THE ‘Get some pork on your fork’ campaign is continuing its focus on communicating easy mid-week dinner winners to our target audience of time-poor families with children, and the new TV commercial ‘Sliders’ airs on May 1. Pulled pork sliders This new commercial shows an everyday family creating pulled-pork sliders at home and gives viewers…
AFTER digesting a delectable animal welfare piece in an April edition of Pig Progress by Monique Pairis-Garcia, veterinarian and associate professor at North Carolina State University in the US, I thought I’d review the RSPCA’s view on the Five Freedoms Animal Welfare model and how it’s standing up to the increasingly observed Five Domains model.…
Feral pigs cause significant economic losses to agricultural production and, while there are many anecdotal reports of individual impacts to farmers, regional-scale costs have not been well documented. In many instances, the limited resources that are available are preferentially being applied to support on-ground management programs to control feral pig populations, rather than routine monitoring…
May 2022 edition headlines Cost of feral pigs to producers Committed to ensuring high animal welfare standards Pork Industry Calendar of Events Turning waste into drinking water Five freedoms domain of healthy debate Term ‘pork-barreling’ started as a joke Aerator upgrade for safer and better aeratio AusScan Monthly Early Harvest Report for March 202 Traceability…