The pig building ventilation guide aims to help producers provide optimum indoor living conditions for pigs, thereby improving health, welfare and production efficiency, through a better understanding of the principles of ventilation and types of system available

Outdoor pig producers can produce a Soil Management Plan (SMP) for their land where they keep pigs. This demonstrates good practice and avoids problems associated with soil erosion which can result in pollution or other negative impacts putting agricultural subsidy payments in jeopardy

Owners and managers of outdoor herds face the challenge of good soil management to ensure efficient daily operations, health and welfare of pigs while still ensuring consequential environmental impacts from water and airborne soil erosion are minimised by good soil management

Practical advice to pig farmers on providing suitable environmental enrichment to pigs. It provides useful information from the knowledge of farmers, researchers and scientific literature on the different ways environmental enrichment can be provided for differing types of housing and systems

Good water is key for health and good production. This report by RAFT solutions summarises technical and practical information on principles and practice based on international standards and published science, coupled with practical experience and knowledge from UK pig production

Known as the Interpig report, this document is created annually and examines the relative costs of pig meat production right up to farmgate level in selected countries. All these figures in this edition relate to 2016.

2 June 2018

Learn how Farm Excellence is benefiting David Goodier's 230-sow pig farm

Project 1: Translating existing knowledge of management effects on soil biology and soil health for practitioners

25 June 2018

Trade and investment officers from the Department for International Trade (DIT) export visit

15 June 2018

AHDB Senior Veterinary Manager Mandy Nevel and AHDB International Market Development Director Dr Phil Hadley (front centre) host food safety specialists from the Ukraine at AHDB's headquarters

25 June 2018

By opening up his unit to fellow producers and the allied industry, David has benefited from the pooling of ideas

12 June 2018

Creating a best practice guide to sharing farm data is the focus of a new consultation launched by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB)

Project 3: Molecular approaches for routine soil-borne disease and soil health assessment - establishing the scope

6 June 2018

The former Deputy Principal and Chief Executive of Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) has been appointed as an independent member of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) main board

4 June 2018

Almost half a million more shoppers bought fresh pork during the two phases of AHDB Pork’s £3 million midweek meals campaign*.

21 May 2018

UK farmers and growers will have access to more than 50 farmer-to-farmer learning events this summer

29 June 2018

2 July 2018

How to assess soil compaction, select and operate different types of sub-soiler to loosen the soil efficiently

18 May 2018

The Asia-Pacific region continues to offer opportunities for the UK pork sector – but industry must continue to work hard to ensure UK products are at the top of the list for importers

18 May 2018

Shoppers in the UK say they want to buy British food, but not at any cost - with research showing even a small rise in price could see a switch to buying imported alternatives