Author Archives: SAPPO

Feedback from the EPP-Congress 2023

SAPPO’s CEO, Johann Kotzé, attended the European Pig Producers board meeting and Congress between 17 ...

Many opportunities await SA’s pork industry

Johann Kotzé, CEO of the South African Pork Producers’ Organisation (SAPPO), was recently interviewed by ...

Taaibosch Piggery on Landbouweekliks

The Landbouweekliks team and presenter Theodore Jantjies recently visited Taaibosch Piggery. One of the interview ...

New dimension or a paradigm shift?

On 31 March 2023, Guillaume Burset published an interesting article on www.pig333.com regarding the current ...

Farm visit: Large pig farm in Ukraine vows to rebuild and restock after destruction

One of the biggest pig production farms in Eastern Ukraine has suffered major destruction during ...

Gestation crate bans in US swine herds

Ten states in the United States (US) – Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, ...

Spain publishes new animal welfare regulations

The Official State Gazette (Boletín Oficial del Estado, or BOE) has just published Royal Decree ...

The cost of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from livestock farming

The European Union (EU) and France have both set their goal of carbon neutrality by ...

Welcome to PIGX1 – The first of its kind in our industry!

The South African Pork Producers’ Organisation (SAPPO) coordinates industry interventions and collaboratively manages risks in ...

Biogas study tour: Part 2

The South African Pork Producers’ Organisation (SAPPO) recently participated in a study tour to Denmark ...

Biogas study tour

Recently, the Royal Danish Embassy in South Africa invited the South African Pork Producers’ Organisation ...