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Truly Irish and Key Partners take on future of Irish Pig Industry

Truly Irish Country Foods are behind a recent drive towards more sustainable agriculture in Europe which has led to the development of a €1.68 million EU funded group called ‘THRIVE RITE’.

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Abel & Cole Organic Pig Farms

A visit to our pig farmers - Laverstoke Park Farm in Hampshire and Childhay Manor Farm on the Salisbury Plains. An example of high animal welfare!

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European Union: Prospects for Agricultural Markets and Income in the EU 2012-2020

Pig meat is expected to remain the preferred meat in the EU with 40.8 kg/capita consumption in 2022.

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Italy: founding of the biggest Italian swine producers' organization

The merger of Opas and Assocom will lead to the creation of GSP (Gruppo Suinicoltori Padani), with a invoicing of 200 million euros and 900,000 marketed pigs.

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Competitive advantages with the use of information (I). How do the companies use it?

Only the 17% of the companies use more than the 75% of the collected information and only the 27% of them think that they use it better than their competitors.

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Spain: increase in the slaughter of pigs

During the first nine months of 2012, the total pig meat production reached a total value of 2,615,136 tons.

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Vietnam: Dong Nai invests in livestock

The province would foster the establishment of large-scale production areas to increase production of pigs.

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Pig Breeding which was established with a loan from the Muravah

Arnel & Jeceil's Piggery in Barangay Sua, Bicol Region, Philippines.

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Emergency summit required on pigmeat imports from illegal systems

EU has banned the use of stalls for sows throughout most of their pregnancy from the beginning of the New Year most European countries are not yet compliant.

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FAO and ACP Countries agree strategic partnership

Specific areas for collaboration under the FAO-ACP agreement will include promotion of food security; promotion of sustainable intensification of crop and livestock.

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Germany: the pig meat production decrease goes on

The production in carcass weight reached 1.35 million tons, and this means a fall by 5.5%.

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Number of total born piglets according to the parturition number; period January 2006-December 2009

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What do I do with this census?

In previous articles we have talked about the importance of a good sow replacement, and we have explained methods to calculate an adequate sow replacement rate. In this article we are going to show an example of a bad replacement policy and its consequences throughout time on the productivity of the farm.

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Iowa Hog Heaven

Spend a day with Dan Wilson's pigs, hogs and sows on his family's organic farm in Paullina, Iowa.

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European Union: pig slaughtering forecasts

According to the Eurostat data about the slaughtering of pigs in 2012 and the forecasts for 2013, a decrease by 0.4% in foreseen for the EU-27.

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Malta: meat production down

Meat production in the third quarter amounted to 2,483 tonnes, a drop of 15.0 per cent over the comparative period last year.

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Distribution of the number of housed pigs per batch in the growing and fattening stages.

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Description of the production conditions of the pig fattening in Spain

Characteristics of the installations, genetics, medications, feeding, etc. of Spanish feedlots based on data of 452 farms that pertain to nine of the 25 biggest pig integration companies in the country.