Making the most of pig levy revenue
It’s five years since the AHDB set up its offices at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire, and took control of the UK’s agricultural levy bodies. Pig World editor Graeme Kirk recently sat down with BPEX...
View ArticleA fairer way to trade pigs
Anglia Quality Meat Association (AQM), which started life as a pork-marketing group in the mid-1960s, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Pig World’s Graeme Kirk has been to the...
View ArticleThree hours from farm to chiller
Having previously looked at Karro Foods’ weaner operation in Scotland’s Highland Region, Pig World editor Graeme Kirk takes a look at the Yorkshire end of the set-up, as the pigs move from...
View ArticleEating quality – the forgotten end of the supply chain
JSR’s director of meat science, Caroline Mitchell, who also heads the JSR Food Quality Centre, says it’s time to start thinking more about the eating quality if we want to attract more consumers to...
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Precision farming for the pig sector
Agricultural supply companies are like any other business in that they’re always looking for new products that their customers might need. By diversifying and moving into new areas, they can hopefully...
View ArticleRSPCA Assured begins TV advertising campaign
An advert to promote RSPCA Assured, that features the voice of actor John Hurt, will be shown appear on TV screens from this week. It wil be shown on Channel 4 – during episodes of Sunday Brunch – and...
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Selling the right pigs at the right time helps maximise income
We know that the pig industry will continue to experience difficult trading conditions for some time to come, so we must look again at our businesses with a critical eye and ask ourselves if we’re...
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The quality of life and product
Pig consultant Stephen Hall considers if our current production methods help or hinder meat quality, and whether there’s a place for a boar-taint vaccine in our finishing systems In November last year,...
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Engaging with consumers is vital to future of the pig industry
This year’s Open Farm Sunday on June 5th will see hundreds of farms all over the country open their gates to the public. Since it began in 2006, 1.6 million people have visited a farm on Open Farm...
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Forthright views, but few conclusions
Jane Jordan reports from this year’s MSD Animal Heath/Pig World Round Table meeting that sought to debate whether the GB’s pig price premium was justified and sustainable The 2016 Round Table...
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“Improvac is the right thing to do”
Pig World editor Graeme Kirk visits a European farrow-to-finish unit that’s using the boar taint vaccine Improvac and wouldn’t consider moving back to surgical castration As far as Belgian pig...
View ArticleLeadsom seeks to reassure pig industry over Brexit concerns
Food and farming will be at the centre of negotiations as the UK carves out a new future outside the EU, Defra Secretary Andrea Leadsom has promised the industry. Her primary official duty at the SIAL...
View ArticleCould the UK pig sector benefit from a post-Brexit animal health and welfare...
The post-Brexit UK livestock industry should be an ‘exemplar’ to the rest of the world when it comes to animal health and welfare, according to Defra Ministers. There is little doubt ‘Britishness’, and...
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SIAL 2016 review: boom times for British pork
It is a good time to be a British pork exporter and, for that matter, a British pig farmer. That was the clear message from the floor of SIAL, the world’s biggest food trade fair, based on a...
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SIAL 2016 review: “I am trying to put a union jack on everything”
British meat traders at SIAL were bullish about the market and the strength of the British brand, with mixed views on what Brexit might hold. But there was an air of concern among our EU neighbours...
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Danes target growth – how the Danish pig industry is gearing up to secure...
Efficiency continues to drive the Danish pig sector, and this year’s Herning Congress produced clear indications that welfare, antibiotic-free production and achieving greater stability in its...
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AHDB culture is key to delivering strategy
It has been a busy two years for Meryl Ward. She departs her role as chair of AHDB Pork’s board reflecting on significant progress achieved during her time in charge, but also on what AHDB needs to do...
View ArticleThe global perspective – more Pigs 2022 speakers unveiled
Never have the fortunes of the UK and EU pig producer been more tied-in to the ups and downs of the global marketplace than they are today. For the UK, this is only going to become more pronounced as...
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Making a meal of midweek dinners – AHDB Pork unveils new marketing campaign
AHDB Pork will hit television screens again this autumn and is set to position pork loin medallions firmly in the mind of the family cook as the perfect choice for a midweek meal. Following the...
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Opening up to share new ideas
The idea was simple enough. Lock five teams of data programmers and coders in a room for the two days of Nutreco’s AgriVision 2017 conference in the Netherlands, give them access to some high level...
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