Current Research & Development Programmes
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PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY AND ENVIRONMENT
- Defining the benefits of new genotypes
- Agewean
- Nutwean
- Gutwean
- An investigation into the effect of milk supplementation using a milk line system on performance and behaviour in naturally suckled piglets
- Development and evaluation of low-phytate wheat germplasm to reduce diffuse phosphate pollution from pig and poultry units.
- Video image analysis technology for rapid pig weight estimation
- Commercial pig unit energy monitoring project
- Lupins in sustainable agriculture (LISA)
- Improved utilisation of farm manures and biosolids through the development of rapid analysis via near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS)
- Raising awareness of climate change with farmers and land managers
HEALTH AND WELFARE
- Implementation of existing knowledge on tail biting by the development and evaluation of prevention and outbreak husbandry advisory tools
- Aetiology, pathogenesis and immunology of porcine post-weaning multi-systemic wasting syndrome: genetic-environmental interactions
- Risk factors for pig disease
- Pig herd health plans (digital capture)
- Control of Porcine Circovirus Disease (PCVD)
- Adding value to farm assurance: on-farm evaluation of health and welfare outcomes
- On farm epidemiology of major enteric diseases
- Assessing animal welfare on British pig farms
- The prevalence and cost of tail biting in different production systems
- Joint-ill in piglets and its consequences for production losses in the grower-finisher herd
- Infection with APP and PRRSV in finishing pigs
- Development of an Acute Phase Protein Index as an objective indicator of sub-clinical disease status in pigs
MEAT QUALITY
- Attitudes, practices and state-of-the-art regarding piglet castration in Europe (PIGCAS)
- Improvement of pork tenderness and flavour on-farm
- Reduction of backfat skatole through dietary means
- Comparison of pork quality traits in fast and slow growing pigs
- Exercise to promote the use of ph meters in British abattoirs
- Consumer acceptability of British pig meat at retail
- Review of factors influencing pork eating quality
BPEX-FUNDED PROJECTS ON-GOING, BUT THUS FAR WITH INSUFFICIENT RESULTS TO REPORT
- Seasonality in breeding pigs
- Genetics of litter size and foetal loss in pigs
- Defining the behaviour of different pig genotypes
- Cost benefit analysis of health management strategies in finishing pigs
- Does the method of pig production affect human health?
- Improving the quality of British pork and bacon
- An environmental analysis of the consequences of using home grown protein sources in pig diets
- The use of home-grown legumes as a protein source in pig diets
- The detection of health problems through automated recording of feeding behaviour
For further information regarding any of these projects please contact:
Mark Wilson, Director Pig Industry Development
Mark.Wilson@bpex.org.uk or 01908 844256