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A rare opportunity to join a team of 6 on a high performing 740 sow indoor pig breeding farm

Red Tractor scheme members are reminded that the deadline for getting data from second quarter of 2018 onto eMB-Pigs is August 11. 

In the latest edition of Pig World, the NPA's Ed Barker discussed what the latest Brexit developments could mean for the pig sector. 

The latest forum entry is a query about alternatives to straw in outdoor farrowing arks. 

Now that we are in the season of parliamentary recess things in theory have gone a bit quieter in Westminster and Brussels.

If only pig prices were as hot as the weather we would all be much happier although the SPP only moved marginally this week, dropping by 0.08p to 150.26p.

Today China reported its first outbreak of African Swine Fever to the OIE. The outbreak occurred in the Liaoning Province (North East China) in domestic pigs and nine hundred pigs have been culled in an effort to control the disease.

Stewart Houston, a leading figure in the British Pig Industry Support Group and a former chair of NPA and BPEX, looks back on the dramatic events of 20 years ago 

For NPA chairman Richard Longthorp shares his memories of the events of 20 years ago. 

Meat and dairy alternative sales are being driven more by meat-eaters looking to try something new and not vegans