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Dr. Paul Sundberg recognized with Distinguished Service Award

Disease Notifiable diseases Husbandry

18 March 2024

2 minute read

Why monitor swine herds for PCV2?

SPONSOR Non-notifiable diseases PCV Treatments and prevention

23 August 2023

7 minute read

An interview with Noel Garbes, DVM – Senior Technical Services Veterinarian, Zoetis

Innovation: HyLife weaning ramp wins Aherne Prize at 2023 Banff Pork Seminar

Production stages Nursery/weaner Treatments and prevention

13 January 2023

2 minute read

Learn more about this new industry innovation

ADM launches new sweetening feed products for piglets

Herd management Feed and nutrition

22 November 2022

2 minute read

Designed to improve the palatability of feed for weanling pigs

Dr. Kenneth Stalder: global pork industry mourns his loss

Pig Welfare Herd management Sow management

5 November 2022

6 minute read

Iowa State University professor, well-known for research his sow lameness, productivity and longevity, has passed away

July 2021

New trial from AHDB saves UK pig industry over £15 million

Research and innovation Herd management Production Management

21 July 2021

5 minute read

AHDB’s accelerated ammonia monitoring trial shows that the British pig industry is successfully reducing ammonia emissions, saving producers an estimated £15.3 million.

China's African swine fever control situation remains complicated, say officials

Disease Notifiable diseases African swine fever

21 July 2021

3 minute read

China's efforts to control African swine fever outbreaks among its pig herd remained complicated, with 11 outbreaks officially reported so far this year and new variants of the virus also present, an agriculture ministry official said.

China’s ag ministry confirms 11 ASF outbreaks in latest statement

Disease Notifiable diseases African swine fever

20 July 2021

3 minute read

Officials from China’s agriculture ministry told reporters that China’s use of wheat in pig feed is expected to remain high and that the country has had 11 African swine fever outbreaks this year.

UK to test its ASF contingency plans with Exercise Holly

Disease Notifiable diseases African swine fever

20 July 2021

5 minute read

Government departments across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will test African swine fever (ASF) contingency plans in Exercise Holly to learn how to contain and supress the deadly pig disease.

Germany has another African swine fever case in farm pigs

Disease Notifiable diseases African swine fever

19 July 2021

3 minute read

A third case of African swine fever (ASF) was confirmed over the weekend in farm pigs in the eastern German state of Brandenburg, German authorities said.

China's hog prices to extend rebound in near future, government official says

Disease Notifiable diseases African swine fever

19 July 2021

3 minute read

China's hog prices will continue to rebound in the short term, an official from the country's state planner said on Monday 19 July, after a decline in the number of pigs born at the start of the year.

Veterinarian from Western Canada wins top US swine award

Husbandry Research and innovation Industry and legislation

16 July 2021

5 minute read

Egan Brockhoff, DVM, president and managing partner of Prairie Swine Health Services in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada will receive the 2021 Allen D Leman Science in Practice Award in September.

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