Eating Behaviour in Large Groups: Learning How Pigs Perceive Their Environment
Harold. W. Gonyou from the Prairie Swine Centre looks at the eating habits of pigs in large groups in pens and how they adapt to their environment.

Vaccination Effective in Controlling PRRS in Nursery Pigs
Vaccinating nursery pigs for Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) can significantly reduce mortality and improve pig performance, writes ThePigSite senior editor Chris Harris.

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,...

British Pig Market
UK - Mick Sloyan, Chief Executive of the British Pig Executive (BPEX) gave the first presentation at the European Pig Producers (EPP) Congress in the city of Norwich on 5 June 2008, reports Jackie Linden, editor ThePigSite.

Profitable Antibiotic-Free Pork Production
By Darwin Kohler, DVM; James Schneider, PhD and Chad Bierman, MS, Babcock Genetics, Inc., Rochester, Minnesota, as published in the North Carolina University, Swine News Volume 31 No 6.

US Feed Outlook
Allen Baker, Edward Allen, and Heather Lutman, ERS USDA. This monthly report examines supply, use, prices, and trade for feed grains, including supply and demand prospects in major importing and exporting countries. Focuses on corn; also contains information...

Global Pig Price Cycle Swings Upwards
By Chris Harris, Senior Editor, ThePigSite. Our snapshot of the ongoing global pig industry trends as reported in June 2008 Whole Hog Brief. To read the full detailed analysis including all the commentary and graphical data, subscribe to the publication....

United Kingdom Pig Meat Market Update
UK pig prices continued on their upward trend, according to the latest report from AHDB Meat Services for the British Pig Executive, produced by Tony Fowler, Senior Economic Analyst.

Better Beginnings for Pigs in New Type of Pen
By Senior scientist Lene Juul Pedersen, Department of Animal Health, Welfare and Nutrition, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Aarhus.

Does Feeding Distillers Grains in Rations Increase E. coli O157:H7?
By Terry Klopfenstein, Dave Smith, Galen Erickson and Rod Moxley University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Stillbirths
NADIS is a veterinary-based production disease monitoring and recording system covering England and Wales. Practising veterinarians provide day-by-day information of what is happening on pig farms that may have an impact on health and productivity. This...

Brazilian Pork in 2007
ABIPECS, the Brazilian Pork Industry and Exporter Association, reviews the movements in the international and domestic markets for Brazilian pork over the last year.

Media Battles: Changing the View of Livestock Production
This article is taken from the proceedings of the Livestock Care Conference, held by Alberta Farm Animal Care. Media is highly influenced...

Economic Impacts of Foreign Animal Disease
This report by the USDA Economic Research Service presents a modeling framework in which epidemiological model results are integrated with an economic model of the U.S. agricultural sector to enable estimation of the economic impacts of outbreaks of foreign-source...

Global Feed Commodities Market
This report looks at the Impact of the Global Feed Commodities Market on the British Pig Industry and Risk Management Strategies to Mitigate This. Prepared by BPEX Ltd with independent contributions by ABN and Barclays.