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The value of pigmeat produced in the UK rose by £230 million to £1,329 million, a 21% rise, on the back of higher prices in 2017, the latest Defra farm income estimates show.

An influential committee of MPs has echoed many of the NPA’s concerns over potential future UK trading arrangements with the US after we leave the EU.

The NPA has met with farming organisations from both sides of the Irish border to discuss the importance of maintaining cross-border trade in pigs.

The NPA has expressed ‘real concern’ at the impact on primary producers of the proposed merger between Sainsbury’s and Asda.

Uncertainty in global markets, including the impact of the China-US trade dispute, will create opportunities and challenges for the pork industry. 

NPA vice chairman Rob Mutimer told Parliamentarians the pig sector does not want to be left behind the result of the world as a result of delays in the Brexit process. 

African swine fever has been reported in wild boar in Hungary for the first time, outside the ASF detection zone in place in the country.

The number of cases of African swine fever in Eastern Europe has increased significantly in the first few months of 2018. 

In an article on the Farmers Guardian's Brexit Hub, the NPA's Ed Barker looks at the question of whether a hard Brexit could benefit the UK pig industry.  

The NPA is urging members to engage in what it has described as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the pig sector to shape its own future.