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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.

January 2012

This Week's Pig News Round-Up

Disease Notifiable diseases African swine fever

16 January 2012

5 minute read

New ASF Outbreaks in Russia and Africa

Disease Notifiable diseases African swine fever

16 January 2012

4 minute read

Experimental Porcine Circovirus Type 1 (PCV1) Infections in Mid-Gestational Porcine Foetuses

Disease

11 January 2012

3 minute read

PCV1 was generally thought to be non-pathogenic to pigs and this is among the first papers to be published on infections in piglets before birth. The virus can replicate and may produce pathology in the lungs of porcine foetuses inoculated at 55-days of foetal life, according to new research from the University of Ghent.

Factors Associated with the Occurrence of MRSA CC398 in Fattening Pigs in Germany

Disease Industry and legislation Product quality and safety

11 January 2012

3 minute read

Just over half (52 per cent) of the farms tested had pigs that tested positive for this type of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), according to researchers at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment.

Production Characteristics, Disease Prevalence and Herd Health Management in SE Nigeria

Disease

11 January 2012

3 minute read

Efforts should be made to encourage better management and reduce diseases in order to improve pig performance in the region, according to resarchers at the University of Nigeria, and they recommend that public health risks associated with Brucella and trypanosome infections need to be addressed.

Energy Use and Nutrient Cycling in Pig Production Systems

Husbandry Environmental management Feed and nutrition

10 January 2012

8 minute read

Researchers explored all aspects of energy use in hog production from the perspective of two systems currently in use in Iowa – conventional confinement systems and bedded hoop barns, according to the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture.

This Week's Pig News Round-Up

Markets

9 January 2012

4 minute read

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