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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.

April 2014

Analyst Explains Why US Sow Herd Expansion Delayed

Markets

3 April 2014

4 minute read

Brazilian Pig Industry Requests Govt Support for PED Controls

Disease Notifiable diseases PRRS

3 April 2014

2 minute read

Simple Calculations: Feed Conversion, Daily Gain and Mortality

Husbandry Herd management Production Management

3 April 2014

3 minute read

For producers who are not using an electron recording system, BPEX shows simple ways of calculating these three keep performance indicators in No. 22 in its series of Knowledge Transfer Bulletins.

Rodenticide Ingestion in Swine

Disease Managing disease Treatments and prevention

3 April 2014

3 minute read

Delegates at the Centralia Swine Research Update 2014 heard about a project to assist veterinarians with the detection of and establishing possible withdrawal times for the rat and mouse poison, bromadiolone.

Costs of Bedding, Trailer Wash-out and Transport Losses in Market Weight Pigs

Disease Managing disease Pig Welfare

3 April 2014

8 minute read

Based on 2011 figures, the highest estimate for annual costs of wash-out and bedding to the US pig industry was estimated at $135 million, according to Rebecca Kephart and others in the Iowa State University Animal Industry Report 2014.

Effects of Dietary Zinc Level and Ractopamine on Pork Chop Tenderness and Shelf-Life Characteristics

Disease Husbandry Markets

3 April 2014

4 minute read

Feeding pigs 10ppm ractopamine HCl (RAC) altered the pig muscle fibre types, as did additional dietary zinc, which affected meat colour characteristics, according to research presented at the 2013 Kansas Swine Industry Day.

VIV Europe Exhibitors Look Ahead, Present Product Trends

SPONSOR Research and innovation Industry and legislation Conferences & Events

2 April 2014

5 minute read

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