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A Mexican pork industry delegation to the UK was impressed with it saw and keen to do business, according to the visit organisers.

Cranswick has announced the £43.5m acquisition of a Mediterranean food products business, as it continues to deliver 'encouraging' trading results.

Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales (HCC) and Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) are the latest organisations to join RUMA.

You could say it has been an eventful 72 hours, Ed observes as he rounds up the first few days of the Boris era. 

African swine fever has been confirmed in Slovakia for the first time, near the border with Hungary. 

George Eustice is back at Defra only a few months after quitting his Ministerial role at the Department in protest at the Government’s Brexit policy.

The UK pig market continues to be ‘dire’, although there is hope things will pick up in the second half of the year as Chinese demand is predicted to increase.

Pig producers and allied industry companies are being urged to consider taking on a pig industry scholar under an industry initiative promoting careers in the sector.

Former Norhern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers has replaced Michael Gove as Defra Secretary. 

The UK pig industry is well-known for taking a proactive approach to welfare across the wide variety of production systems we have, particularly when it comes to farrowing.