News
22nd Apr 2020
Members Area COVID-19 updates - webinar and key issues document
The Members' Area has been updated with the latest information on COVID-19 and more.
22nd Apr 2020
Members Area alert - update on Red Tractor remote inspections
We have posted some new information on Red Tractor's remote inspection regime in the Members' Area.
22nd Apr 2020
Environment Agency sets out its approach to regulation during coronavirus
The Environment Agency has told the NPA that it has sopped routine farm inspections, but officers will still investigate serious pollution incidents
21st Apr 2020
Mike Sheldon to continue as AHDB Pork chair
Mike Sheldon has been reappointed by UK Ministers for a second term as chair of AHDB’s pork sector board.
21st Apr 2020
Bayer launches new innovation grant initiative
Bayer Animal Health has launched a global ‘Care4Pigs’ grant initiative to ‘help the industry turn innovative ideas for advancing pig wellbeing into a reality’.
21st Apr 2020
Update on the COVID-19 Self-employment Income Support Scheme
The Government has published an update on how self-employed people can claim COVID-19 support grants.
20th Apr 2020
Urgent call for overalls to help battle against COVID-19
Pig producers and the allied industries are being urged to donate any fluid resistant gowns they might have in their possession to help the battle against coronavirus.
20th Apr 2020
Members Area alert - abattoir incident
The latest post in the Members' Area concerns an incident that occurred at an abattoir on Sunday.
18th Apr 2020
Waiting on the World to Change
Although the SPP eased this week by 0.26p to stand at 163.63p, demand for spot pigs proved to be a shade firmer than previously with spot bacon prices around the 165p/kg mark.
17th Apr 2020
NPA calls for 'sensible, phased approach' to Red Tractor remote inspection roll out
The NPA has urged Red Tractor to adopt a 'sensible, phased approach' to the introduction of remote inspections.