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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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    October 2013

    New Tools for Precision Feeding

    Disease Husbandry Industry and legislation
    calendar icon 18 October 2013
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    NRC (2012) nutrient requirements models provide a useful tool to understand the complex interactions between feed intake, pig performance potentials, available feed ingredients, environmental conditions, carcass quality and nutrient requirements, according to C.F.M. de Lange of the University of Guelph. Speaking at the London Swine Conference 2013, he also discussed the limitations of the NRC models in relation to high-fibre feed ingredients.

    First Few Hours after Birth Determine Piglet Survival

    Genetics and reproduction
    calendar icon 17 October 2013
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    Recent research at the Danish Centre for Agriculture and Food (DCA) at Aarhus University on hypothermia in newborn piglets reveals that there are large differences in how effectively individual piglets recover from a drop in body temperature after birth. A number of ways were investigated to assess body temperature without handling the piglets.

    Effects of Altering the Omega-6 to Omega-3 Fatty Acid Ratio in Starter Diets on Piglet Inflammatory Response

    Disease Husbandry Markets
    calendar icon 16 October 2013
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    Weaner pigs fed diets containing different ratios of n-6 to n-3 fatty acid ratios responded differently to an immune challenge, according to new research from the Prairie Swine Centre.

    Survey of Visitors on Swedish Livestock Farms with Reference to the Spread of Animal Diseases

    Disease Managing disease Treatments and prevention
    calendar icon 16 October 2013
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    From a survey of Swedish livestock farms, it was revealed that the average number of professional and non-professional visitors per day was 0.3 and 0.8, respectively. The number of visits was affected by herd size, farm type and season, which has implications for farm biosecurity and the potential for the spread of diseases.

    Evaluation of Envelope Proteins for Rapid Induction of Protective Immune Response against Classical Swine Fever

    Disease Managing disease Treatments and prevention
    calendar icon 16 October 2013
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    Researchers at Plum Island Animal Disease Center describe their progress in developing an improved vaccine to protect pigs against Classical Swine Fever.

    Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Pig and Chicken Supply Chains

    Disease Husbandry Environmental management
    calendar icon 16 October 2013
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    This new report from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) presents the results from an assessment carried out to improve the understanding of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions along livestock supply chains for pigs, poultry meat and eggs.

    MIC Results of Brachyspira hyodysenteriae Strains Recently Isolated Swine Dysentery Outbreaks in South and South East Brazil

    Disease Husbandry Research and innovation
    calendar icon 15 October 2013
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    Patterns of Minimum Inhibitory Concentrations (MIC) of various antibiotics to local strains of Brachyspira hyodysenteriae - the pathogen that causes swine dysentery - have been investigated in Brazil and reported by Roberto Maurício Carvalho Guedes.
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