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The latest phase of AHDB's Midweek Meals campaign resulted in almost £12 million of additional pork sales, according to data from Kantar Worldpanel.

Global pork prices will soar over the next few years on the back of Asia’s ‘incredible' African swine fever crisis’, according to Gira analyst Richard Brown.

The comments continue to come in on the price situation. "If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck," the latest one suggests.

ASF has been confirmed at a slaughterhouse in Hong Kong, but plans to cull about 6,000 pigs have been hampered by meat traders, according to reports.

Pig producers have been having their say on the NPA forum about the current price situation. 

We have an important update in the Members' Area regarding animal rights activism. 

The Red Tractor deadline for uploading antibiotic data for the first quarter of 2019 onto the eMB-Pigs database is May 12.

The NPA is to press for a pig supply chain code of conduct as part of a drive to introduce more transparency in the supply chain.

Scientists have published details of research showing 'promising' signs that a vaccine could be developed to help stem the spread of ASF in wild boar.  

Defra Chief Veterinary Officer Christine Middlemiss has endorsed the NPA-inspired #MuckFreeTruck campaign.