Even the most resilient people need help and support CONSIDERING the vastness of Australia and the number of people who live in regional and rural areas, it’s a concerning fact that remoteness is a major risk factor contributing to mental health issues and suicide, with the suicide rates being 60 percent higher than rates in…
APIAM Animal Health is expanding their key account management team and is excited to announce the appointment of Haylee Clifford as the southern key account manager. Haylee comes from a rural farming background in South Australia and joins Apiam from AgCommunicators, where she was working as an agricultural communications and marketing consultant. In this role…
AUSTRALIANS want to know if the businesses they engage with operate in ways that align with their values. Are those businesses sourcing responsibly? We know Australians care about farm animal welfare and want to support responsibly sourced animal-based products, as has been seen with the uptake of cage free eggs. While Australians understand that animals…
AFTER a two-and-a-half-year hiatus from face-to-face meetings due to COVID 19, the Australian Pork Limited team were finally able to meet with the board, delegates and state pork groups on the Gold Coast this month for the first delegates forum of 2022. The forum was well attended, with 31 of 32 delegates or their nominated…
A STUDY investigating samples of the superbug clostridioides difficile across 14 pig farms in Denmark finds the sharing of multiple antibiotic-resistance genes between pigs and human patients, providing evidence that animal to human – zoonotic – transmission is possible. The study – by Dr Semeh Bejaoui and colleagues from the University of Copenhagen and Statens…
ORDER of Australia recipient, FightMND patron and co-founder Neale Daniher is calling on people in every corner of Australia to ‘beanie on, play on’ as part of the launch of FightMND’s annual fundraiser, the Big Freeze 8. Mr Daniher – who himself is fighting motor neurone disease – was joined by his family at the…
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…
Porkstar, the chef-influencer marketing program at Australian Pork Limited, returns to in-person events and activations this month after a hiatus due to COVID-19 lockdowns and pandemic restrictions on hospitality and events. PorkStar is the connector between new industry innovators and pork knowledge, armed with the task of elevating pork in peoples’ minds. Having an ongoing…
Despite another turbulent year from a foodservice perspective at Australian Pork Limited, the overall eat-out rate – the proportion of the population eating out for lunch or dinner on any given day – recovered to 28 percent, after the low of 2020 at 25 percent. The overall improvement was driven by increases across all meal…
Last year, Australian Pork Limited made a commitment to address the gender inequality that exists within the global meat sector and closer to home, in Australia. With March 8 marking the United Nations-led International Women’s Day, it was an appropriate time to reflect on the achievements made and cement further work in this space. To…