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The Co-operative has pledged to source all its own-label meat, including frozen and processed products from British farmers from 2018.

Cranswick posted a significant growth in revenue in the last financial year, following its acquisition of Dunbia Ballymena.

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has issued advice to consumers about cooking pork, following the recent media reports about hepatitis E.

The Chilean pork sector has made a significant further move into the global marketplace, from the Danes.

NPA vice chairman Richard Longthorp has posted an entry on the forum urging members to get in touch with their Parliamentary candidates. 

The share of pork retail prices received by producers reached its highest level since July 2014 in April, climbing by more than 1% to reach 41.8%.

The NPA has responded to media reports on the link between human infection with the hepatitis E virus and eating pork. 

Prices are continuing on their upward track with no red ink in sight, although we have yet to scale the dizzy heights reached in November 2013.

There were plenty of points of interest for the pig industry in the Conservative manifesto, launched yesterday in Halifax by Prime Minister Theresa May. 

The volume of meat exports from Brazil has fallen in the wake of the meat scandal that hit the country in March.