Livestock

1 February 2021

William Baillie is joined by Carrs Billington to explore the key considerations of achieving more profit by focusing on feed costs for all-year-round calving herds

20 March 2025

We have taken a major step towards ensuring accurate data is used to assess the environmental impact of ammonia emissions from pigs.

6 March 2025

A week of events looking at practical advice for farmers and growers on carbon measurement and environmental management

27 April 2026

FAQs to introduce farmers and other industry stakeholders to the GB Dairy Calf Strategy

10 October 2025

Here you can find links to further information on all the resources mentioned in the Forage First guide.

26 January 2021

Gilt Watch® demonstrated there are many solutions to improving overall gilt and sow retention but only when embedded across processes to produce marginal gains. What is needed is a how-to guide for getting from variation to standardisation.

26 January 2021

Gilt Watch® mentors have shown that controlling some of the processes around gilt selection, farrowing groups and nutrition by parity, substantial reductions in variation and performance can be achieved.

26 January 2021

6 June 2022

Discover our Gilt Watch® programme, designed to help pig producers make informed and efficient business decisions on gilt management.

25 January 2021

The Real Welfare project gathers standardised information on a mix of ‘iceberg indicators’ of health and welfare to provide a pragmatic, evidence based approach to assess welfare from an animal’s perspective.

25 January 2021

Data show that, on average, all the welfare outcomes measured through the Real Welfare scheme, bar one, have shown improvements since the scheme was introduced in 2013.

28 January 2021

More than 13 million pigs have been individually assessed by specially trained vets to provide a credible and benchmarked level of welfare.