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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

EUROTIER: Seeking Solutions to Antibiotic Resistance

Husbandry Industry and legislation Conferences & Events

12 November 2014

6 minute read

New Study on Animal Welfare Legislation

Disease Pig Welfare

12 November 2014

5 minute read

Animal Welfare Plays an Important Role in Sustainable Development

Husbandry Research and innovation Industry and legislation

12 November 2014

5 minute read

Evaluating Low-fat DDGS for Use in Swine Diets

Disease Husbandry Herd management

12 November 2014

3 minute read

Swine nutritionists using low-fat distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) may have to formulate diets based on lower values for amino acid digestibility than conventional DDGS.

Award for Sunnyside Colony of Manitoba

SPONSOR Genetics and reproduction Research and innovation Feed and nutrition

11 November 2014

2 minute read

Effects of Antimicrobial Peptides in Diets for Nursery Pigs

Disease Husbandry Herd management

11 November 2014

3 minute read

In a Chinese study carried out on five commercial farms, weaning piglets receiving a diet supplemented with antimicrobial peptides had less diarrhoea and a higher survival rate than those on a similar diet without the supplement.

Impact of Ceftiofur on the Dissemination of Resistant Enteric Bacteria in Finishing Swine

Disease Husbandry Market Trends

11 November 2014

2 minute read

Ceftiofur-based products are widely used in finishing pigs in the US and E.coli bacteria are found widely in manure but not with resistance genes, according to Dr Thomas Wittum of Ohio State University, leading him to conclude that antibiotic use alone is a poor predictor of increased resistance genes in bacterial pathogens.

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