High health and biosecurity central to large-scale outdoor pig production unit

Keeping pigs for the whole of their lives from birth to finishing is key for North Farm Livestock’s outdoor pig enterprise in Norfolk.

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High health and biosecurity central to large-scale outdoor pig production unit

Keeping pigs for the whole of their lives from birth to finishing is key for North Farm Livestocks outdoor pig enterprise in Norfolk. Not many outdoor pig producers take pigs from birth right through...

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