When my son left college, I asked him if he wanted to farm and his answer was: “shovelling pig **** wouldn’t look good on my CV”!…
Month: June 2015
Science-led innovation will help the pig sector meet the many challenges it faces, but the answers may not necessarily come from porcine research and development. Delegates…
Tightening pig supplies in recent weeks have helped prices to begin to recover, according to BPEX, although that follows a decline in average pig prices in…
A diagnosis of porcine circovirus 2 (PCV2)-associated reproductive disease was made at Thirsk following submission of several litters of mummified and stillborn piglets delivered at term,…
The issues surrounding antibiotic resistance are to be debated during a public session of next week’s Animal Welfare Foundation’s (AWF) annual discussion forum. Due to be…
Five years before Scottish scientist Sir Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin, he observed the antimicrobial powers of the enzyme lysozyme. And like his best known achievement, there…
Innovation holds the key to improving pig-sector performance and profitability, but with fluctuating feed prices, and a market that’s increasingly constrained by global trading, the challenge…
Europe’s farming leaders have warned that continued European Commission (EC) support may be needed well into 2016 to help the agricultural sector offset the sustained export…
The start today of new transparency rules concerning the public listing of beneficiaries of CAP payments has been welcomed by European farm commissioner, Phil Hogan, as…
Regulatory changes in antibiotic use, an update on PEDv controls and a focus on how rapid-responding vaccines can be used to combat emerging diseases will be…