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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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    January 2012

    Genomic Selection for Maternal Traits

    Genetics and reproduction Genetics and traits Genetics
    calendar icon 5 January 2012
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    According to Norwegian researchers, genomic selection increases genetic gain for traits that are measured on females, which includes several traits with economic importance in maternal pig breeds, and genotyping females is essential to obtain a high accuracy of selection.

    Investigation of an Outbreak of Mycobacteriosis in Serbia

    Disease Husbandry Herd management
    calendar icon 5 January 2012
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    After a number of pigs imported to Serbia reacted positively to avian and/or bovine tuberculin, Mycobacter avium subsp. hominissuis was found in porcine and environmental samples from the Lithuanian breeding herd and that peat in Lithuania was a source of infection in these pigs, according to researchers based in Norway.

    Longitudinal Study of Faecal Salmonella Shedding by Sows

    Disease Managing disease Genetics and reproduction
    calendar icon 5 January 2012
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    Scientists in Italy report that young sows are more likely to shed Salmonella than older animals, that the post-weaning period is the high-risk period for excretion of Salmonella and that good biosecurity can reduce the Salmonella risk in weaned sows.

    Quantification of Campylobacter in Swine before, during and after Slaughter

    Husbandry Processing Processing
    calendar icon 5 January 2012
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    After measuring Campylobacter levels in pigs on farm, in lairage and at various stages of processing, researchers based at Ohio State University concluded that the risk of a meat product being contaminated is associated with pigs that shed higher concentrations of Campylobacter before slaughter.

    Cautious Outlook for EU Meat Industry from Rabobank

    Markets
    calendar icon 4 January 2012
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    Pig News Round-Up

    Markets
    calendar icon 3 January 2012
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    New Terminology for Flu Virus Infecting Humans

    calendar icon 3 January 2012
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