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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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    April 2013

    Prolonged Duration of Farrowing is Associated with Subsequent Decreased Fertility in Sows

    Genetics and reproduction Husbandry Feed and nutrition
    calendar icon 4 April 2013
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    Sows with prolonged farrowing had higher returns after first insemination after weaning, according to new research from Finland. There were no effects on other parameters of fertility measured, nor of sow housing system (crate versus pen).

    Effects of Heat Stress and Plane of Nutrition on Metabolism in Growing Pigs

    Disease Husbandry Environmental management
    calendar icon 4 April 2013
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    Reduced feed intake alone does not explain the changes in performance of pigs weighing around 35kg, according to researchers at Iowa State University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Heat-stressed pigs had distinctly different post-absorptive bioenergetic variables from the pair-fed controls.

    Spatial Ecology of Free-ranging Domestic Pigs in Western Kenya

    Disease Pig Welfare Husbandry
    calendar icon 3 April 2013
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    Following a first study of the natural ranging behaviour of free-range pigs, researchers say that the wide areas covered by the animals has important implications for the control of porcine and zoonotic diseases.

    Weekly Overview: Significant Advance Made in Disease Control

    calendar icon 2 April 2013
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    New Report on Farming's Impact on Antibiotic Resistance

    Husbandry Industry and legislation Policy and regulation
    calendar icon 2 April 2013
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    Zoetis Looks to the Future

    Research and innovation Feed and nutrition Company/Products
    calendar icon 2 April 2013
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    Global Feed to Meat Industry Propelled VIV Asia to New Heights

    Research and innovation Industry and legislation Conferences & Events
    calendar icon 2 April 2013
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