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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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    Canadian Pig Industry Updates its Codes of Practice

    Disease Pig Welfare Industry and legislation
    calendar icon 1 March 2012
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    The pig industry in Canada is in the process of updating its codes on health and welfare, Florrian Possberg told the 2012 Banff Pork Seminar.

    Evaluating the Effects of Pelleting Deoxynivalenol-Contaminated DDGS with Sodium Metabisulphite on Analysed DON Levels

    Disease Husbandry Herd management
    calendar icon 28 February 2012
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    Conditioning temperature and retention time alone did not affect levels of the mycotoxin, deoxynivalenol (DON), in dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) from maize but pelleting DDGS reduced DON levels as the level of sodium metabisulphite (SMB) was increased to 2.5 per cent, according to research summarised in the latest newsletter from the Department of Animal Sciences and Industry at Kansas State University.

    Overview of This Week's Pig Industry News

    Markets
    calendar icon 27 February 2012
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    Logsdon Named CEO of The Maschhoffs

    Processing Processing Research and innovation
    calendar icon 27 February 2012
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    Clean Vehicle Programme to Cut Pig Diseases

    Disease Managing disease Processing
    calendar icon 24 February 2012
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    A study into vehicle cleaning facilities abattoirs was conducted by BPEX with the aim to reduce the risk of spreading diseases in the UK pig industry, according to Colin Stone of BPEX. As a result of the study, from April 2012, it will be required for adequate facilities for the cleaning and disinfection of livestock vehicles to be available at all times at abattoirs.

    Wild Boar: an Increasing Concern for Aujeszky’s Disease Control in Pigs?

    Disease
    calendar icon 23 February 2012
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    Studying the Aujeszky’s disease virus in wild boar over 10 years in six regions of Spain, researchers found the virus to be stable in the wild boar population, which increases the difficulties of eradicating the disease in domestic pigs in those regions.

    Effect of Olfactory Stimulation during Suckling on Agonistic Behaviour in Weaned Pigs

    Disease Pig Welfare Husbandry
    calendar icon 23 February 2012
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    The application of a banana scent to the skin of the mammary glands increased milk consumption by the piglets, according to researchers based in Espinardo, Spain. While the treatment did not affect post-weaning performance was applied to the feed trough, the presence of the banana scent during the suckling phase was associated with less aggressive behaviour in these piglets.
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