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Pig Production Development Unit - Articles

The Pig Development Unit has been very prolific in publishing articles in popular press recently. Those articles cover a range of topics including:

Farming Independent Articles

2011 Feed Price Increases have a double impact on Pig Producers (72KB PDF Format)
Returning to Profitability (74KB PDF Format)
Where Have All the Pigs Come From? (57KB PDF Format)
2010 Focus On Fertility (67KB PDF Format)
Loose Dry Sow Housing (71KB PDF Format)
Pig Feed Pressure (68KB PDF Format)
Nitrates Regulations Update (67KB PDF Format)
What is the optimum slaughter weight for pigs? (32KB PDF Format)
Time to Consider Sow Housing Options (77KB PDF Format)
2008 Pressure Business
Testing times for farmers by Sinead Treanor
2007 Where is the Irish pig industry going (21KB PDF Format)
Bord Bia Quality Assurance Scheme (12KB PDF Format)
Feed Conversion Efficiency Matters (26KB PDF Format)
Pig Manure (42KB PDF Format)
Pig Manure as a Low Cost fertiliser (41KB PDF Format)
Dutch Production (77KB PDF Format)
Danish Production (11KB PDF Format)
Breeding programmes (20KB PDF Format)
2006 Contract finishing (70KB PDF Format)
Manure processing (65KB PDF Format)
Pig producers and grain producers (37KB PDF Format)
The economic importance of the Irish pig industry (61KB PDF Format)

Irish Farmers Journal Articles

2011 Author
November The Irish Pig Sector 2011 Ciarán Carroll
October International Cost Competitiveness in Pig Production Michael A Martin
October The Economics of Early Culling Ciarán Carroll
October Key Components of Good Loose Dry Sow Housing Systems Laura Boyle
July Pig producers becoming ever more efficient Michael A Martin
2010 Author
October More Focus needed on Lactation Feed Intakes Ciarán Carroll
October Pig Sector Overview Ciarán Carroll
October Pig Training for the Future Gerard McCutcheon
October The Feed Cost Challenge Michael A Martin
October Financial Budgeting Michael Mc Keon
2009 Author
17/10/09 Biosecurity Influenza A H1N1 Herd Protection Ciarán Carroll
17/10/09 Gilt Management Ciarán Carroll
17/10/09 Mycotoxins & Grain Quality Gerard McCutcheon
17/10/09 National PigSys Report 2008 Michael Martin
17/10/09 Two Turbulent Years in Pig Production Michael McKeon
2008 Author
05/07/08 Improved Technical Efficiency on PigSys Recorded Herds Michael Martin
June Managing Staff Ciarán Carroll
06/08 Benchmarking Pig Herd Performance Michael Martin
15/06/08 A Year of Escalating Pig Feed Prices - Why Michael. McKeon
14/06/08 Gilt Management to Improve Sow Output Gerard McCutcheon
05/08 EU. Pig Feed Prices Compared Michael Martin
02/04/08 Cost of Producing Excess Pig Manure Michael McKeon
19/01/08 How Severe are losses in the pig sector Michael Martin