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Wednesday, December 27, 2017
Sichuan's Tie Qi Li Shi Group imports 1,000 Canadian GP pigs
On November 23, 2017, the 1,000 Canadian Grandparent pigs imported by Tie Qi Li Shi Group arrived at Changsha Huanghua International Airport in Hunan Province.
Friday, November 10, 2017
Effect of supplementation of lecithin and carnitine on growth performance and nutrient digestibility in pigs fed high-fat diet
It was concluded that the dietary inclusion of animal fat at 5% level or animal fat along with lecithin (0.5%) and carnitine (150 mg/kg) improved the growth performance in pigs than non-supplemented group and from the economic point of view ...
Thursday, August 17, 2017
Post weaning diarrhea in pigs: risk factors and non-colistin-based control strategies
Post-weaning diarrhea (PWD) is one of the most serious threats for the swine industry worldwide. It is commonly associated with the proliferation of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli in the pig intestine. Colistin, a cationic antibiotic, is ...
Saturday, June 24, 2017
Pigs and chickens, fish and milk: Europe's emerging agribusiness exporting machine
- Protein exports have grown by 121% and 8.2% annual rate in the ten years since 2007 - Luck and a strategic redirection of exports into Asia more than compensated for the loss of Russia's market - New emerging exporters like Spain, Turkey ...
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Topigs Norsvin to open artificial insemination facility in Norway
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Monday, May 8, 2017
Trouw Nutrition: Increasing feed intake of nursery pigs with hydroxy trace minerals
A study performed in the Netherlands shows that hydroxy trace minerals can improve palatability of piglet diets over sulphate mineral sources, Trouw Nutrition states.
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
HKScan reports positive results with Topigs' swine breed
HKScan was one of the first to use the TN70 swine breed developed by Topigs Norsvin, and has reported positive results.
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
The use of Lactobacillus as an alternative of antibiotic growth promoters in pigs: a review
Antibiotics, often supplemented in feed, used as a growth promoter, may cause their residual effect in animal produce and also trigger antibiotic resistance in bacteria, which is of serious concern among swine farming entrepreneurs. As an a ...
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Apramycin treatment affects selection and spread of a multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli strain able to colonise the human gut in the intestinal microbiota of pigs
The effect of apramycin treatment on transfer and selection of an Escherichia coli strain (E. coli 912) in the intestine of pigs was analyzed through an in vivo experiment. The strain was sequenced and assigned to the sequence type ST101 an ...
Friday, February 24, 2017
Raising pigs antibiotic-free thanks to algae
Concerns on the emergence of antibiotic resistance are calling for innovative technologies that provide alternatives to antibiotics for use in animal health and production, in a One Health approach. In this context, based on its innovative ...
Monday, February 13, 2017
Cargill: What pigs eat matters to millennials
As consumer demand for pork remains high, millennial consumers say that what pigs eat has a strong influence on their pork-buying habits, according to a Cargill Feed4Thought consumer survey.
Monday, February 13, 2017
Chinese producer to use Topigs Norsvin genetics
Huanshan Group in China has chosen to use Topigs Norsvin genetics to populate its new nucleus farm of 2,500 sows.
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Number of pigs in Ukraine drops below 7 million
The number of pigs in Ukraine as of Jan. 1 this year has declined by 5.5% to an estimated 6.69 million. The decrease is equivalent to 390,000 heads from 2015, according to data released by the State Statistics Service of Ukraine and compile ...
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
US hogs, pigs inventory up 4%
US farms are populated by some 71.5 million hogs and pigs as of Dec. 1, up 4% from December 2015, and up slightly from Sept. 1, 2016, according to the Quarterly Hogs and Pigs report of the US Department of Agriculture's National Agricultura ...
Monday, January 9, 2017
Hypor collaborates to identify genetic basis of disease resilient pigs
New research that investigates the genetic ability for pigs to respond to disease challenges in a natural environment is underway thanks to the collaboration of Hypor, PigGen Canada, and a team of researchers from the Universities of Albert ...

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