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9th Sep 2019

HealthWelfare

We need your views on lorry washing facilities


Have you been to the abattoir or market lately? If so we want to hear what the lorry washing facilities were like.

6th Sep 2019

Environment

'We have a responsibility to source soya responsibly'


Progress is being made across the supply chain to source soya more responsibly, but there is still some way to go. 

6th Sep 2019

NPANews

Farm activism - important message to members


Members are asked to click through to the members' area of the website to view an important message from the NPA. 

6th Sep 2019

Brussels

UK to adopt EU standards post-Brexit - Defra Minister


The UK will take on all EU food safety, environmental and animal welfare standards on leaving the EU, a Defra Minister has revealed. 

5th Sep 2019

Brussels

Brexit latest - what exactly is going on?


Events continue to move at a bewildering pace in Westminster. Here we try and summarise what it all means.

5th Sep 2019

Brussels

Communicating with the next generation of consumers


Tom Martin, better known as Farmer Tom, urges pig producers to get involved in an initiative that connects farmers to the next generation of consumers

4th Sep 2019

HealthWelfare

End the cage debate postponed - but members urged to continue contacting MPs


The debate on Compassion in World Farming’s ‘end the cage age’ petition, which includes a call to ban farrowing crates, has been postponed. 

4th Sep 2019

HealthWelfare

Record pork prices in China to fuel further export demand


Record pig prices, as African swine fever hits domestic supplies, are set to fuel further pork import demand from China, according Rabobank.

4th Sep 2019

Brussels

NPA backs calls calls for post-Brexit standards commission


The NPA has backed calls by the NFU for the Government to put in place a commission to uphold production standards after we leave the EU. 

3rd Sep 2019

Prices

Pig prices continue to disappoint... but our time is coming


UK pig prices continued to disappoint during August, but there are encouraging signs of better times ahead.