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,…
Year: 2016
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…
British agriculture is entering a critical time, with farmers facing an increasingly challenging environment for food production says National Farmers Union (NFU) president Meurig Raymond. Stating…
A pig feed survey has been launched by the National Pig Association (NPA) to gather hard facts and figures on what producers are paying. “Everyone else…