Year: 2014

German pig equipment specialist WEDA Dammann & Westerkamp has developed a new kind of manipulable material for piglets and fattening pigs in cooperation with Kassel University.…

Due to the continued demand for Paneltim plastic panels for piggeries, Suffolk-based equipment supplier and manufacturer Quality Equipment has invested more than £75,000 in a new…

This is the full text of the article on Dr Amy Taylor’s pig nutrition PhD project that appeared in the January 2014 issue of Pig World,…

Final figures from Defra’s June 2013 Agricultural Survey show the UK’s pig herd figure has been revised upwards. BPEX’s Pig Market Weekly reports that the change…

Figures published by BPEX for November 2013 show that overall pigmeat production was higher than the same month in 2012 despite fewer pigs being slaughtered.The number…

Contrary to the article on page six of the January 2014 issue of Pig World, on-farm training on euthanising pigs of any size can be carried…

The Farm Specific Diet (FSD) concept is based on the truism that every pig farm is different, writes John Gadd. Moreover even on the same farm…