Extra high audio system confirmed for Pigs Tomorrow convention

Extra audio system have been confirmed for Might’s Pigs Tomorrow convention, as an thrilling and various programme takes form.

Organised by Pig World and AHDB, the two-day occasion takes place in Leicestershire in Might, and in an vital change to earlier years, each days of the convention can be free to levy payers.

Kicking off day one can be international meat skilled Rupert Claxton, who has greater than 20 years of expertise with Gira, directing livestock and meat sector analysis and consultancy assignments throughout 4 continents.

He can be joined by AHDB analysts David Eudall and Freya Shuttleworth for a World Outlook session, as they set the scene with a worldwide overview, delivering insights into how totally different markets are faring and the large points which can be shaping the worldwide pork commerce.

Pig farm trade-offs

We’re additionally delighted to announce that Dr Harriet Bartlett, a analysis fellow on the College of Oxford specialising in ‘sustainable farming options that profit folks, the planet and pigs’, can be talking.

She is going to focus on some ground-breaking findings from the biggest examine of its sort within the pig sector. With information collected from over 150 pig farms throughout the UK and Brazil, she assessed the results of a broad vary of pig farming methods on local weather, biodiversity, antimicrobial use and animal welfare. Her findings problem the notion that trade-offs between these priorities are unavoidable.

She can be joined in a session on how the worldwide and home pig sector is addressing the sustainability problem by Lisbeth Henricksen, government director on the Danish Seges Innovation institute, who will ship the Danish perspective.

Alongside them, award-winning out of doors producer Rob McGregor, of LSB Pigs, will focus on among the pioneering environmental work on his Norfolk unit.

Day one may also function distinguished audio system from the UK provide chain, discussing how the sector navigates the subsequent steps on the street to restoration.

The 2-day convention may also function a session on versatile farrowing and the way pig companies can higher take care of, retain and entice employees, whereas our in style Younger Weapons panel, that includes the pig farmers of the longer term, will return.

Extra audio system can be introduced over the subsequent few weeks and months.

As all the time, there can be loads of networking alternatives, together with a gala dinner with leisure on the finish of day one.

There can be a busy exhibition space, together with our newest sponsor, Cargill, alongside many different key business firms and organisations.