What a fantastic weekend! At the Royal Berkshire County Show my sow, Kilcot Mermaid, has just won everything she was entered for! It started with the…
Year: 2016
Pig price is as usual sliding, now down to $3.50/kg (£1.95kg) due to the slipping pound. The real reason is revealed quite blatantly by the buyers:…
In my last endeavour writing this comment, I advocated the importance of feeding our high calibre new born entrants correctly; their colossal innate and efficient growth…
Today it has finally rained. In our little corner of the country it has been the driest harvest for a decade and it has made the…
Harvest is normally a time I really look forward to. This year was no exception until we started to wind up the machinery. Combine not a…
One undisputed benefit of the Brexit vote is the ability to rip up the current Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) model and start all over again. Let’s…
Some readers may recall that I have previously mentioned a project where the aim is to reduce feed usage in Danish pig herds. This project is…
BBC’s Countryfile recently showed research being done to find out whether pigs were regressive or progressive. They put individual pigs into a confined space with an…
The continued focus on the ever-increasing resistance to antibiotics and the need to reduce in-feed use of medication, should encourage us to examine all potential ways…
It’s been pretty full on since I last wrote. Can I point out that completing a triathlon with ‘zero hours’ training is not to be recommended?…