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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.

November 2014

Clinical Efficiency of Vetrimoxin LA in Control of Early Mortality in Suckling Piglets

SPONSOR Genetics and reproduction Husbandry Research and innovation

14 November 2014

3 minute read

Retrofitting for Group Housing of Sows

Disease Pig Welfare Group housing sows

14 November 2014

11 minute read

This paper, presented at the 2014 London Swine Conference by Sylven Blouin of Agri-Marché in St-Isidore in the Province of Quebec, describes the conversion of two farrow-to-finish units to group housing.

Normal and Abnormal Behaviours of Swine under Production Conditions

Disease Pig Welfare Tail biting

14 November 2014

16 minute read

Yuzhi Li of the University of Minnesota explains the sensory capacities of pigs, describes their normal behavioural patterns and shares understanding of abnormal behaviour and its possible causes in a factsheet for Pork Information Gateway.

EUROTIER: Seeking Solutions to Antibiotic Resistance

Husbandry Industry and legislation Conferences & Events

13 November 2014

6 minute read

New PED Outbreak in Ontario

Disease Notifiable diseases PRRS

13 November 2014

2 minute read

Day-to-Day Management of Group Housed Gestating Sows

Disease Genetics and reproduction Pig Welfare

13 November 2014

7 minute read

With group housing systems, stockpeople need to evaluate sows carefully and be prepared to remedy any problems quickly, according to Beth Ferry (Extension Educator in Cassopolis, Michigan) and Ronald O. Bates (State Swine Specialist, Michigan State University) in the latest issue of 'MSU Pork Quarterly'.

EUROTIER: Forum for 21st Century Animal Husbandry

Markets Research and innovation Industry and legislation

12 November 2014

8 minute read

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