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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 2012

Pigs and the Environment

SPONSOR Husbandry Environmental management Market Trends

30 June 2012

6 minute read

An assessment by the British Pig Executive (BPEX) of the impact of pork production on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and how the sector is reducing its impact in China, USA, Canada, Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Russia, Australia and New Zealand.

Selection for Resistance to Swine Mycoplasmal Pneumonia over Five Generations in Landrace Pigs

Disease Genetics and reproduction Genetics and traits

28 June 2012

3 minute read

Good genetic progress was achieved over five generations for both disease resistance and high meat production, according to new research from Japan.

This Week's Pig Industry News

Industry and legislation Product quality and safety Food safety

25 June 2012

4 minute read

Evidence for a Major QTL Associated with Host Response to PRRS Virus Challenge

Disease Genetics and reproduction Genetics and traits

21 June 2012

4 minute read

Experimental Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) virus challenge resulted in an immune response with a strong genetic component, according to researchers based in the US and New Zealand. They also found that a Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) on chromosome 4 explains a substantial proportion of the genetic variance they observed.

Private Industry Invests Heavily into Agricultural Productivity

Disease Genetics and reproduction Husbandry

19 June 2012

11 minute read

Private sector firms are becoming leaders in developing new innovations in agriculture, according to Keith Fuglie, Paul Heisey, John King and David Schimmelpfennig for the USDA Economic Research Service, writing in Amber Waves.

New Report Identifies Multi-Million-Pound Boost for UK Meat Industry

Husbandry Environmental management Markets

18 June 2012

4 minute read

This Week's Pig Industry News

Markets

18 June 2012

4 minute read

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