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Global UK pork sales increased by 14% as UK food and drink exports reached £22 billion in 2017, a new record.

Pig producers wishing to put themselves forward for AHDB's Strategic Farm programme now have just a few days to do so. 

Thirty-six organisations representing the UK’s food and farming industry, including the NPA, have issued a joint Brexit statement. 

Producers are reminded that antibiotic data for the fourth quarter of 2017 must be uploaded onto the eMB-Pigs database by February 11. 

Although the SPP edged down by a gnat’s crochet, losing 0.03p to stand at 146.8p/kg, European mainland prices are painting a somewhat brighter picture.

If proof were needed that we really are lurching from one position to another, then this week is it.

The BBC has put the spotlight on African Swine Fever (ASF), which is currently spreading across large parts of Europe.

A Suffolk pig keeper has received a suspended prison sentence after admitting to the mistreatment of his pigs at a farm in east Suffolk.

The use of antibiotics in US pig farming is twice as high as in the UK, according to the Alliance to Save our Antibiotics.

Global pork supply is forecast to increase further in the first quarter 2018, mainly driven by the US, Canada, and Brazil.