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Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Pig Nutrition Under Specialist SpotlightAUSTRALIA - A radical new approach to feed formulation will be put to the Western Australian pig industry by a leading animal nutritionist from the United Kingdom.
Monday, March 01, 2010
Hopes to Cut Time Sows are Restrained in StallsAUSTRALIA - The Aussie pig industry could be on the verge of an animal welfare breakthrough.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
PITWA Introduces Pork Industry Skills PassportAUSTRALIA - Pork Industry Training WA (PITWA) last week introduced 20 WA pork producers and piggery workers to the Pork Industry Skills Passport, which details and endorses a person’s workplace skills...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Campaign against Intensive Farming InitiatedAUSTRALIA - Welfare campaginers, Animals Australia, has begun a new radio campaign to highlight what they describe as the cruelty of factory farming – particuarly battery hens and gestation crates for...
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Free Range Pork Demand Prompts WA Piggery DealAUSTRALIA - The Craig Mostyn Group has purchased the West Australian Great Southern Pig Company from the Paspaley Group.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Trials Involving Animal to Human Transplants BannedAUSTRALIA - Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) today announced that clinical trials involving animal to human transplantation (xenotransplantation) would be allowed to proceed...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
RSPCA Calls for Ban of Intensive Pig FarmsTASMIANIA, AUSTRALIA - The new head of the RSPCA has called for a ban on intensive pig farming.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Manner of Handling H1N1 Outbreak Angers FarmersAUSTRALIA - Pig farmers in Victoria's Goulburn Valley have accused the Department of Primary Industries of mishandling a recent swine flu outbreak.
Friday, July 03, 2009
RSPCA Speaks Out Against Live Export TradeAUSTRALIA - The Live Export Shipboard Performance Report revealed that more than 36,000 sheep, cattle and goats died while being transported overseas for slaughter in 2008.
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
No Food Scraps to Pigs CampaignAUSTRALIA - A new campaign is underway to raise awareness of the risks of feeding food scraps that have had contact with any form of meat to pigs.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Breakthrough Helps Aussie Pork ProducersAUSTRALIA - A major technological breakthrough will help pork producers use canola meal more efficiently and give them the potential to use more of it in pig feeding rations.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Medina Pig Out Day to Showcase Research on PigsAUSTRALIA - Pig producers will be able to ‘pig out’ at the industry’s open day at the Department of Agriculture and Food’s Medina Research Station on Friday, 27 March.
Monday, March 09, 2009
Oz Launches 'No Food Scraps to Pigs' CampaignAUSTRALIA - A new campaign is underway to raise awareness of the risks of feeding food scraps that have had contact with any form of meat to pigs.
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Oz Pork Producers Reminded of Swill Feeding BanAUSTRALIA - Pig producers have been reminded that swill feeding is banned in Australia.
Friday, January 30, 2009
DPI&F's Climate Risk Group Set for Challenging RoleAUSTRALIA - A new Climate Risk Coordination Group is set to take on the challenging role of assisting Queensland primary producers to overcome the impacts of climate events.
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