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She said M&S sold pork from pigs bred in farrowing crates which cause distress to the animals. Ms Mills said most UK supermarkets stocked pork from animals bred in farrowing crates but she chose to highlight M&S because of the chain's high-profile stance on animal welfare issues. Ms Mills joined animal rights activists from the Viva! campaign group to video farrowing crates at a Somerset pig farm earlier this month. The piglets were feeding off their mothers in these horrific farrowing...

Producers have marketed most of their 2006 production limiting the effect of further price movements on the weighted season-average farm price. Food, seed, and industrial use is unchanged this month, despite a small increase in seed use, based on producer planting intentions reported in the Prospective Plantings report. Changes in world exports and imports are also nearly offsetting; however, major export changes include 1-million-ton reductions for both Canada and EU-25 and 0. Global...

Smithfield's pending buyout of Premium Standard Farms, the nation's second-largest pork producer, could change that amicable relationship. In addition to contract farmers, small, independent growerssome of them already in lucrative, yet risky, niche pork marketscould also find their options sharply limited. Although Smithfield's existing contract farmers, such as Lane, would likely see no immediate change in their agreements, farmers would have little or no leverage to negotiate....

Entries have risen year on year at the three day farming showcase which attracts competitors from across Britain. The cattle shown are amongst the finest in the country - one of the sections where we have increased prize money is in the Commercial Beef where we now offer the highest amount of any show for the Supreme and Reserve (a total of 550) We believe that ensuring the show remains true to its farming roots underpins its popularity. Over the last decade or so, our entry figures have...