Roger Abbott

Roger Abbott is the Editor of Energy Now

Keeping an eye on energy

Carefully examining energy use can not only cut energy bills but lead to heavier weaned pigs.

Oxfordshire pig farmer, Tom Allen (right), discusses with ARM’s Tim Miller, a print-out retrieved from the Farmex datalogger in his newly-commissioned 640-pig ARM Buildings finishing house. Temperature, water flow and electricity consumption are monitored.

Farrowing crate alternatives

Loose housing systems for lactating sows are being tested in Denmark and the UK.

Danish stockwoman Tove Baunsø Sørensen makes friends with one of the sows under her care in a new loose farrowing pen on Ole Haahr’s Nolev Ostergard Farm.

Carbon-neutral pig farming

‘Pig City’ is sustainable and odour free with the added bonus of tomato production.

An artist’s impression of what the revolutionary pig and tomato farm will look like when it is built in Denmark in 2010. Photos courtesy of Nee Rentz-Petersen, Architect,Gottlieb Paludan Architects.

Turning slurry into energy

Many countries pushing AD measures forward that will benefit pig producers.

European farmers are becoming more optimistic about anaerobic digestion, such as these Danish farmers.

Se recupera la demanda de carne de cerdo del susto de la H1N1

Pero los cerdos se contagian del virus en Canadá, Argentina y Australia

Se asombran los porcicultores por los poderes secretos del estiércol líquido

Cualquier productor con más de 600 cerdas debe ser capaz de hacer que un sistema de biogás recupere la inversión en 5 a 10 años.

Laguna de donde se extraen los lodos residuales como fertilizante en la granja Udomdate en Tailandia

New opportunities await biogas

New opportunities await biogas As the environment and the problems caused by pollution rise rapidly up the political agenda around the world, pig producers are ideally placed to take advantage of at least one new green fashion – renewable energy. By Roger Abbott Roger Abbott is the Editor of Energy

A smaller biogas plant in Greece, that simply runs by using pig slurry.

Pig producers switch to slurry's secret powers

Do the costs of investing in a new technology actually pay off?

Udomdate Farm operated by Udomdate Teerasatayakul in Thailand is part of a five-farm family complex with 100,000 pigs.

Vaccination versus castration

European pork chains are alerted to expect a vaccine that prevents boar taint in the meat of male pigs without surgical castration.

One of the on-farm benefits observed with the use of the vaccine is that treated boars are easier to handle late in the finishing period.

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