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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

Controlling Feed Cost by Including Alternative Ingredients into Pig Diets: A Review

Disease Husbandry Herd management

2 April 2014

3 minute read

Alternative feed ingredients may reduce the cost per unit of pork produced, according to a review from Canada, provided that energy, lysine and anti-nutritive factors are taken into account.

Evaluation of the Environmental Implications of the Incorporation of Feed-use Amino Acids in Pig Production Using Life Cycle Assessment

Disease Husbandry Environmental management

2 April 2014

4 minute read

A combination of amino acid supplementation of low-protein diets and multi-phase feeding of fattening pigs had the greatest effects reducing the environmental impacts of pig production.

Novel Multiplex Diagnostic Assays Development for Diagnosis of Porcine Respiratory Disease Complex

Disease Managing disease Treatments and prevention

2 April 2014

3 minute read

Researchers at South Dakota State University report a study representing the 'proof of concept' phase for a simple and cost-effective on-farm diagnostic test for Porcine Respiratory Disease Complex (PRDC).

Testimonial from Maple Creek Lane on Absolute Swine Catheters

SPONSOR Genetics and reproduction Research and innovation Feed and nutrition

1 April 2014

8 minute read

World Feed Enzyme Market Value Estimated at US$1 Billion

Husbandry Research and innovation Herd management

1 April 2014

3 minute read

First PED Outbreak in Vermont; 28th US State Affected

Disease Notifiable diseases PRRS

1 April 2014

3 minute read

PRRS Virus Found at Another Swiss Pig Farm

Disease Managing disease Treatments and prevention

1 April 2014

2 minute read

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