The latest Pig World Veterinary View comment on a very topical subject comes from Christina Huelsmann-Diamond, who joined Garth Pig Practice Ltd in 2017. She is…
Month: February 2018
A new campaign is highlighting how the ‘liquid gold’ properties of colostrum can play a key role in reducing the need for antibiotics in farm animals…
The NPA Producer Group has set out its Brexit priorities to Defra officials. The group had some clear message for the Government when two Defra officials spent a…
The new year has been interesting in policy terms – starting with Michael Gove’s speech at the Oxford Farming Conference. In it, he affirmed the Government’s…
Building foundations and diet consistency are as important in piglet feeding as daily liveweight gain (DLWG) and feed intake, especially in light of the requirement for…
Last weekend saw the third reunion of my Challenge of Rural Leadership course up in Elgin, Scotland. We were fortunate to be hosted by one of…
Clean pig throughputs were 2% higher than year earlier levels during Q4 2017, totalling 2.7 million head. This increase in throughputs was slightly larger than anticipated…
The NPA has called on the Environment Agency (EA) to shelve its ‘damaging’ plans to significantly increase environmental permit charges. The agency is proposing to increase permit variation…
Farmers could reduce their feed and energy costs while improving growth rates, thanks to an updated handbook from the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB). The…