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NPA chief executive Zoe Davies will attend a meeting today involving Defra, APHA, pig producers, vets, scientific experts and AHDB to discuss tail biting.

The pig sector will feel the impact of the current drought on the pig sector most acutely over the coming months.

The importance of effective and appropriate use of antibiotics will be discussed at an event in London in October.

Nearly all visitors to the 2018 British Pig & Poultry Fair rated it as 'good or excellent', according to a survey taken after the event.  

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.