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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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    November - December 2013

    Lack of Interference of Virginiamycin with Ileitis Immunisation

    Disease Managing disease Husbandry
    calendar icon 3 December 2013
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    There was no evidence that the administration of virginiamycin in the feed reduced the efficacy of ileitis immunisation in this US study.

    Behaviour and Handling of Physically and Immunologically Castrated Market Pigs

    Disease Pig Welfare Husbandry
    calendar icon 3 December 2013
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    Immunological castration resulted in similar or even improved animal welfare compared with boars subjected to physical castration in an experiment at Texas Tech University.

    Livestock and the Promise of Genomics

    Disease Genetics and reproduction Pig Welfare
    calendar icon 3 December 2013
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    Using examples in cattle and pigs, leading academics at the University of Alberta in Canada explain how the application of genomics offers huge potential to help feed the growing global human population with animal products sustainably.

    Characteristics of Organic Pig Farms in Selected EU Countries and Their Influence on Piglet Numbers

    Disease Genetics and reproduction Pig Welfare
    calendar icon 3 December 2013
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    Piglet mortality was higher on farms with larger average litter size, especially where there was a wide range in numbers born, according to a new study from the EU that examined the production records of a number of organic pig farms.

    Weekly Outlook: Is Any Progress Being Made on Control of Serious Pig Diseases?

    calendar icon 2 December 2013
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    FAO Reports Global Progress on African Swine Fever

    Disease Notifiable diseases African swine fever
    calendar icon 29 November 2013
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    Impact of Influenza A on Pork Production

    Disease Notifiable diseases H1N1 swine influenza
    calendar icon 29 November 2013
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    Our understanding of the importance of influenza A infection in pig production has evolved rapidly over the past 15 years. Greg Wideman of South West Ontario Veterinary Services explained the impacts of those developments to the 2013 London Swine Conference.
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