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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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    Risk Factors for Contacts between Wild Boar and Outdoor Pigs in Switzerland: Investigations on Potential Brucella suis Spill-over

    Disease
    calendar icon 7 August 2012
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    Based on a questionnaire, around one in four outdoor pig farmers reported contact between wild boar and domestic pigs. The country is officially free of brucellosis in domestic pigs. One farm was found to be positive although the source of infection was not identified.

    Major Meat Recall after Salmonella Test Positive

    Industry and legislation Product quality and safety Food safety
    calendar icon 1 August 2012
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    Comparison of Two Commercial Real-time Reverse Transcriptase PCR Assays for PRRS

    Disease
    calendar icon 31 July 2012
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    Neither of the two assays tested detected every positive case of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS), according to new research conducted at Iowa State University.

    Sero-epidemiologic Study of Reston Ebolavirus in Swine in the Philippines

    Disease Markets Market Trends
    calendar icon 31 July 2012
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    Seventy per cent of pigs sampled from farms infected with the Reston ebolavirus in two regions of the Philippines in 2008 were positive for REBOV antibodies, according to new research, indicating that pigs are susceptible to infection by this virus.

    Jatropha as a New Livestock Feed Resource

    Disease Husbandry Herd management
    calendar icon 31 July 2012
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    FAO is encouraging the use of co-products of the energy crop, Jatropha, as new livestock feed resources to reduce food-feed competition.

    This Week's Pig Industry News

    Husbandry Herd management Feed and nutrition
    calendar icon 30 July 2012
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    Eight Pig Carcass Grading Methods Approved

    Markets Processing Processing
    calendar icon 30 July 2012
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