The emergence of a pig disease in Canada which resembles foot-and-mouth has prompted the NPA to warn UK importers to take extra precautions before sourcing pigs…
Month: October 2016
The latest short-term outlook from the European Commission (EC) shows pigmeat exports to China are expected to reach a record 2.7 million tonnes this year, according…
One year on from calling off their planned merger, the Danish meat companies, Danish Crown and Tican, are set to go to arbitration over a claim…
The development of a further price reduction in EU pig prices this week is “extremely disappointing” says the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA). Noting that the latest…
Ian Smith has been Patrick Dean’s unit manager at The Old Rocket Site, just south of Lincoln, for 18 years. He has seen many changes in…
The UK pig industry is an ‘exemplar’ for other industries at home and abroad and should have little to fear from the drive to reduce antibiotic…
Bovine TB (bTB) in pigs is a relatively small problem, statistically speaking, when compared with the vast scale of Britain’s TB problem in cattle. Yet for…
Georgina and I have been in the Hague, Holland for three days soaking up plenty of information about global antibiotic use in livestock, so here is…
As we all know, the routes to a career in the pig sector are many and varied, but the story of Darren Kent’s introduction to our…
The farrowing crate has long been a staple of the global pig industry, providing the dual services to pig producers of being efficient on space and…