Weblog Pig Management
John Gadd, after training in Scotland 50
years ago, worked as stockman on several pig farms and managed several more
before joining a large agricultural chemists as pig product manager. He was then technical director
of a pig feed concentrate firm and also helped run their pig farm, then the largest
in Britain.
Head-hunted by Britain's second largest feed firm to be their chief pig
advisor, after 12 years he set up on his own as an international pig consultant,
where over the past 24 years he has been problem solving on pig farms in 23
countries world-wide.
Well-known for his writing on pigs across 38 years, he
has written over 2,600 articles and papers, all on pigs, winning several
international writing awards. He is now on his third pig textbook to be
published in 2007.
His speciality is the cost-effectiveness of pig
technology and has published a list of new terms to encourage everyone to
measure performance in a more meaningful manner - aligned to profit as well as
just physical performance. His monthly column 'What the Textbooks Don't Tell
You…' for Pig Progress is now in its 15th year.
Author: John Gadd
