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The welcome processor price increases announced a week ago are likely to have come too late to feed into that week’s SPP.

The UK has secured a new pork export deal with Chile worth an estimated £20 million over the first five years.

The next #BiteIntoBritish promotion will take place at an Aldi store in the town of Hessle in East Yorkshire on Thursday.

Cranswick has today increased its weekly price by 16p in what it says is a response to soaring producer costs of production. 

The NPA is calling on retailers to significantly increase the price they pay for their pork to save the British pig industry from total collapse.

The NPA highlighted the pig industry's disastrous situation at a parliamentary reception this week.

The January AHDB Porkwatch showed relatively healthy overall support for fresh British pork, but, as always, there is plenty of room for improvement.

Levy payers have until the end of this month to register to entitle you vote on AHDB's future priorities - and, indirectly, the size of the levy. 

The first follow-up meeting to the February 10 pig industry crisis summit took place on Thursday, to specifically assess the backlog situation.

Defra has launched a 'informal consultation' on proposed amendments to disease control measures for ASF in England.