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China's New Pig Farmers Aim To Ride Out Boom-Bust Cycle

China's huge hog sector is struggling with excess production after millions of small, often first-time, pig farmers entered the industry to capitalise on r...

Kaufland Celebrates Five Years Of Quality Meat Programme

German retailer Kaufland is celebrating five years of own quality meat programme, launched in October 2016. Since then, the company along with its contr...

Butcher Shortage In Britain Could Lead To Mass Culling Of Pigs

Britain's farming industry has warned that hundreds of thousands of pigs may have to be culled within weeks unless the government issues visas to allow mor...

France's Avril Plans To Sell Two Pork Firms To Bigard Group

French agri-food group Avril has said that it is in exclusive talks with meat group Bigard to sell its majority stakes in pork processing companies Abera a...

Delhaize Belgium Launches Additional Support Programme For Pig Farmers

Delhaize Belgium is set to launch an additional support programme for its pig farmers in a bid to ease pressure on the group resulting from current ma...

Cherkizovo Group Secures Funding For Production Facility In Tula

Gazprombank and Cherkizovo Group have signed a loan agreement to finance the construction of a high-tech automated production facility for slaughtering pig...

REWE Group Raises Guaranteed Minimum Price For Pig Farmers

Germany's REWE Group has announced that it will increase its minimum price payments for pig farmers in September. At the end of 2020, the company had al...