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11 September 2025

Pig Health Scheme back up and running

The Pig Health Scheme is now operating at full capacity across the 11 largest pig abattoirs in England.

19 August 2022

Getting to know Patrick Loten

This is the third article in or getting to know your KE Manager series. Patrick Loten, Pat as he is fondly called, joined AHDB in 2018, and since then, he has worked on projects such as our Monitor Farms, the Gilt Watch programme and Precision Pig. Read more about him.

4 August 2022

UK pork exports to the USA reach almost £11.6m

America is now the third biggest export market for the UK pork sector, with shipments having nearly doubled in value compared with last year.

16 October 2023

Biosecurity checklist for pig farms

A biosecurity checklist to remind yourself and your team of the simple things which could keep disease away from your pigs.

1 August 2022

Antibiotic submission deadline approaching for pigs

The Red Tractor deadline for submitting Q2 (April – June) antibiotic data for pigs is 11 August 2022.

23 June 2022

UK pig industry reduces antibiotic use by 17%

New figures show the amount of antibiotic used to treat pigs on UK farms in 2021 fell by 17%, bringing the total reduction since 2015 to 69%.

22 June 2022

Early results from supplementary milk trial

The number of piglets born alive per litter is increasing rapidly and may exceed the number of functional teats of the sow. This presents the challenge of how to rear the excess piglets.

16 June 2022

Blog: How to avoid heat stress in pigs

Heat stress impacts on growth rates, farrowing rates, and litter sizes. Is your stockman prepared to avoid it?

8 June 2022

Getting to know Tony Bayles

Tony Bayles is a Knowledge Exchange Relationship Manager at AHDB and the key contact for small-scale pig keepers.

18 April 2022

Tools help farmers to keep improving pig health and welfare

Read about some of the ways we're helping farmers to keep improving pig health and welfare

26 May 2022

Getting the most out of welfare training

Find out about the moving and handling training and what it means for you, as well as how you can keep track of your training via PigPro – your online training record.

15 March 2022

Blog: Getting hands-on with loose lactation systems

Kerri is now halfway through her time with AHDB, find out what she's been getting up to over the last few weeks