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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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    February 2014

    Group Sow Housing: Practical Considerations

    Genetics and reproduction Husbandry Feed and nutrition
    calendar icon 5 February 2014
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    Information for producers and their advisers to help with the transition to group housing systems by Lee J. Johnston and Yuzhi Li from the West Central Research and Outreach Center at the University of Minnesota. They cover floor space allocation, feeding systems, managing sows in dynamic groups and husbandry skills.

    Oral Antimicrobials Increase Antimicrobial Resistance in Porcine E. coli

    Disease Husbandry Market Trends
    calendar icon 5 February 2014
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    Based on a literature review, German researchers have concluded that oral administration of antimicrobials increases the risk of antibiotic resistance developing in E. coli from pigs.

    Preliminary Study of the Effect of Sow Washing on-farm on Livestock-associated MRSA

    Disease Managing disease Husbandry
    calendar icon 5 February 2014
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    A small-scale study in Belgium found that washing sows was ineffective in reducing the number of MRSA bacteria present on the animals' skin or in the nostrils before farrowing.

    Variation among Sows in Response to Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome

    Disease Genetics and reproduction Genetics and traits
    calendar icon 5 February 2014
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    Dutch research shows that sows differ in their response to the Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) virus, opening up the prospect of using genetic selection to increase resistance to the disease.

    Higher Quarterly Gross Profit for Tyson Foods

    Processing Processing Research and innovation
    calendar icon 4 February 2014
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    Commissioner Hits Back at Russian Ban on EU Pig Meat

    Disease Notifiable diseases African swine fever
    calendar icon 3 February 2014
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    Weekly Overview: Pig Diseases Hit the Headlines

    calendar icon 3 February 2014
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