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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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    May 2012

    EU Pig Meat Production – 2011

    Markets
    calendar icon 18 May 2012
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    Total pig meat output for the 27 countries of the European Union was more than 22.3 million tonnes in 2011, 1.6 per cent or almost 343,000 tonnes more than the previous year, writes senior editor, Jackie Linden.

    Evaluation of the Long–Term Effect of Air Filtration on the Occurrence of New PRRSV Infections

    Disease Husbandry Environmental management
    calendar icon 16 May 2012
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    Air filtration had a long–term effect in reducing the occurrence of new porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) infections in large breeding herds in regions densely populated with pigs, according to new research from Minnesota, US.

    Non–Tuberculous Mycobacteria Isolated from Slaughter Pigs in Uganda

    Disease Industry and legislation Product quality and safety
    calendar icon 16 May 2012
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    There was a high prevalence of non–tuberculous mycobacteria infections among slaughter pigs in Mubende district in central Uganda. The most prevalent was M. avium, and outdoor systems and valley dam water were factors associated with higher prevalence, according to a team of international researchers based in Kampala and in Norway and the USA. This is an important public health issue, they add, because of the high prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the region.

    Reduction of Transport–Induced Stress on Finishing Pigs by Increasing Lairage Time

    Disease Pig Welfare Processing
    calendar icon 16 May 2012
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    A longer lairage time allowed the pigs transported a short distance to recover from transport stress, according to new research from Spain.

    Status of Animal Nutrition Research and Development in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan

    Disease Husbandry Markets
    calendar icon 15 May 2012
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    R&D status in research and development organisations and in the feed industries in each country as well as suggested animal nutrition approaches for livestock development are outlined by Harinder P.S. Makkar in a working paper in Animal Production and Health for the FAO.

    Overview of This Week’s Pig Industry News

    Markets
    calendar icon 14 May 2012
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    Alternative Strategies for Keeping Animals Healthy

    Industry and legislation Policy and regulation Government and regulatory
    calendar icon 14 May 2012
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