Buyers from the South-west, Kent, East Anglia and the Midlands turned up at for one of the largest sales Peter Crichton has ever conducted when he…
Year: 2014
Demand matched the East Anglian weather on Friday – slightly chilly and dull.Reports of sharp falls in European mainland pig prices did nothing to help on…
Dr Simon Turner, an internationally recognised expert on aggressiveness in farm animals has been awarded a Readership by Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC). His conferment of a…
Pig World editor Graeme Kirk reports from France, where the country’s Institute of Pork (IFIP) is looking at how tailoring a pig’s diet to its sex…
AHDB/BPEX calculations for the spread between farmgate and retail prices for June 2014 indicate a 1% increase in the producer share from the previous month, to…
BPEX is to fund PCR testing of faeces or intestinal contents from outbreaks of diarrhoea in any age of pig on premises in England and Wales…
Red Tractor has published a “What Has Changed” leaflet that lists changes to the organisation’s pig scheme that producers will need to meet from October 2014.…
Red Tractor has completely revamped its farm assurance standards, making them significantly shorter, with simple, easy-to-read content that clearly explains what each standard is, why it’s…
Investment in replacement breeding stock is a significant cost and, according to Stephen Hall of Stephen Hall Management, the future of your business is wrapped up…
Sam Walton visits an East Yorkshire farrow-to-finish unit that has grown seven-fold in the past seven years through a carefully planned and executed expansion strategySome pig…