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Even healthy pigs can give producers a headache

In many countries, pig health and pig welfare have been important topics, but pig producers themselves tend to get less attention. Nevertheless, respiratory problems among swine producers appear to be a fairly common phenomenon – and they can strike worldwide. There are ways to prevent these.
By Vincent ter Beek  Pig Farmer, Erik Odelman, is cleaning some farrowing crates. The mask helps him filter the air... read more »

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Batch management production systems

There is a strong need for better organisation of workload and pig flow in the industry. Large batches of piglets of the same age, breed and health status are nowadays very much in demand. Batch management systems have become popular in Europe. What system is best for whom? read more >

What makes a good pig manager?

How do well-known and successful managers, both in pig farming and of the high street retailing chains, approach their different management tasks? In fact, they turn out to be very similar in how they manage their businesses. Here’s the summarising result of ten interviews from experienced persons from both sides. read more >

Commercial unit to train Chinese pig students

As most of China's pigs are still kept in backyards of farms, the Chinese pig production needs to go a long way before it will be fully professional. Pig Progress had a look at a pig training farm - ready to educate the producers of the future. read more >

What the textbooks don't tell you about... Motivating pig farm workers (2)

Last month I discussed the sociological aspects of motivation. It is time now to make a few suggestions; many of them you won’t find in a pig textbook… read more >

What the textbooks don't tell you about... Motivating pig farm workers

Do the pig textbooks – in fact any agricultural textbook – cover the motivation of pig technicians adequately Apart from Dr English’s excellent book on stockmanship – no! read more >
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