Content related to the sectors: pork

28 April 2026

EU PiG – Birth management in loose farrowing systems

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

24 April 2026

EU PiG – Novelty in enrichment material

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.

2 April 2026

EU PiG – Animal welfare

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.

2 April 2026

EU PiG – Entire male production

Spanish farmer Ramon Armengol has a 720-sow, farrow-to-finish ‘closed unit’ producing entire males.

13 April 2026

EU PiG – Rearing pigs with intact tails

Tail docking has been banned in Finland since 2003, so the Sikana Oy farm rears its 2,980 finisher pigs with intact tails and uses a number of practical measures to ensure they comply with legislation and maintain both welfare and productivity.

28 April 2026

EU PiG – High-pressure fogging

Pigs have an optimum temperature at which they thrive. Temperatures across Europe in the summer (even Ireland and the UK) can exceed that level, causing stress on pigs and lowering productivity.

28 April 2026

EU PiG – Reducing ammonia emissions by separating faeces and urine

Faeces and urine are separated, and regularly removed, from the finisher pig housing to reduce the production of ammonia on a Belgian unit run by Akivar.

24 October 2024

EU PiG – Reduction of antimicrobial medication

Dutch farmer Kees van der Meijden has achieved the enviable goal of reducing antibiotic use to almost zero.

2 April 2026

EU PiG – Fermenting liquid feed, an alternative to zinc oxide

A fermented liquid feed system is providing an alternative to zinc.

28 April 2026

EU PiG – Cross-company approach to PRRS

A group of 13 pig farms in the same region have reduced PRRS problems by 30% in a three-year period by working together and learning from each other to help tackle the problem

28 April 2026

EU PiG – Pig temperature app for early disease detection

An app that monitors pig temperature is helping with early detection of hyperthermia.

28 April 2026

EU PiG – DrySist: Truck dry disinfection

Improving the biosecurity against ASF and other pathogens