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Jackie Linden

Another Year Pig Producers Would Prefer to Forget?

Husbandry Markets Industry and legislation

18 February 2016

4 minute read

Feed Grains Markets Grow in a Shrinking World

Husbandry Markets Industry and legislation

29 October 2015

6 minute read

Role of Dietary Fibre in Diets for Growing Pigs - Part 2

Disease Husbandry Herd management

11 September 2015

6 minute read

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

28 August 2015

5 minute read

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

21 August 2015

3 minute read

Wheat distillers dried grains with solubles (wDDGS) is a promising type of crop co-product which can be used in animal feed.

October 2013

Ireland: Sectoral Road Map: Pigs

Markets

2 October 2013

3 minute read

A look ahead for the Irish pig industry to 2020 from Teagasc. How will the industry be then and what challenges does it face along the way?

Niacin Supplementation Increases the Number of Oxidative Type I Fibres in Muscle of Growing Pigs

Disease Husbandry Markets

2 October 2013

2 minute read

Included in the diet of growing pigs at a pharmacological dose, niacin (a B-vitamin) caused a switch in muscle fibres that is associated with a meat quality defect, dark, firm and dry (DFD) pork.

Enumeration of Salmonella throughout the Pork Harvesting Process

Processing Processing Industry and legislation

2 October 2013

1 minute read

Research from Nebraska shows that, while Salmonella were present on the skins of almost all pig carcasses immediately after slaughter, only around six per cent of chilled final carcasses were positive for Salmonella and the majority of those had so few bacteria that they could not be counted.

Gain Time by Cleaning, Says CID Lines

SPONSOR Disease Managing disease Research and innovation

1 October 2013

1 minute read

UK's New Code for Veterinary Medicine Promotion Comes into Effect

Research and innovation Industry and legislation Feed and nutrition

1 October 2013

1 minute read

Floor Slat Gap Cover Has Many Uses

Husbandry Industry and legislation Feed and nutrition

1 October 2013

2 minute read

A Danish company has designed and patented a slat gap cover to help pig producers comply with regulations and/or marketing standards in pig housing, writes Stuart Lumb for ThePigSite.

Comparing Minimum Inhibitory Concentration and Minimum Bactericidal Concentration Results for Brachyspira Species – What is the Difference?

SPONSOR Disease Research and innovation Industry and legislation

1 October 2013

2 minute read

Antibiotics tested, which are classified as bacteriostatic against Brachyspira, have bactericidal properties at approximately double the minimum inhibitory concentration, according to new research from the UK by David Burch and others.

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