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Saturday, May 17, 2008
High Commercial Fertilizer Cost Makes Livestock Manure Fertilizer More Attractive
Market Preview: Expect Congress to Override Farm Bill Veto
Weekly Review: Feeder Pig Imports Cause Surprise!Friday, May 16, 2008
Intervet / Schering Plough Animal Health at VIV Europe in Moscow.
Pig Industry Gets Royal Backing
Federal Cull Program Moves to Phase II
LMPR Law Creates Transparency and Accuracy
Record Setting Texas Ag Goes Through the Roof
Legal Defense Tries to Stop Animal ID in it's Tracks
Management Helps Maximize Value of Livestock Manure
Meeting to Merge Pig Industry with Other Sectors
Decline in Pork Output Expected
Retailers' Failure Causes Heavy Losses
Revised Meat Packers' Legislation IssuedThursday, May 15, 2008
Salmonella Eradication Scheme Refocused
Funding Initiatives for Eco Friendly Meatmore swine news...
Featured Articles
Learning & Profiting from Animal Welfare Trends
New definitions and expectations surrounding welfare also carry strong value-added opportunities for the livestock industry, says Dr. John Webster in the proceedings...Clean Properly Before You Disinfect!
By DuPont Animal Health Systems, published in a Pig Topics Bulletin. In his latest feature article ‘Clean Properly Before You Disinfect', Jake Waddilove, MA, VetMB,...United Kingdom Pig Meat Market Update
UK pig prices continued to strengthen in April according to the latest report from AHDB Meat Services for the British Pig Executive. 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...Calculate, Before You Vaccinate
Jane Jordan talks to John Richardson, Pig Business Manager about Intervet's new approach to managing the Porcine Respiratory Disease Complex. ResPig combines laboratory...Electronic Identification in Traceable Systems
As pork chains become more diverse and with increased stringency of some export specifications, animal identification (ID) and traceability is a key component regarding...Red Meat and Cancer - Fact or Fiction?
A World Cancer Research Fund report published at the end of last year concluded that people should eat less than 500 grams or 18 ounces of red meat per week, writes...more pig features...









