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Jackie Linden

Another Year Pig Producers Would Prefer to Forget?

Husbandry Markets Industry and legislation

18 February 2016

5 minute read

Feed Grains Markets Grow in a Shrinking World

Husbandry Markets Industry and legislation

29 October 2015

7 minute read

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

Disease Husbandry Herd management

11 September 2015

7 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

6 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

4 minute read

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

June 2013

Vegetative Environmental Buffers for Odour Mitigation

Husbandry Environmental management Herd management

19 June 2013

16 minute read

Vegetative Environmental Buffers (VEB) can play a useful role in livestock and poultry odour mitigation, according to John C. Tyndall and G.L. Drake Larsen of Iowa State University. They cover VEB design considerations and the financial aspects of using VEBs in a factsheet for Pork Information Gateway.

Cleaning and Disinfection with Virkon S Reduces Lawsonia intracellularis Survival and Transmission to Naive Pigs

Disease Managing disease Treatments and prevention

18 June 2013

2 minute read

Washing pens followed by disinfection with potassium peroxymonosulphate prevented the transmission of Lawsonia intracellularis in this Australian experiment.

FAO Food Outlook June 2013: Pig Meat

Markets

18 June 2013

7 minute read

Pig meat is expected to remain the world's top meat this year with an increase of 1.5 per cent to a little over 114 million tonnes, according to the latest 'Food Outlook' report from the FAO. It forecasts pig meat trade down by four per cent from 2012.

Flooring

Disease Managing disease Pig Welfare

18 June 2013

4 minute read

Advice on floor types and maintenance to reduce leg problems and improve health and hygiene in no. 37 in the 'Action for Productivity' series from BPEX.

Prevalence and Characterisation of Verotoxigenic-E. coli Isolates from Pigs in Malaysia

Disease Husbandry Market Trends

18 June 2013

3 minute read

Verotoxigenic E. coli (VTEC) was identified on six pig farms in Malaysia by researchers based in Kuala Lumpur. Prevalence was low but all isolates showed multi-drug resistance.

Composting Hog-Sourced Organic Fertiliser May Mitigate Phosphorus Levels

SPONSOR Husbandry Environmental management Herd management

18 June 2013

4 minute read

At Canada's National Centre for Livestock and the Environment (NCLE), a researcher is looking into centrifuge-type separation of pig manure combined with composting to comply with forthcoming new North American regulations. Glenn Kuhn, Swine Technical Manager with Genesus Inc. reports.

Weekly Overview: Biosecurity Hits the Headlines

Husbandry Feed and nutrition Biodigestion & Biofuels

17 June 2013

3 minute read

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