Hopes to Cut Time Sows are Restrained in Stalls
AUSTRALIA - The Aussie pig industry could be on the verge of an animal welfare breakthrough.

PITWA Introduces Pork Industry Skills Passport
AUSTRALIA - Pork Industry Training WA (PITWA) last week introduced 20 WA pork producers and piggery workers to the Pork Industry Skills Passport, which details and endorses a person’s workplace skills...

Campaign against Intensive Farming Initiated
AUSTRALIA - Welfare campaginers, Animals Australia, has begun a new radio campaign to highlight what they describe as the cruelty of factory farming – particuarly battery hens and gestation crates for...

Free Range Pork Demand Prompts WA Piggery Deal
AUSTRALIA - The Craig Mostyn Group has purchased the West Australian Great Southern Pig Company from the Paspaley Group.

Trials Involving Animal to Human Transplants Banned
AUSTRALIA - Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) today announced that clinical trials involving animal to human transplantation (xenotransplantation) would be allowed to proceed...

RSPCA Calls for Ban of Intensive Pig Farms
TASMIANIA, AUSTRALIA - The new head of the RSPCA has called for a ban on intensive pig farming.

Manner of Handling H1N1 Outbreak Angers Farmers
AUSTRALIA - Pig farmers in Victoria's Goulburn Valley have accused the Department of Primary Industries of mishandling a recent swine flu outbreak.

RSPCA Speaks Out Against Live Export Trade
AUSTRALIA - The Live Export Shipboard Performance Report revealed that more than 36,000 sheep, cattle and goats died while being transported overseas for slaughter in 2008.

No Food Scraps to Pigs Campaign
AUSTRALIA - A new campaign is underway to raise awareness of the risks of feeding food scraps that have had contact with any form of meat to pigs.

Breakthrough Helps Aussie Pork Producers
AUSTRALIA - A major technological breakthrough will help pork producers use canola meal more efficiently and give them the potential to use more of it in pig feeding rations.

Medina Pig Out Day to Showcase Research on Pigs
AUSTRALIA - Pig producers will be able to ‘pig out’ at the industry’s open day at the Department of Agriculture and Food’s Medina Research Station on Friday, 27 March.

Oz Launches 'No Food Scraps to Pigs' Campaign
AUSTRALIA - A new campaign is underway to raise awareness of the risks of feeding food scraps that have had contact with any form of meat to pigs.

Oz Pork Producers Reminded of Swill Feeding Ban
AUSTRALIA - Pig producers have been reminded that swill feeding is banned in Australia.

DPI&F's Climate Risk Group Set for Challenging Role
AUSTRALIA - A new Climate Risk Coordination Group is set to take on the challenging role of assisting Queensland primary producers to overcome the impacts of climate events.