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    Another Year Pig Producers Would Prefer to Forget?

    Husbandry Markets Industry and legislation
    calendar icon 18 February 2016
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    Feed Grains Markets Grow in a Shrinking World

    Husbandry Markets Industry and legislation
    calendar icon 29 October 2015
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    Role of Dietary Fibre in Diets for Growing Pigs - Part 2

    Disease Husbandry Herd management
    calendar icon 11 September 2015
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    Optimising nutritional efficiency has become more of a challenge as modern feed formulations contain more sources of fibre, so Zhimin Huang and colleagues from the University of Minnesota produced this report looking at improvements in artificial feed digestibility measurements.

    Field Testing a Filter for Disease Control on Pig Transport Trailers

    Disease Managing disease Husbandry
    calendar icon 28 August 2015
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    Evaluation of a prototype air filtration system installed on a transport trailer showed that the use of selected microbial filters can effectively capture bioaerosols and prevent entry into the interior or the trailer, report Bernardo Predicala, Alvin Alvarado and Samantha Ekanayake of the Prairie Swine Centre in Canada in the Centre's latest Annual Report.

    New Advances in Co-products in Animal Feed

    Disease Husbandry Herd management
    calendar icon 21 August 2015
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    Wheat distillers dried grains with solubles (wDDGS) is a promising type of crop co-product which can be used in animal feed.

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    August 2014

    Spray-Dried Animal Plasma Mitigates the Negative Impact of Deoxynivalenol (DON) in Nursery Pigs

    Disease Husbandry Industry and legislation
    calendar icon 22 August 2014
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    Spray-dried animal plasma alleviated the negative effects of deoxynivalenol contamination of the diet for nursery pigs, Prairie Swine Centre researchers told delegates at the 2014 Centralia Swine Research Update.

    Ebola Risk Assessment in the Pig Value Chain in Uganda

    Disease People Health and safety
    calendar icon 22 August 2014
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    Recent epidemiological work has revealed pigs as a host for Ebolavirus, according to a new report from the International Livestock Research Institute. With a rapidly expanding pig population in Uganda and many of them sharing the same habitats as the main vector, the fruit bat, the authors call for more research to assess better the disease risk posed by pig farming in the country.

    Day of Mixing Effect on Gestating Sows' Well-being and Reproduction

    Disease Genetics and reproduction Pig Welfare
    calendar icon 19 August 2014
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    This Pork Checkoff-sponsored study by Dr Robert Knox of the University of Illinois evaluated the effects of the day of mixing gestation sows into groups using reproductive and sow welfare measures.

    Antibiotics Used for Growth Promotion Have Small Positive Effect on Hog Farm Productivity

    Husbandry Market Trends Sustainability
    calendar icon 18 August 2014
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    Based on a survey of farm data, antibiotics used for growth promotion in hog farms have a small positive effect on productivity, according to Nigel Key and William McBride of the USDA Economic Research Service in 'Amber Waves'.

    Emergence of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea in North America

    Disease Notifiable diseases PRRS
    calendar icon 15 August 2014
    clock icon 19 minute read
    A good review of current knowledge of porcine epidemic diarrhoea by C. Hill, E. Raizman, T. Snider, S. Goyal, M. Torremorella and A.M. Perez for the FAO.

    Early Detection and Interventions for Reducing Lameness in Gestating Sows

    Disease Genetics and reproduction Pig Welfare
    calendar icon 14 August 2014
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    The prevalence of lameness in sows may be higher than thought, with roughly 50 per cent of low-parity sows being affected in this study, reported by researchers from the Prairie Swine Centre at the Centralia Swine Research Update 2014. They describe corrective hoof trimming, which may help farms manage and reduce lameness.

    Digestibility of Calcium in Pig Diets

    Disease Husbandry Herd management
    calendar icon 14 August 2014
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    Diet complexity, phytase, phytate and fibre affected the digestibility of calcium in pig diets containing fishmeal in two studies at the Hans H. Stein Monogastric Nutrition Laboratory but fat level did not.
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