It’s fair to say that kilos of pigs produced per sow is probably at its most critical at the moment. Low pig prices focus attention on…
Month: January 2016
Like many other people at this time of year, I’ve been spending some quality time with my family. In fact, I’ve spent quite a bit of…
Where do the years go? Seems like no time at all that we were hoping for a better year for once, and here we are again,…
By the time you read this, 2016 will be upon us and we’ll all hopefully face the New Year renewed and refreshed after having had some…
I continue where I left off last time by returning to the topic of PRRS. No sooner had I discussed the “damage” a cure for PRRS…
PRRS, which arrived in the UK more than 20 years ago, remains a debilitating disease due to the two-pronged attack it wields on both sow productivity…
Ask a pig producer about their current performance and you’re likely to get figures on numbers born, numbers weaned or pigs per sow per year. While…
Eight years ago I began to explore the application of process control in pig production, writes Stephen Hall of Stephen Hall Management. This followed a conversation…
EU farm commissioner, Phil Hogan, has welcomed the opening today of a new Private Storage Aid (PSA) scheme for the pigmeat sector, commenting that he hopes…
A new electronic medicines book for pigs – eMB-Pigs – has been developed to help producers take their medicine recording into the 21st century, simplifying the…