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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 2013

    Influence of Dietary Restriction Before and After 10 Weeks of Age on Osteochondrosis in Growing Gilts

    Disease Genetics and reproduction Pig Welfare
    calendar icon 26 November 2013
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    Restricted feeding after 10 weeks of age reduced the prevalence of osteochondrosis in breeding gilts in a Wageningen University trial.

    Health and Welfare of Organic Pigs in Europe Assessed with Animal-based Parameters

    Disease Genetics and reproduction Pig Welfare
    calendar icon 26 November 2013
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    Assessing the welfare of breeding and feeding pigs in several European countries, a multinational group identified a number of management and welfare indicators with potential for use in the assessment and improvement of organic herd health planning.

    Weekly Overview: How Much Does the Sow Stall Ban Cost?

    Disease Genetics and reproduction Pig Welfare
    calendar icon 25 November 2013
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    PED-Positive Submissions: No Sign of Decline in Positive Cases

    calendar icon 25 November 2013
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    Development of Ante- and Post-mortem Meat Inspection of Pigs as a Welfare Diagnostic Tool (PIGWELFIND): Research Update

    Disease Pig Welfare Processing
    calendar icon 22 November 2013
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    Tail-biting has a significant and greatly underestimated economic impact on the profitability of pig farming, Dr Dayane Teixeira and Dr Laura Boyle of Teagasc, Moorepark told the Teagasc Pig Farmers Conference in October 2013. In their study, the estimated cost of tail-biting per pig was €1.69.

    Greener and Fairer Agricultural Policy Approved

    Husbandry Environmental management Markets
    calendar icon 21 November 2013
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    Meteorological Effects on Seasonal Infertility in Pigs

    Genetics and reproduction
    calendar icon 21 November 2013
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    A study at Leeds University in the UK shows it is important for farmers to provide outdoor sows with methods to keep themselves comfortable throughout the year and, crucially, not only during the summer months. Painting outdoor huts white and insulation help to keep sows both comfortable and productive, while wallows and sprinklers need to be provided early in the year and throughout the summer months.
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