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Jackie Linden

Another Year Pig Producers Would Prefer to Forget?

Husbandry Markets Industry and legislation

18 February 2016

5 minute read

Feed Grains Markets Grow in a Shrinking World

Husbandry Markets Industry and legislation

29 October 2015

7 minute read

Role of Dietary Fibre in Diets for Growing Pigs - Part 2

Disease Husbandry Herd management

11 September 2015

7 minute read

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

28 August 2015

6 minute read

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

21 August 2015

4 minute read

Wheat distillers dried grains with solubles (wDDGS) is a promising type of crop co-product which can be used in animal feed.

July 2014

US Pig Farm Samples Positive for Porcine Delta Corona Virus: 354

Disease Notifiable diseases PRRS

28 July 2014

4 minute read

Improving Herd Health by Eradicating Endemic Diseases

Disease Managing disease Husbandry

25 July 2014

15 minute read

Depopulation/repopulation and partial depopulation are outlined as methods to eradicate endemic diseases by David Burch of Octagon Services Ltd in the UK in a submission to the European Commission's DG Agri – European Innovation Partnership (eip-agri) Focus Group for 'The reduction of antibiotic use in the pig sector'.

Benchmarking and Standardisation of Swine Production Systems

Husbandry Industry and legislation Conferences & Events

24 July 2014

5 minute read

Fourteen key areas of pig house design and management were identified by pork producers and other stakeholders as areas that could potentially benefit from standardisation and optimisation efforts, researchers at the Prairie Swine Centre reported to the Centralia Swine Research Update 2014.

The Effect of Stockpeople on Pigs

Husbandry People Health and safety

24 July 2014

8 minute read

Tips on finding and retaining staff for the farm by Madonna Gemus-Benjamin, extension swine veterinarian with Michigan State University in 'MSU Pork Quarterly'.

Comparative Digestibility of Energy and Nutrients in Diets Fed to Sows and Growing Pigs

Disease Husbandry Herd management

24 July 2014

6 minute read

The apparent digestibility of fibre by pregnant sows was not different from values obtained in growing pigs for most of the feed ingredients tested in this study from the Hans H. Stein Monogastric Nutrition Laboratory at the University of Illinois. Energy and protein digestibilities were higher for sows than growing pigs.

Brachyspira hampsonii Clade I (Canadian strain 30599) Causes Mucohaemorrhagic Diarrhoea and Colitis in Pigs

Disease

23 July 2014

3 minute read

Research from Canada confirms that 'Brachyspira hampsonii' clade I strain 30599 is pathogenic and causes mucohaemorrhagic diarrhoea and colitis in susceptible pigs.

New PED Case Confirmed in Ontario

Disease Notifiable diseases PRRS

22 July 2014

2 minute read

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