United Kingdom
With a new presidential administration set to take over leadership this month, USMEF sees opportunities with current and new trade partners.
In October 2023, Arkansas became the first state to ban foreign-owned farmland. More states look to adopt similar laws, but one policy expert says the issue is rooted in politics and warns of unintended consequences.
“In this current situation, the traditional approach to free trade agreements — which isn’t just tariff cuts, but that they do tariff cuts on a fully comprehensive basis — isn’t what we need right now,” Tai says.
Two sisters running a pig farm in northeast England have a message for Prime Minister Johnson: lift strict immigration rules for butchers or risk seeing the pork sector collapse under the weight of overly heavy animals.
Britain’s pig industry said it faces collapse after an exodus of east European workers led to a shortage of butchers and a backlog in slaughtering more than 170,000 pigs.
Is British bacon different from American bacon? And if so, why? That’s just one of the questions answered in this light-hearted glide show about a trip abroad to the United Kingdom by one of the Pork staff.
The popular plant-based beverage, Oatly, has recently been told to not repeat some of its ‘misleading’ advertisements in the United Kingdom.
British pig farmers have reduced their carbon footprint by almost 40% over the last 20 years, according to a new study led by the Institute of Global Food Security at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland.
The hit television show and book series Game of Thrones has more connections to agriculture than one would think for a fantasy series that features dragons and ice zombies.