Make the most of Christmas marketing
Pig finishers should now be thinking about their marketing strategy over Christmas. With high feed costs and lower pig prices, it is important to optimise returns by planning ahead, advises Matthew Curtis, managing director of Yorkshire-based pig-breeding company ACMC. Demand falls and prices drop in the New Year, so producers are better advised to send […]
Creature comforts for Co-Operative turkeys
Turkeys at The Co-operative Groups farm in Stoughton, Leicstershire, are gobbling up the chance to roam free, in the run up to Christmas, by indulging in some extra- curricular activities in their very own poultry playground. Three thousand turkeys, which are being specially reared by The Co-operative Farms, are being sold online, and in over […]
Innovative air cleaning launched for the poultry industry
New technology to remove micro-organisms from the most crucial areas of poultry production is being introduced by Food Chain Innovation and Air Scientifics. The CCFT (Close Coupled Field Technology) technology adopted in equipment from Air Scientifics uses a controlled high voltage field to destroy airborne viruses, bacteria and fungi. The equipment is totally safe and […]
