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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.

December 2014

Update on Swine Enteric Coronavirus Disease in US

Disease Notifiable diseases PRRS

15 December 2014

4 minute read

IPPE Offers Free Attendee Activities, Networking Opportunities

SPONSOR Research and innovation Industry and legislation Conferences & Events

12 December 2014

3 minute read

Improving Feed Efficiency

Disease Husbandry Industry and legislation

12 December 2014

6 minute read

Bruce Schumann of Grand Valley Fortifiers Ltd and Ruurd Zijlstra of the University of Alberta explained to the 2014 London Swine Conference how to improve feed efficiency in growing-finishing pigs by using feed additives or adjusting feed form, nutrient density or feed ingredients.

Protease Enzymes Make Lower-Cost Sorghum Viable in Animal Feed

SPONSOR Husbandry Research and innovation Herd management

11 December 2014

3 minute read

Pig Farmers Can Help with Early Detection of African Swine Fever

Disease Notifiable diseases African swine fever

11 December 2014

2 minute read

Worker Safety Education Programme Offered at 2015 IPPE

SPONSOR Processing Processing Research and innovation

11 December 2014

2 minute read

Swapping Litters

Genetics and reproduction

11 December 2014

3 minute read

Swapping whole litters will reduce the stress normally experienced by the piglets from being moved and mixed with a group of new litter mates, whilst providing the weaker piglets the opportunity to recover through improved milk intake, according to BPEX in no.12 in its 'Work Instructions' series.

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