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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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    August 2013

    Temperament Traits Related to Stress and Meat Quality: Are They Reliable and Heritable?

    Disease Genetics and reproduction Pig Welfare
    calendar icon 15 August 2013
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    Initial results of work at the Prairie Swine Centre described in the Annual Report 2012-2013 indicate that finishing pigs can be selected for a reduced stress response.

    Risk Factors for the Transmission of FMD during the 2010 Outbreak in Japan: a Case-control Study

    Disease Managing disease Treatments and prevention
    calendar icon 14 August 2013
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    Looking at the spread of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), researchers in Japan found that physical barriers helped to reduce the spread of infection in those areas where animal movements were forbidden. In shipment restriction areas, however, it was movements of people and vehicles that were most strongly associated with disease spread. Some differences were observed in the spread between farms with cattle or pigs.

    Financial Implications of Installing Air Filtration Systems to Prevent PRRSV Infection in Large Sow Herds

    Disease Managing disease Husbandry
    calendar icon 14 August 2013
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    Using modelling, researchers in the US found that the installation of air filters to pig houses to keep out the porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) virus could result in almost 6,000 more pigs being produced from a 3,000-sow herd. This additional output alone led them to calculate a pay-back period of around five to seven years for the investment.

    Effect of Dietary Citrus Pulp on Growth, Feed Efficiency, Carcass Merit and Lean Quality of Finishing Pigs

    Disease Husbandry Markets
    calendar icon 14 August 2013
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    Florida-based researchers have found that a finisher diet could contain 15 per cent ensiled whole citrus pulp or pressed citrus pulp without adverse effects on pig performance or meat quality.

    Neutralising Antibodies against PCV2 in Plasma Contribute to the Biosafety of Commercial Spray-dried Porcine Plasma

    Disease Managing disease Husbandry
    calendar icon 14 August 2013
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    A type of antibody against porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) in spray-dried porcine plasma represents an effective biosafety step in the manufacturing process of the product as a feed ingredient for young pigs, according to new research from the US and Spain.

    Concrete Slat Compliance. 1 – Slot Reducers

    Disease Pig Welfare Husbandry
    calendar icon 14 August 2013
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    A report of BPEX trials testing new floor slot reduction and closure techniques for British pig production, published as No. 17 in its 'Research into Action' series.

    Germany Measures Antibiotic Use on Farms

    Husbandry Market Trends Sustainability
    calendar icon 13 August 2013
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