Outdoor pig units normally rotate on a two year cycle and are stocked at a rate of around 25 sows per hectare on suitable sandy free draining soils. Bury St Edmunds pig consultant Peter Crichton ...

One of the main challenges of organic pig farming is to provide adequate and balanced nutrition for the pigs, using only organic feed ingredients.Organic pigs need a diet that meets their energy ...

The film features the management of an outdoor pig unit near Woodbridge where farmers David and Jill Robinson have teamed up with a range of organisations, including Catchment Sensitive Farming ...

The factory farming of pigs is organised animal abuse, writes Alastair Kenneil, and it imperils the environment and human health. But in the UK we have the choice to buy meat from pigs raised humanely ...

Various scoring methods were tested -- giving more or less weight to the different aspects of animal welfare -- on 74 pig farming systems in the UK.

Meat processor Pilgrim’s Europe is offering UK pig farmers new contracts for a period of 20 years. Agricultural director ...

That way, it fits in to the workloads of those we’re aiming to attract from within pig husbandry and will allow more to attend. The training sessions will begin in late October 2023 and run ...

East Anglia's champion pig farmers are among the prize-winners celebrating victories in a national industry awards scheme. West Norfolk farming firm R&C Mellor won the 2024 Outdoor Pig Producer of ...

Using an innovative trap known as the Pig Brig, the group of trappers was able to catch and kill a whole sounder of 41 pigs. A farming family in Georgia had a hog problem, so they called up a neighbor ...