Pig Producer Seeks Permission for New Farm
UK - Having identified a suitable site, situated next to Foston Prison, Midland Pig Producers is seeking planning permission for a pig farm with an associated biogas plant.

FMD Antigen Banks Prove Their Worth
UK - Merial vaccines are helping to fight the largest global outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) for 10 years.

PCV2 Investigated as Cause of Reproductive Failure
UK - The Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA) is to increase surveillance for PCV2 virus as a cause of reproductive failure in cases of abortion and stillbirth where no other infectious cause has been...

Help to Cope with Rocketing Feed Costs
UK - Two risk management workshops aimed at helping pig producers cope with rocketing feed prices take place later this month.

Chinese Delegates Visit East Yorkshire
UK - Staff from Yorkshire-based pig breeding company, JSR, were “honoured� to host a group of business delegates visiting from the Xiangfan province of China. The delegates were visiting the North...

Early Winter Boosts Need to Counter Enteric Disease
UK - With dysentery at its highest level for many years, Pfizer Animal Health is launching a new campaign to help increase awareness of the benefits of selecting the best prevention and treatment opti...

Positive Opinion for Circovac Use in Piglets
UK - Merial Animal Health has received a positive opinion from the Committee for Medical Products for Veterinary Use (CVMP) with regard to a variation to the marketing authorisation for its PCV2 vaccine,...

Pig & Poultry Live 2011
UK - Pig and Poultry Live 2011, the one-day business event organised by the Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) in partnership with ABN, will take place on Wednesday 11 May 2011, at Stoneleigh...

Merial Launches Swine Influenza Kit for Vets
UK - Merial Animal Health has introduced a diagnostic kit to allow pig vets in the field to identify the presence of the swine influenza virus (SIV). This follows recent research on English herds which...

ACMC Tip: Monitor Temperature During Cold Snaps
UK - The recent cold snap is a reminder that winter is coming! Already, our practice is seeing upsurges in coughs and respiratory disease in pigs, probably triggered by fluctuations in temperature, says...

Make the Most of Christmas Marketing
UK - Pig finishers should now be thinking about their marketing strategy over Christmas. With high feed costs and lower pig prices, it is important to optimise returns by planning ahead, advises Matthew...

Pfizer, Easter Bush Form Strategic Alliance
UK - The new five-year strategic alliance between Pfizer Animal Health and the Easter Bush Research Consortium (EBRC) is part of a broader partnership platform to advance excellence in veterinary research...

Door Alarm Catches out Pig Thieves
UK - Farmex has developed a quick and easy way of improving security.

Winners Receive Pfizer Trainee of the Year Awards
UK - For the second year running, the Pfizer Pig Trainee of the Year is awarded to a female winner while the Pfizer Poultry Trainee of the Year award goes to Scotland for the first time.

Workshop on Managing Feed Price Volatility
UK - BPEX and the National Pig Association (NPA) have joined forces to hold a series of risk management workshops to help producers manage their businesses while feed prices are so volatile.

Chain Must Reward Its Producers, Says NFU
UK - NFU Deputy President Meurig Raymond laid out the challenges facing the global and British agricultural industries at an event organised by supermarket chain Sainsbury’s on Friday, 22 October.

JSR Looks to the Future
UK - Laura Russell and Mark Woodall have been appointed to boost JSR Genetics' international and UK sales force, respectively.

ACMC Tip: Watch Out for Aujeszky’s Disease
UK - The recent discovery of Aujeszky’s Disease in pigs in the Pyrenees Atlantic region of France reminds us that we cannot take the absence of notifiable diseases for granted.

Finalists for Pfizer Pig Trainee of Year Awards
UK - Three of the pig industry’s brightest young workers from Berkshire, Devon and Norfolk have been chosen as finalists competing for the 2010 Pfizer Pig Trainee of the Year Award.

Waitrose Pork Ad Banned Over 'Outdoor Bred' Pigs
UK - A campaign for Waitrose pork has been banned for misleading consumers about the pigs' living conditions, the advertising watchdog said yesterday.

Intervet/Schering-Plough: New Integrated Livestock Unit Sales Manager
UK - Jonathan Perkins has been appointed to the new role of Sales Manager Integrated Livestock Business Unit at Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health UK.

Cranswick Reports Positive Trading Performance
UK - The six months to 30 September 2010 saw a positive trading performance.

Pig Reproduction: 2TS Special Events
UK - Reproduction management plays a major part in raising pig herd performance. Two special Two-Tonne Sow (2TS) events organised by BPEX in October aim to help producers review and improve reproduction...

Daylength Controller Improves Welfare, Saves Money
UK - The Farmex Dicam Daylength Controller is a software package that improves pig welfare, cuts costs and is good for the environment.

Science - the Answer to Feeding the World?
The theme of this year's JSR Technical Conference was Science – the Key to Feeding the World, writes Jackie Linden, editor of ThePigSite, who attended the event at the University of Nottingham...

Figuring out Improvements
UK - Good information is essential for running a good pig business and BPEX has just launched a new section on its web site that offers just that.

ACMC Tip: Light Up for Fertility
UK - As day length shortens, many producers notice a fall in sow productivity, with increased returns to service.

Meriden Appoints Director of Feed Safety
UK - Meriden Animal Health Limited has appointed Damian Moore as Director of Feed Safety.

ACMC: Virtual Boar Winner
UK - Winner of ACMC’s ‘virtual boar’ competition at the British Pig and Poultry Fair is H F Hart Ltd, Homeleaze Farm, Gloucestershire. They win £1,000 worth of semen for their 450-sow breeding...

JSR’s Technical Conference Offers Food for Thought
UK - The 21^st JSR Technical Conference, this year entitled Science – The Key to Feeding the World, takes place on 14 September at Nottingham University’s Sutton Bonnington Camp...