Cranswick has donated £5,000 towards Ladies in Pigs’ (LIPs) educational programme, which will ensure that 2,000 more children ...

Popular UK restaurants have menus almost entirely made of imported meat. They are reportedly failing to support British ...

Defra has confirmed that it is being forced to temporarily close some capital grant offers to new applications, due to budget ...

Scotland’s feral pigs are being monitored for African swine fever (ASF), in an initiative led by the country’s nature agency, ...

“Better than a BAFTA,” was how Jeremy Clarkson described winning the Innovation of the Year Award at last week’s National Pig ...

Cranswick has been growing its pig herd for some time, and this continued through ‘ongoing organic investment’ and the acquisition of the 4,000-sow herd from a long-standing existing supplier of RSPCA ...

NFU president Tom Bradshaw has met privately with prime minister Sir Keir Starmer to discuss farmers’ concerns over the ‘family farm tax’, after an NFU petition calling for it to be dropped was signed ...

AHDB has begun the search for a new chair, after Nicholas Saphir announced he was standing down from the role at the end of March 2025. Mr Saphir was originally appointed to serve a three-year term in ...

UK pig slaughterings and pork production remain well ahead of last year, according to Defra’s latest UK slaughter statistics. UK clean pig slaughterings in October were up 8.9% on October 2023 at ...

The Treasury is considering changes to its inheritance tax reforms for farmers, in the wake of the backlash to Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Budget announcement, according to the Guardian. It says the ...

Retail pigmeat purchases declined by 3.2% year on year, equivalent to 6,650 tonnes, in the 12 weeks to November 3, Kantar data shows. As a result, retail spend on pigmeat was down by 2.0% year-on-year ...