Defra has announced plans to streamline regulation relating to agricultural pollution, as it published the Water White Paper, hailed as the ‘biggest overhaul to water in…
Month: January 2026
Defra’s latest UK slaughter statistics have highlighted a significant year-on-year increase in pork production in December, driven largely by soaring cracase weights, as the UK pigmeat…
DanBred delivers genetics worldwide with the purpose of ‘producing more pork for less cost’. It focuses on targeted breeding, which it says forms the foundation for…
The background for Hendrix Genetics Swine is one of innovation, authenticity and progress, built on a strong heritage, according to Andrew Lunn, the company’s UK project…
Permitted pig farms are reminded that they must complete retrospective nitrogen and phosphorus reporting for 2025 by the end of February. If you’re a permit holder,…
Founded in 1982 in East Yorkshire by John Sykes Rymer, JSR Genetics began as JSR Healthbred, supplying robust boars and gilts to local farmers, and soon…
Defra and the Welsh Government have confirmed their intention to permit the feeding of pig protein to poultry and poultry protein to pigs – but any…
According to PIC, genetic improvement for all companies revolves around four key principles – large and diverse populations, measuring what you want to improve, using the…
Pig farmers in Catalonia have lost more than €60 million so far, as a result of the African swine fever outbreak in the Spanish state, according…
Rattlerow Farms is one of the largest, longest-established, Âprivately owned and fully Âindependent pig genetics Âbusinesses in Europe. For more than 70 years, the company has…