And so onto my last column before passing the baton back to Zoë on her return. Our chairman Richard Longthorp and I have embarked on our…
Month: April 2014
Jane Jordan explores the history of Rattlerow Farms, which celebrates its diamond anniversary this yearIt was another reasonably positive day for sellers despite the DAPP easing…
A train to Norwich, a bicycle ride to Stradbroke to buy a farm and a night locked out for being home late. This was Philip Lawson’s…
Stephen Hall considers the value of data to a pig production business and explains how to calculate total herd FCR, one of the sector’s key measures…
I believe this is my 323rd column since the first edition of Pig World came out in June 1987. Quite honestly it seems like yesterday, and…
There’s one thing in my job that’s certain: no two days are ever the same and there’s a challenge around every corner. CAP reform, we’d hoped,…
This is turning out to be an interesting year. Despite the supply of cereals and soya exceeding demand (according to the USDA), we have issues with…
Merial Animal Health is urging pig farmers to consider vaccination against swine influenza following an announcement by the AHVLA at the end of 2013 that there…
There USDA has reported that there were 62.9 million pigs on US farms on March 1 this year, the lowest number since 2007.According to the organisation’s…
The Netherlands-based Rabobank has published a report estimating the effect of the ongoing outbreak of PEDv on the US pig industry will result in a 9%…