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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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    June 2014

    Fate of Antimicrobials and Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in Simulated Swine Manure Storage

    Husbandry Environmental management Herd management
    calendar icon 10 June 2014
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    One resistance genes respond primarily to chlortetracycline and seemed to be lost when the parent tetracycline compound was degraded, while another resistance gene responded to a range of antimicrobials in manure but persisted after tylosin degraded, according to a new study from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

    Study of Pig Tracheal Epithelial Cells Infected with Swine Influenza Virus and/or Streptococcus suis

    Disease
    calendar icon 10 June 2014
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    This Canadian study reveals that how a co-infection with the H1N1 flu virus can exacerbate respiratory disease caused by Strep suis.

    Model of PRRS Virus Control Strategies on a Swine Farm in the US

    Disease Managing disease Treatments and prevention
    calendar icon 10 June 2014
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    Repeated mass application of a PRRS modified-live virus vaccine, together with herd closure or gilt acclimatisation, was the best policy to control porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS), according to a study using models at the University of California Davis.

    Minimum Inhibitory Concentration and Minimum Bactericidal Concentration Results for Brachyspira Species: What is the Difference?

    Disease
    calendar icon 10 June 2014
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    Selected antibiotics commonly used in pigs have bactericidal properties approximately double the MIC value, according to research by David Burch and others in the UK presented at The European Symposium on Porcine Health Management (ESPHM) 2014. They also establish the antimicrobial resistance - defined by different measures - of Brachyspira hyodysenteriae, the pathogen causing swine dysentery.

    Plum Juice Concentrate as a Feed Additive for Pigs

    Disease Husbandry Markets
    calendar icon 10 June 2014
    clock icon 3 minute read
    Supplementing the diet with plum juice concentrate at up to three per cent had no significant effects on pig performance, carcass characteristics, pork quality or microbial shedding in trials at Auburn University.

    Weekly Overview: No. 1 Topic at World Pork Expo: PED

    Industry and legislation Conferences & Events
    calendar icon 9 June 2014
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    PED-Positive Farm Samples in US Exceed 7,000

    Disease Notifiable diseases PRRS
    calendar icon 9 June 2014
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