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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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    February 2015

    European Welfare Group Calls for Action on Pig Castration

    Disease Pig Welfare Castration
    calendar icon 24 February 2015
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    Comparable Farrowing Progress in Confined and Loose-housed Hyper-prolific Sows

    Disease Genetics and reproduction Pig Welfare
    calendar icon 24 February 2015
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    A new Danish study reveals that confinement in a farrowing crate before and during farrowing did not affect farrowing progress of sows but confinement of the sows for four days after farrowing reduced piglet mortality.

    Feeding Reduced Crude Protein Diets with Crystalline Amino Acid Supplementation Reduce Air Gas Emissions from Housing

    Disease Husbandry Environmental management
    calendar icon 24 February 2015
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    Researchers at Michigan State University have found that it is possible to reduce ammonia emissions from growing-finishing pigs without sacrificing performance by reducing the crude protein level in the diet and using amino acids to ensure the pigs' requirements are met.

    Survey of Serum Vitamin D Status across Stages of Swine Production and Evaluation of Vitamin D Premixes

    Disease Husbandry Herd management
    calendar icon 24 February 2015
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    Subclinical hypovitaminosis D appears to be more common than previously thought, especially in commercial pigs kept indoors, according to a new study at Iowa State University.

    Nitrous Oxide for Piglet Euthanasia

    Disease Pig Welfare
    calendar icon 24 February 2015
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    A study at the University of Melbourne in Australia has demonstrated that 90 per cent nitrous oxide in air can effectively euthanise piglets.

    Weekly Overview: Pig Sector Faces Market Challenges

    Disease Pig Welfare Markets
    calendar icon 23 February 2015
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    AB Vista to Show Benefits of Optimised Enyzme Use at VIV Asia

    Husbandry Research and innovation Industry and legislation
    calendar icon 23 February 2015
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