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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

The Indigenous Portuguese Bísaro Pig

Markets Market Trends Marketing pork

7 May 2015

3 minute read

Despite being one of the most emblematic Portuguese indigenous breeds, the Bisaro pig is very little known in Portugal.

Nutrient Value of Spray Field Forages Fed to Pigs and Use of Feed Enzymes to Enhance Nutrient Digestibility

Disease Husbandry Herd management

6 May 2015

4 minute read

Bermuda grass, forage sorghum and sweet sorghum can partly be utilised in pig feed to provide energy, according to new research from North Carolina State University, although nitrogen digestion was low.

Immune Response of Piglets on a PRRSV Vaccination

Disease Managing disease Husbandry

6 May 2015

3 minute read

This work sheds light on the development of the immune system in piglets following vaccination against Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome virus (PRRSV). Three feed additives had no effects on the pigs immune responses.

Susceptibility of 45 Recent French Field Isolates of Streptoccocus suis to Florfenicol

Disease Husbandry Market Trends

6 May 2015

2 minute read

Under the conditions of this French study, Streptococcus suis isolates collected from piglets in western France between 2011 and 2014 were sensitive to florfenicol.

Weekly Overview: Making Pig Production More Sustainable

Husbandry Herd management Feed and nutrition

5 May 2015

3 minute read

Plan Ahead for the Pig Innovation Conference

Disease Managing disease Industry and legislation

5 May 2015

2 minute read

Maple Leaf Turns from Quarterly Loss to Profit

Processing Processing Research and innovation

5 May 2015

5 minute read

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