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
2008	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)

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