Category Archives: Let’s Talk Indepth

Sows undergo changes in structure over time, research suggests

Sows undergo changes in structure over time, according to research by Melanie Trenhaile-Grannemann, a graduate ...

Balancing the risks and opportunities on the African continent

It would be remiss to paint the African continent with one brush as many countries ...

Three ways farms of the future can feed the planet and heal it too

Intensive agriculture may be nourishing most of the Earth’s inhabitants, but it’s doing the opposite ...

2020: Expect more expensive food, and higher tax

Consumers will get their first indication of what 2020 has in store for them on ...

Protecting piglets post-partum with smart technology

The Pig Site speaks to SwineTech co-founder and CEO Matthew Rooda about SmartGuard and protecting ...

Antibiotic resistance: Fight fiction with facts

In a recent episode of 60 Minutes, antibiotic use in the livestock industry, and pork ...

NAMC’s South African Food Cost Review 2019

The availability and accessibility of affordable nutritious food play a vital role in any household. ...

Birth weight uniformity as a potential predictor of future pig performance

The number of healthy piglets born alive is a primary focus of the pork industry ...

The importance of arginine in piglets

By Heinrich Jansen van Vuuren* The discovery of the urea cycle in mammals by Hans ...

Tail necrosis in pigs

Pig tail necrosis is a common and unfortunate problem that occurs unpredictably and can compromise ...

Food disruption: Our time of eating meat could be drawing to a close

A monumental shift in the way that we produce and consume food, in particular protein, ...

Feed wastage: Reducing a hidden cost

Feed wastage is notoriously difficult to measure despite existing in the majority of farming systems. ...