How things have changed! I recently found myself reflecting on changes in feeding regimes for piglets during the past two decades, and how the global industry’s…
Month: June 2016
We recently conducted a trial where we wanted to test the amino acid requirements at two different crude protein levels for growing pigs (30 to 110kg).…
After two very comfortable years, the Russian pig industry is entering a harsh period, when dozens of small and medium companies will be pushed out from…
GB sow productivity is continuing to improve although the latest performance figures still show other EU producers doing even better, according to AHDB Pork. Looking at…
A commitment to fight antimicrobial resistance (AMR), including the global phasing out the use of antibiotics as growth promoters in animals, was made by G20 agriculture…
Specially Selected Pork (SSP) was the focus on a new sausage-making world record at the weekend’s Taste of Grampian food festival when Dundee butcher, David Patterson,…
Emma Rose of the Alliance to Save our Antibiotics argues that the intervention of institutional investors in the antibiotics debate shows that the topic has to…
The National Pig Association (NPA) has warned the government that the UK’s “clunky” approach to planning is delaying antibiotic reduction in livestock. “Keeping livestock in new…
Almost a quarter of the GB finishing herd has already signed-up to the industry-backed electronic medicine book (eMB), which was only launched four weeks ago to…
World meat production is forecast to stagnate this year at about 321 million tonnes with pigmeat production heading for a marginal decline, according the latest Food…