Caroline Stocks reports on the four-step plan to help stay on top of this worrying viral disease. It’s the most costly pig disease around the world, costing…
Year: 2018
Red Robin, our producer and industry insider, explains how they are coping with the prolonged summer heatwave – and made a surprising zinc discovery. A very…
The livestock sector will unite behind the development of a “game-changing” digital data system which could prove central to post-Brexit prospects. An agreement with Defra for…
Demand for animal protein and increasing wealth fuelled a tripling in the domestic production of livestock in China between 1980 and 2010, and the rise, despite…
Future outbreaks of foot-and-mouth (FMD) disease can be combatted quickly and efficiently from early on – when authorities have minimal information – thanks to a new…
Farmers will benefit from new flexibility in water abstraction rules and the ability to trade water between farms to cope with the impacts of the ongoing…
Fiona Bennett has been a veterinary surgeon at Garth Pig Practice, based in East Yorkshire, since October 2016 having qualified from Liverpool University Writing this in…
So, when Alistair asked me for my reflections on pig industry ‘activity’ back in 1998, my immediate reaction was: “I can barely remember what happened yesterday!”,…
Stewart Houston, a leading figure in the British Pig Industry Support Group and a former chair of NPA and BPEX, looks back on the dramatic events…
The judging panel has started its deliberations ahead of the 2018 National Pig Awards and we’ve signed up one of the UK’s most respected broadcasters for…