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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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    December 2013

    Responsible and Prudent Use of Antibiotics on Irish Pig Farms

    Disease Husbandry People
    calendar icon 5 December 2013
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    Denis Healy, a veterinary inspector with the Irish agriculture department, explained the concept of antibiotic resistance and what pig farmers and their vets need to do to minimise risks to the Teagasc Pig Farmers Conference in October 2013.

    Transitioning Quality Pigs from the Sow to the Nursery Phase

    Disease Husbandry Herd management
    calendar icon 5 December 2013
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    Tips on weaner management - especially of the smaller and poor quality pigs - from Michigan State University Extension Educators, Beth Ferry and Thomas Guthrie in 'MSU Pork Quarterly'.

    Return to Swill Feeding Could Cost the Pig Industry 3300 Million

    Disease Managing disease Markets
    calendar icon 4 December 2013
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    Pig Semen Deal with China Could Be Worth 345M to UK Firms

    Genetics and reproduction Research and innovation Feed and nutrition
    calendar icon 4 December 2013
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    Porcine Pleuropneumonia Caused by Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae

    Disease
    calendar icon 4 December 2013
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    The aetiology, clinical signs and control of porcine pleuropneumonia (PPP) are outlined by Marcelo Gottschalk of the University of Montreal and André Broes of BiovetInc (both in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada). They say that while PPP is generally well controlled in the US and Canada. it remains a concern for some producers and their veterinarians.

    EU-funded Research into Precision Livestock Farming

    Disease Pig Welfare
    calendar icon 4 December 2013
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    Two projects funded by the European Union into Precision Livestock Farming - one complete and one on-going - are described in a new European Commission report, 'A Decade of EU-funded Animal Production Research'.

    Economic Analysis Reveals How Pork Producers Can Profit from Intact Boars

    Husbandry Markets Research and innovation
    calendar icon 3 December 2013
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