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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

    Reducing the Risks Associated with Winter Manure Application

    Husbandry Environmental management Herd management
    calendar icon 7 August 2014
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    Livestock farmers need to recognise the environmental risks with winter spreading.Gerald May, Mississippi State University Extension Educator, explains how to evaluate each field and choose the best practices to reduce the risks in MSU 'Pork Quarterly'.

    Vitamin D3 Supplementation in Suckling and Weaned Piglets

    Disease Husbandry Herd management
    calendar icon 6 August 2014
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    In three trials, oral supplementation of piglets with vitamin D3 increased serum levels but there were no effects on piglet performance, according to R. Friendship in a report for Ontario Pork.

    Are Severely Depressed Suckling Pigs Resistant to Gas Euthanasia?

    Disease Managing disease Pig Welfare
    calendar icon 6 August 2014
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    Piglet vitality did not its response to euthanasia with carbon dioxide gas but it did affect responses to argon, according to an Iowa State University study. Argon was associated with a more prolonged euthanasia process.

    How Commercial and Non-commercial Swine Producers Move Pigs in Scotland

    Disease Managing disease Husbandry
    calendar icon 6 August 2014
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    Scotland's commercial pig producers are not isolated from the non-commercial sector and may frequently interact, directly or indirectly, according to this new study - an important fact to bear in mind with regard to biosecurity and the control of future disease outbreaks.

    Project Investigates Piglet Diarrhoea Risk Factors

    Husbandry Market Trends Sustainability
    calendar icon 5 August 2014
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    Weekly Overview: Antibiotic Resistance and Other Global Consumer Concerns

    Husbandry Markets Market Trends
    calendar icon 4 August 2014
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    PED-Positive Farm Samples in US: 7,893

    Disease Notifiable diseases PRRS
    calendar icon 4 August 2014
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