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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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    Fly Management Techniques

    Disease Managing disease Treatments and prevention
    calendar icon 4 June 2013
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    Measures for fly prevention on farms and and control measures are outlined in 'Fly management: How to comply with your environmental permit' from the UK's Environment Agency.

    Weekly Overview: Shuanghui-Smithfield Agreement Grabs Industry Attention

    Processing Processing Research and innovation
    calendar icon 3 June 2013
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    Starter Pig Amino Acid Requirements to Gut Health Concerns

    Disease Husbandry Industry and legislation
    calendar icon 31 May 2013
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    Formulation of starter diets for weaned piglets to lower-than-usual lysine decreases the requirement for expensive protein sources while having minimal effect on performance but it is crucial to pay attention to the levels of other amino acids relative to lysine, according to the K-State Swine Nutrition team of Mike Tokach, Bob Goodband, Joel deRouchey, Steve Dritz and Jim Nelssen. They were addressing the 2013 Kansas Swine Profitability Conference.

    Gilt Management: Service to Farrowing

    Genetics and reproduction
    calendar icon 31 May 2013
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    Gilt performance is a key element towards the productivity of the herd with between 20 and 25 per cent of production from gilts at any time. Investing in their future is essential, according to number 33 in the 'Action for Productivity' series from BPEX.

    OIE Adopts New Chapters on Animal Health, Welfare

    Industry and legislation Conferences & Events Policy and regulation
    calendar icon 30 May 2013
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    Investigation and Characterisation of Pathogenic and Molecular Differences in Atypical Brachyspira Clinical Isolates

    Disease
    calendar icon 30 May 2013
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    Polymerase chain reaction assays (PCR) have failed to identify some isolates (Brachyspira spp.) causing swine dysentery (SD) and Dr Eric Burrough of Iowa State University is caaling for a more consistent and accurate test than PCRs to confirm all potential clinical SD diagnoses.

    Investigation of Viral Diseases of Swine in the Republic of Haiti

    Disease
    calendar icon 30 May 2013
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    Following a field and laboratory investigations, a multi-national group of researchers has assessed the risk of introducing a whole range of viral diseases from the Republic of Haiti into the North American pig population as high.
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