LivestockA monogastric specialist tells Farmer's Weekly that feed efficiency in pigs depends on nutrition, health, housing and daily management together, and that cutting diet density to save money often backfires.
LivestockAHDB expects UK pigmeat production to rise 4% this year to about 1.02 million tonnes, then drop 3.7% in 2027 as losses push farmers to shrink the breeding herd.
LivestockIn a Soy Checkoff-funded commercial trial, pigs fed grow-finish diets higher in soybean meal produced carcasses 5.5 pounds heavier during heat stress than pigs on the farm's earlier high-energy ration, at a lower feed cost per pig.
LivestockMembers of the Commons farming committee told food security minister Stephen Morgan that Defra's proposal to replace CO2 stunning of pigs with argon or electrical stunning is out ahead of the evidence, with 15,000 pigs already backed up on farms.
LivestockDefra wants abattoirs to move to argon gas or automated electrical stunning on welfare grounds and is consulting until 21 December; the National Pig Association says no viable alternative at scale has been found.
LivestockThe freeze on new conventional pig farms and expansions, part of a reform to cut production and live exports, is due on 26 October; the Danish Agriculture and Food Council warns of compensation claims.
LivestockA review by Chinese researchers calls the bacterium one of the most promising alternatives to antibiotic growth promoters, with the strongest evidence in weaned piglets and weak evidence in cattle.
LivestockA South African outreach adviser sets out what piglets, weaners, growers, finishers, gilts, sows and boars need, and what goes wrong when small farmers feed only bran or scraps.
LivestockHarper Adams University's 230-sow pig unit, now weaning over 37 pigs per sow a year, lost no pigs to this summer's heat after installing evaporative cooling, and is trialling a filterless air-cleaning system that cut ammonia by 40 percent and finishing diets with no soya.
LivestockThe Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board has appointed London Economics to update its assessment of the economic damage an African swine fever outbreak would do to Great Britain's pig sector, drawing on Spain's recent experience.
LivestockAfter the 'Pig Election', Denmark's government wants fewer live pig exports, a tail-docking phase-out by 2030, a 12-month freeze on new units and far stricter nitrate limits, while prices sit near £1/kg.
LivestockThando Soroshi of Lady Grey in South Africa's Eastern Cape now keeps about 2,000 broilers, a pig herd producing some 300 piglets a year, sheep, goats and cattle, and runs a shisanyama.
LivestockThe European Commission has adopted uniform operating rules, known as UCOL, that will require poultry and pig farms to limit ammonia, nitrogen and phosphorus emissions between 2030 and 2032.
