Animal Cloning and Implications for the Food Chain
This report examines the potential issues involved with cloning animals for commercial industry, prepared for COI, on behalf of their client, The Food Standards Agency.

The Role of Biosecurity in Aujeszky's Disease/Pseudorabies Control
By Jake Waddilove MA, VetMB MRCVS, DuPont Animal Health Solutions. In this article, Jake Waddilove advises that Aujeszky's Disease (AD), or Pseudorabies (PR) as it is also known, is an important worldwide disease. Some countries are free from the disease,...

Multi-Sire, Multi-Mating - A Multitude of Sins
By Jane Jordan, ThePigSite Editor. In Denmark organic pork production is based on applying natural principles to animal husbandry techniques and management practices where and whenever possible. However, research at Aarhus University has shown that relying...

Development of Novel Technologies for Swine Production
The swine production industry operates under a narrow profit margin that has tightened in recent years due in part to increasing governmental regulations, Chad Stahl said in his presentation to the Carolina Feed Industry Association Fall Conference and...

Fetal Pig Programming - An Emerging Concept with Possible Implications for Swine Reproductive Performance
By Mark J. Estienne and Allen F. Harper, VA Tech Tidewater AREC, Suffolk, VA. Livestock Update, April 2008.

EU 27 Livestock and Products Semi Annual Report 2008
By USDA Foreign Agricultural Service. During the second half of 2007, increased supply of pork and rising feed costs induced a “return of the pig cycle”.

Does Dam Parity Affect Progeny Health Status?
By Thomas E. Burkey, Phillip S. Miller, Rodger K. Johnson, Duane E. Reese and Roman Moreno¹. Preliminary data indicate that progeny health status may improve with increasing parity.

Hog Operations Increasingly Large and More Specialized
By William D. McBride and Nigel Key. This finding is drawn from The Changing Economics of US Hog Production, by USDA Economic Research Service, December 2007. Structural change in U.S. hog production during the past two decades has had profound effects...

Catheter Considerations
This article was based on a peer reviewed paper that appeared in the Journal of Swine Health and Production 15 – Volume 16, Number 1. We have been advised that the authenticity of the aforementioned peer reviewed paper has become sub judice and as a...

Feeding Bioenergy Coproducts to Swine
By Brian J. Kerr, Research Leader, USDA-ARS, Ames, Iowa; Mark Honeyman, professor, and Peter Lammers, research assistant, Animal Science Department; and Sherry Hoyer, Iowa Pork Industry Center, Iowa State University. Biodiesel can be produced from...

Genetic Gains - FCR Should Be The Focus
By Jane Jordan, ThePigSite Editor. As feed costs continue to rise pig producers are trying to squeeze every scrap of growth and performance from their herds - which is not easy given the many variables involved in producing a quality carcases.

Are Export Subsidies Enough to Stabilise EU Market?
By USDA, Foreign Agricultural Service - This article provides information on the effect of the reintroduction of pig meat subsidies in the EU 27

Sports Supplements to Aid Parturition and Reduce Perinatal Mortality
By Theo van Kempen Provimi RIC, and North Carolina State University. Published in the University of Nottingham University Press. Perinatal mortality, which includes stillbirths and neonatal mortality in the first days after parturition, is a serious challenge...

Bridging the Gap Between Genetic Potential and On-Farm Performance in Commercial Pigs
By Aedmund J. McClure, Courtesy of Alltech Inc. Commercial hybrid pigs as found on farms throughout the world today have a much improved potential for growth and a much better ability to convert feed to liveweight gain than their counterparts in the late...

European Food Safety Authority Report on MRSA in Breeding Pigs
Report of the Task Force on Zoonoses Data Collection on a proposal for technical specifications for a baseline survey on the prevalence of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in breeding pigs¹