Pigs Tomorrow 2021: innovation conference

View the digital resources available at this event

Pigs Tomorrow will bring the pig sector together for the industry’s biggest conference of the year, drawing expert speakers from around the world and within the UK pig industry, who will be looking ahead to the pig industry of tomorrow.

The Innovation Conference is funded for levy payers by AHDB. 

Programme

Farrowing Systems of the Future: Challenge or Opportunity?

• Zoe Davis, Chief Executive Officer, NPA
• Gareth Virgo, White Rose Farms, Producer
• Tim Miller, Equipment Manufacturer, ARM

Red Tractor Standards Standards Update – what’s in and what’s out

• Georgina Crayford, Technical Manager (Pigs), Red Tractor Assurance
• Stewart Houston, Chairman, Red Tractor’s Pig Sector

Meeting the Environmental Challenge

• James Holmes, AHDB
• Lizzie Wilson, Policy Services Officer, NPA
• Robin Lawson,
• Hugh Crabtree, Owner/Director, Farm Energy & Control Services Ltd

What makes a National Pig Awards Winner?

• Charlie Thomson

Selling every part of the Pig for the Best Value

• Angela Christison, Strategy Director Pork, AHDB
• Liam Byrne, Head of Marketing, AHDB

AHDB are co-organisers of this event with Lewis Business Media (Pig World magazine).

Pigs Tomorrow 2021 Digital Resources list

Animal and welfare

Nutrition

Feeding growing and finishing pigs

Feeding lactating sows

Nutrition guidance for pigs

Control - pest

Trichinella in pig herds

Youngstock

Feeding the weaned pig

Diseases

Cleaning and disinfection on pig farms

African swine fever

Biosecurity on pig farms

Welfare

Real Welfare

Heat detection in pigs

Temperature requirements of pigs

Moving and handling pigs

Environment

Buildings

Pig buildings and housing

Environmental Permitting Regulations

Soils

Slurry wizard

Knowledge Exchange

Industry information

UK pig facts and figures – 2019

Pig breeding and record keeping

Genetics

Artificial insemination (AI) of pigs

Business

Planning

UK pig meat outlook

AgriLeader

AHDB Pork – Skills and training

Performance

Killing-out percentage

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