Despite all the warnings earlier in the year from processors and “Beware the Ides of March”, prices have started to improve as numbers get tighter.Although the…
Month: March 2014
The head of Russia’s veterinary watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor, Sergey Dankvert, and the CEO of the European Commission’s (EC) Directorate-General for Health and Consumer Protection, Paola Testori Koji,…
The US arm of Boehringer Ingelheim has announced three grants totalling £45,000 as part of its Advancement in PRRS Research Awards bringing the company’s investment in…
New figures produced by AHDB market intelligence put the average per-capita pig meat consumption in the UK at 24.1kg carcase weight equivalent in 2013. Calculated based…
Data collected by BPEX shows that the share of the pork retail price received by producers in February 2014 was marginally lower than January, although in…
Ryan Noble (pictured) has joined the pig team at marketing group Meadow Quality to represent customers in the North and North-east.Mr Noble’s passion for pigs started…
I did say my next column could be commenting on a completely different landscape, and I wasn’t wrong. It’s been a busy few weeks, with NPA…
It’s not only the pigs that have improved during the past 60 years or so; for nearly half that time Pig World has been reporting on…
Aggression is a feature on many pig farms, both in the rearing and breeding herd, and the cause of significant economic loss as well as great…
LED lighting is not altogether new, but there are many new developments that are exciting for the pig industry, writes Sam Walton.John Matchman of Agri Lamp…