Continue what you are doing – just a little bit better While visiting many farms over the years, John Gadd has collected enormous piles of data about pig farms. Small...
Asking a supplier the right questions As in every industry, manufacturers from all kinds of products will try to convince pig producers to buy their...
Colostrum (III): Immunity’s A to Z The third in the series of columns by John Gadd on colostrum. In this column John looks at immunity.
Colostrum (II): The immunogens Following on from his previous colostrum column, Pig Progress's expert, John Gadd explains more about hand...
Colostrum (I): Hand management Pig Progress's expert, John Gadd, takes a look at colostrum. There are many that would think there is little...
Light (IV): Measuring Textbooks hardly cover light at all, according to our resident expert on 'Pig management', John Gadd, therefore...
5 reasons why weaning age will come down What is the ideal weaning age for pigs? Over the years expert columnist John Gadd observed that thinking about...
Light (III): 4 proofs that correct levels are vital In his penultimate piece about light, Pig Progress' resident expert on 'Pig Management', John Gadd gathers 4...
Light (II): How much and for how long? Pig Progress' resident expert on 'Pig Management', John Gadd, takes the subject of light 1 step further in this...
Light (I): Seasonal infertility This is the first of 4 pieces on light by pig farm advisor, John Gadd. In this article Gadd looks at the correct...
New technical terms (III): Genomics This concludes John Gadd's series on how the textbooks describe the main new technical subjects. Genomics is a...
New technical terms (II): Nutraceuticals In his previous article John Gadd discussed epigenetics, the first of several new or newish concepts appearing...
New technical terms (I): Epigenetics Epigenetics, what does it mean? Columnist John Gadd explains in his latest column what it is. Even after years...
Keeping disease out of the farm (III) I touched on this subject in part II, earlier this year, but I felt that it was so important that a complete...
Dealing with PED virus (III) In the two previous episodes on this subject, I touched on the resemblance of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea (PED)...
Dealing with PED virus (II) Standard Operating Procedures, as published in the United Kingdom, are guideline documents that can help...
OPINION: Big litters and pre-weaning mortality Many people think that there is a relationship between big litters and pre-weaning mortality, and some salve...
Dealing with PED virus (I) Much has been written about Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea (PED) virus, this traumatic disease. In these notes John...
Keeping disease out of the farm (II) This is the second in the series of John Gadd's 'Keeping disease out of the farm'. Last issue covered the 2 most...
Column: Keeping disease out of the farm (I) John Gadd: “Disease costs a lot of money, much of these costs are hidden in subclinical disease.”