Cranswick has continued its recent expansion, with the acquisition of the Buckle family’s pig farming and rearing operations, in Yorkshire. The deal includes the family’s 50%…
Month: February 2020
MSD Animal Health has launched what it says is the first intramuscular pig vaccine to control Lawsonia intracellularis, the bacteria which causes Ileitis. Porcilis Lawsonia provides…
AHDB’s pork knowledge exchange (KE) team has been strengthened to add further value to the services offered to levy payers. Jen Waters, who now heads up…
Factory unreliability and uncertainty over the coronavirus outbreak are both affecting the pork market, according to Thames Valley Cambac’s latest pig marketing summary. A ‘not unsubstantial’ number of…
Glenda Montgomery, a hugely respected and much-loved figure across the pig industry who co-founded Ladies in Pigs in 1991, has died at the age of 89.…
Producers, vets and representatives from Government, industry bodies and allied industry companies came together last week to discuss a new long-term ‘pathway’ for health and welfare…
Dennis Bridgeford is based near Easter Ross in Scotland’s Highland region and operates an indoor herd of 550 sows rearing lighter weight finishers of 75kg I…
The pig sector’s position in the debate over food production and climate change was one of the key topics discussed at the ‘Pigs and poultry –…
The Red Tractor deadline for uploading antibiotic data from the fourth quarter of 2019 onto the eMB-Pigs database is February 11. AHDB Pork is reminding producers that, if…
Lisbeth Shooter, executive director, innovation at Danish agricultural research institute SEGES, explains how the Danish pig industry is approaching the forthcoming zinc oxide ban The pig…