Working to help support UK pig producers with nutritional advice and technical innovation to optimise pig productivity.

Introducing new ideas and best practice in to the English pig industry in order to overcome production problems and improve technical performance; global acquisition of new knowledge and demonstrating and adapting new ideas through grants, field trials and conferences.

Helping pig producers improve herd performance through conducting on-farm reviews, coordinating training and pig clubs meetings and providing technical support to producers in the South of England

Managing pig health improvement projects

The PhD research investigated the epidemiology of infectious diseases in pigs, their impact on production and possible control and elimination strategies.Evans, C.M., Medley, G.F., Green, L.E. Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) in GB pig herds: farm characteristics associated with heterogeneity in seroprevalence (2008) BMC Veterinary Research 4:48 Evans, C.M., Medley, G.F., Creasey, S.C., Green, L.E. A stochastic mathematical model of the within-herd… Show more The PhD research investigated the epidemiology of infectious diseases in pigs, their impact on production and possible control and elimination strategies.Evans, C.M., Medley, G.F., Green, L.E. Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) in GB pig herds: farm characteristics associated with heterogeneity in seroprevalence (2008) BMC Veterinary Research 4:48 Evans, C.M., Medley, G.F., Creasey, S.C., Green, L.E. A stochastic mathematical model of the within-herd transmission dynamics of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV): fade-out and persistence (2010) Preventive Veterinary Medicine 4: 248 Show less