I sometimes get a bit of ribbing for my globetrotting activities. The truth is that I had hardly been anywhere until I reached my 30s, at…
Month: July 2018
NPA recently took a small group of Young NPA members to Scotland for what turned out to be an informative and fun couple of days. The…
A new agreement has been signed between AHDB and Defra setting out how AHDB could develop a new multi-species livestock traceability service for England. The initiative…
The deadline for entries to this year’s National Pig Awards has been extended to Friday, July 13, so there is still time to get your submission…
Farmers shouldn’t panic but need to be more realistic about their piggery ventilation management during the heat-wave conditions that Britain has been experiencing, according to an…
The recent hot weather does not seem to have adversely affected pig performance, in fact this week it may suggest quite the opposite, says this week’s…
Møllevang, one of Denmark’s leading pig breeding companies, and PIC, the global leader in swine genetics, have announced that the two companies have entered into a…
The private company set to take on the role of carcase grading from AHDB has sought to reassure pig producers that it is not planning to…
The CO2 shortage, which thrust the pig industry into the headlines at the end of June, came out of nowhere. While the expectation is that disruption…
The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) has reiterated its warnings to pig keepers to take all steps possible to keep African swine fever (ASF) out…