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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.

June 2014

Colombia Reports New Outbreaks of Classical Swine Fever

17 June 2014

2 minute read

Dominican Republic Reports 26,000 Pigs Deaths from PED

Disease Notifiable diseases PRRS

17 June 2014

3 minute read

Addressing Antibiotic Resistance in Swine

Disease Husbandry Research and innovation

17 June 2014

7 minute read

Reducing antibiotic resistant bacteria in swine farms positively influences swine production and helps address problems of antibiotic resistance and residues in meat. Reduced resistance to pathogenic E.coli contributes to successful antibiotic treatment during disease outbreaks, writes Nataliya Roth, Product manager, Acidifiers with Biomin.

Patterns of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus Genotypes in Ontario, Canada, 2004-2007

Disease Managing disease Treatments and prevention

17 June 2014

3 minute read

The main method of transmission of the porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) in Ontario was found to be common sources of live pigs or similar herd ownership, rather than via aerosols, according to a new study from the University of Guelph.

Impact of Nursery Diet Quality and Fish Oil Supplementation on Growth Performance of Pigs

Disease Husbandry Industry and legislation

17 June 2014

7 minute read

Feeding trials at the University of Guelph reveal that feeding poor-quality protein diets adversely affected the growth of the pigs during the early nursery period but not in the later stages, and fish oil supplementation improved feed conversion over corn oil. Researchers presented these results at the 33rd Centralia Swine Research Update.

Emerging Threats Quarterly Report – Pig Diseases - January-March 2014

Disease Notifiable diseases PRRS

17 June 2014

17 minute read

This report from the Animal Health Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA) in Great Britain includes an overview of PED in North America as well as cases in the UK of oedema disease, nervous disease due to sapelovirus, the detection of PCV2b virus and growing diversity of the PRRS virus.

Weekly Overview: Pig Industry's Contribution to Global Greenhouse Gases

Husbandry Environmental management Industry and legislation

16 June 2014

4 minute read

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