Overview of This Week's Pig Industry News

ANALYSIS – A few heavy rain showers on the first day of the British Pig & Poultry Fair last week were the only things to dampen seriously the mood at the event, held last week at the National Agricultural Centre, reports senior editor, Jackie Linden.
While feed ingredient prices remain high and the state of the wider economy is making business difficult for the sector, there was some good news over an upturn in pig prices and there is uptapped potential for the industry in food service.
Furthermore, the UK agriculture minister has reached agreement with the Chinese government for China to resume imports of pig meat and breeding pigs from the UK.
calendar icon 21 May 2012
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