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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.

May 2015

A Longitudinal Survey of African Swine Fever in Uganda

Disease Notifiable diseases African swine fever

25 May 2015

4 minute read

There was a high incidence of African swine fever in an important pig-producing area of Uganda but researchers did not detect persistent virus infections in blood or serum.

Effects of Space Allocation and Parity on Group-housed Gestating Sows

Disease Genetics and reproduction Pig Welfare

25 May 2015

3 minute read

At the stocking densities used in this Australian study, stocking density, parity and space allocation had minimal effects on commonly-used welfare measures although the older sows had larger litters when the had more space.

Uganda Pig Feed Trials Show Benefits of Local Feed Solutions

Disease Husbandry Herd management

19 May 2015

5 minute read

Report on an investigation by the CGIAR Livestock and Fish research program aimed at improving pig feeding on Ugandan smallholdings by Brian Kawuma for the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI).

Weekly Overview: Looking Forward to the Future of the Pig Industry

Disease Pig Welfare Industry and legislation

18 May 2015

3 minute read

Update on Swine Enteric Coronavirus Disease in US

Disease Notifiable diseases PRRS

18 May 2015

5 minute read

African Swine Fever in Three Lithuanian Wild Boar

Disease Notifiable diseases African swine fever

18 May 2015

2 minute read

Feeding of Fermented DDGS in a Liquid Feed System to Weanling Pigs

Disease Husbandry Industry and legislation

14 May 2015

7 minute read

The success of feeding fermented distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) to weaned pigs in the nursery phase depended on the addition of enzymes and microbial inoculants as well as the pigs' initial feed intake in this University of Guelph experiment. C.F.M. de Lange also stressed to the 2015 Centralia Swine Research Update the importance of controlling the fermentation process for a consistent product.

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