Pork

13 November 2023

The calculated carbon footprint (CF) using Rypsiporsas on this farm is lower than that of pigs raised in other parts of Europe with feed containing soybean meal.

31 August 2023

The risk of boar taint can be reduced to almost zero by selecting particular terminal line boars for artificial insemination.

31 August 2023

Bart Mouton and Filip Van Laere achieve a higher profit from Duroc d'Olives meat, produced from a cross-breed pig fed a diet that includes olive oil.

31 August 2023

The quantity of locally grown broad beans in finisher pig feed has been increased by 200%, with a positive impact on pig performance for Finnish pig producer Terhi Harjunmaa-Levonen.

31 August 2023

Berkhout Meat’s goal is that the end user buys a tasty and familiar piece of meat that meets and even exceeds their expectations, directly from the producer.

31 August 2023

Breeder, Pierre Oteiza from the Kintoa region, has chosen the specifications required to enable the production of a high value-added product.

24 October 2024

Farmer Rick Bosgoed is using smart technology to feed each of his finisher pigs the optimum diet and automatically sort them so they are delivered to the slaughterhouse at exactly the right weight.

24 October 2024

Browse the pig producer case studies and technical reports below, which share best practice in Meat Quality.

31 August 2023

The increase in pigs born per sow (Hyperprolific sows) has caused various production issues relating to ensuring that the piglets have the best chance of survival and in turn being a profitable animal.

31 August 2023

Piglet losses during lactation have been reduced from 25% to 15% on this breeding unit, equipped with a Pro Dromi loose farrowing system.

31 August 2023

Feed conversion ratio has improved and pigs have become easier to handle, since this finisher unit owner began changing the type of environmental enrichment in each pen every day to promote the sense of novelty for the pigs.

24 October 2024

The producers are EU PiG Ambassadors and winners of the annual EU PiG Grand Prix, who have focused on one of the specific Animal Welfare challenges chosen by the industry each year.

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