Keeping pig keepers up to date
Huge decline recorded in English pig breeding herd as crisis takes its toll England’s female pig breeding herd suffered a massive decline in 2022, as the industry endured massive financial losses on the back of soaring input costs and the pig backlog. Defra census figures for December 2022 show a 20% decrease in the female…
Flavian embracing the opportunity to meet the Farming Minister whereby discussions took place about New Entrants to agriculture & what can be done to attract more people to the industry. Flavian says: Along with including agriculture, food production & the environment to school curriculums, the government needs to ensure that farming is profitable. This can…
•TAIL BITING • A pig farmer’s worst nightmare, aside from making continous losses due to a messed up supply chain. We’ve not had an incident here since November 21 when I came back to Tile Barn. Bedding the pigs daily with fresh straw definitely helps us avoid this. I’ve tail docked before on different farms….