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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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    Impact of Dietary Protein Source on Life Cycle Assessment of UK Pig Production

    Disease Husbandry Environmental management
    calendar icon 27 July 2012
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    Crop production for feed is the main contributor to environmental impacts of pig production systems, according to K.L. Stephen in her thesis from 2011. The results of her study suggest there is scope to lower the overall environmental impact by using home-grown peas, beans or lupins as the main protein source, rather than imported soybean meal.

    Antimicrobial Resistance, Serotypes and Virulence Factors of Streptococcus suis Isolates from Diseased Pigs

    Disease
    calendar icon 25 July 2012
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    Streptococcus suis isolates obtained from diseased pigs in China were found by resarchers in Guangzhou to be genetically diverse, resistant to multiple antibiotics and carry known virulence factors.

    Serological and Bacteriological Survey of Brucellosis in Wild Boar in Belgium

    Disease
    calendar icon 25 July 2012
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    More than half of the wild boar tested in Belgium were positive for brucellosis and seroprevalences appear to be increasing, which represents a growing risk to outdoor pig farms, according to new research from Liège.

    This Week's Pig Industry News

    Industry and legislation Policy and regulation Government and regulatory
    calendar icon 23 July 2012
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    Important Amendment Included in Farm Bill

    Disease Pig Welfare Markets
    calendar icon 23 July 2012
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    Russian Authority Clamps Down on ASF

    Disease Notifiable diseases African swine fever
    calendar icon 23 July 2012
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    New Carcass Grading Method Authorised for Denmark

    Disease Pig Welfare Markets
    calendar icon 18 July 2012
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