These aren’t my words, but that was the question posed recently by the president of a North American pig-breeding company. In one of his company’s recent…
Month: December 2015
So, with prices continuing to drop and general depression around the market, NPA has done what it does best and come out fighting. As I’ve said…
The traditional supply chains in the countries of the post-Soviet Union block have been largely unaffected by last year’s Russian embargo, but other factors have been…
Genesus, the renowned Canadian pig breeding company, has been sending out fortnightly emails for almost a year now. They contain lots of facts and figures about…
Acids are a vital component in pig diets, but do we really appreciate their crucial role, where they come from, and what they do? Possibly not,…
It’s been a busy few months… and since my last column, as many of you will be aware, my job role has changed and I’m pleased…
Production diseases are costly to pig farms, but exactly how costly? To answer this question, the PROHEALTH project has conducted an extensive literature analysis to establish…
Ceva Animal Health launched its new Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (M hyo) vaccine, Hyogen, into the European market in September as part of the company’s strategy to fight…
The fast food chain, McDonald’s, is to be investigated by the European Commission (EC) as part of a “formal probe” into Luxembourg’s tax treatment of the…
Retail sales of pork continued to fall during the 12 weeks to November 8, with 560,000 fewer shoppers buying than a year earlier, according to AHDB…