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The winner of the 2012 Oxford Farming Conference (OFC)/ Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) Practice with Science Award sponsored by AB Agri, has been won by PiGIS, a pig grading information system established in Northern Ireland (NI) by the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) and CAFRE.

Cold fronts are forecast for February bringing foundering feet to farmers in milking parlours and on quad bikes.

He will provide leadership to the IMPROVEST team and be responsible for outreach to customers, retailers and industry stakeholders.

With confidence returning to the Scottish pig industry, an Aberdeenshire pig farmer has invested £50,000 in new solid-floored straw-based finishing house to produce 1,000 plus pigs a year at Kingshornie, Inverbervie.

C. Larry Pope, Smithfield Foods' president and chief executive officer, was recently recognized as a Top 100 thought leader in trustworthy business behavior by Trust Across America.

Pork producers now have a worry-free solution to help them continue their track record of producing safe, wholesome pork.

East Africa’s growing human population and rapid urbanization are creating new opportunities for small-scale farmers to make money from pig farming.

Consumer packaged foods giant inks multiyear partnership with NASCAR's first family.

A weak area on many pig farms, particularly in cold weather, can be where all the doses needed for the morning’s services are taken out and left by the pen.

Full focus on synergies and a much closer cooperation between the companies of the group shall empower Skiold to become one of the leading suppliers internationally of technical solutions for grain handling, feed production, and pig production.

Ufac-UK has appointed First Fil-Bio I/E Corporation, as their sole distributor in the Philippines.

With high-priced feed accounting for the major cost of production, it is important to test the females in all lines, as well as the males, since they contribute 50 per cent of the genetics to the next generation.

PIC has completed delivery of 1,071 high health breeding pigs from the USA to key account Gvardia in the Stavropol Region of Russia.

Pig producers packed a ‘Securing the Future’ seminar in Cookstown to discuss how best they to take those opportunities 2012 and the years beyond.

As guest speaker at the ‘Securing the Future’ seminar for Ulster pig producers Jim Power warned that the euro crisis and global recession will impact on UK agriculture even though this is one of the few industries still growing across the British Isles.

Pig and pig feed price fluctuations are largely beyond the control of producers, who can however keep on improving livestock performance, not least at the weaner stage.

Feed prices may well drift back this spring at a time when pig prices are likely to firm producers at the ‘Securing the Future’ seminar were told by Aidan O’Toole of Devenish Nutrition.

University of Queensland post-graduate, Larissa Beale, has been awarded Pork CRC Best Presentation at the 2011 13th Biennial Conference of the Australasian Pig Science Association (APSA) Conference.

The new agreement, to stock and maintain a new 2,500 sow GP unit growing to 5,000 sows, reflects SMFI’s increasing requirement for PIC’s healthy, superior breeding stock to produce quality pork for the Monterey meatshops.

The Thai rat-catcher is paid around £1 more per kg — about 125 baht (£2.50) per kg liveweight, compared with around £1.50 live paid to British pig farmers for their pigs who are currently losing money on every pig produced.

TOPIGS has imported 500 top breeding pigs into China. This second successful import comes just one month after a first import of 1000 pigs.

Russian dignitaries, local press and national TV, gathered at the official opening of the Delimeat Farming Complex, a 3,000 sow nucleus herd stocked by JSR Genetics, to celebrate a future full of promise.

Having cutting the edge technology and state of the art agricultural machinery makes possible to move forward to get greater efficiency rates. It also allows the increase of the energetic performance of resources such as biomass or biofuels.

TOPIGS will soon start selecting finisher boars which have less risk of breeding offspring with boar taint.