November 2, 2017
8 winners in 1st EU PiG Grand Prix competition get awards
Run by the EU Pig Innovation Group (EU PiG), the contest awarded the title of EU PiG Ambassador to each of the winners, who entered innovative examples of best practice on their farms.
The best practice relates to one of the EU PiG themes of health, welfare, precision production and meat quality.
The winning practices are:
Health Biosecurity tool Ireland
Reducing antibiotic use Netherlands
Precision Production Clean and accessible water Denmark
Routine weighing for accurate feeding Denmark
Meat quality "Heart Pig": marketing via welfare brand Denmark
Male fatteners without boar taint Germany
Welfare Entire male production Spain
Rearing pigs with intact tails Finland
The annual EU PiG Grand Prix is designed to identify best practices on pig farms and share them with pig producers across EU PiG’s 13 participating EU member states and beyond.
"The network of 19 partner organisations worked with producers in all 13 countries to identify pig production innovations that are working well in practice, drawing in nearly 300 entries to be shortlisted and assessed by industry experts", said AHDBs Charlotte Evans, EU PiG project coordinator.
"EU PiG is about connecting pig producers and others across the European pig industry, and sharing the latest best practice and innovations, and the Grand Prix entrants have given us a varied and impressive range of ideas to help other producers improve on-farm efficiency", he added.
The EU PiG is a network of 19 partner organisations from 13 member states that helps pig producers find tried-and-tested best practices from fellow producers across Europe.-Rick Alberto
