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Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Nigeria's farmers cull thousands of pigs
Farmers in Nigeria have killed thousands of pigs due to ASF infections that affected the region's largest market for the animal, BNN Bloomberg reported.
Monday, June 22, 2020
Building resilient pigs and sustainable environments
The impending phase-out of the use of zinc oxide (ZnO) in the European Union (EU) taking effect in 2021 creates a challenge for producers who will be raising healthy piglets without ZnO. Anticipating this shift away from ZnO, the industry i ...
Thursday, April 30, 2020
India's Assam pigs die from suspected ASF, likely from China
The mysterious deaths of over 2,000 pigs in six districts of Assam, India is likely due to the highly contagious ASF, which might have passed from Tibet in China through Arunachal Pradesh, agriculture and veterinary minister Atul Bora said, ...
Monday, November 11, 2019
Australia creates new position to deal with feral pigs as ASF threat mounts
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Tuesday, June 4, 2019
Lallemand's yeast probiotic for pigs approved for use in EU
Lallemand has announced that its live yeast probiotic strain Saccharomyces cerevisiae boulardii CNCM I-1079 (LEVUCELL SB) is now authorised as a feed additive for use in all pigs in the EU.
Monday, June 3, 2019
Lallemand's yeast probiotic for pigs approved for use in EU
Lallemand has announced that its live yeast probiotic strain Saccharomyces cerevisiae boulardii CNCM I-1079 (LEVUCELL SB) is now authorised as a feed additive for use in all pigs in the EU.
Monday, May 13, 2019
Use of feed from China to feed US pigs raises concerns of swine fever infections
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Thursday, September 6, 2018
In an industry first, Evonik launches SID database for weaner pigs
Evonik has launched a new standardized ileal digestibility (SID) database for swine feeds which - for the first time - provides SID values of all amino acids for weaners, as well as for grower pigs.
Sunday, July 15, 2018
Trade wars and beans, pigs and broken wallets: The impact of Chinese tariffs and US farm incomes
Impacting more than mere export volumes, China's market weight can deflate returns on domestic crops and herds. From trading floors to Midwestern farms, plunging widening spreads between North and South American soybeans are impacting botto ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
US university develops new soy concentrate for weanling pigs
A new source of soy protein concentrate that can be used in diets fed to weanling pigs without negatively affecting digestibility of energy or nutrients has been developed by the University of Illinois in the US.
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
The use of medium chain fatty acids as alternatives to antibiotic use in pigs
Worldwide there is a clear demand to reduce the antibiotic use in livestock farming to reduce the risk for antibiotic resistance. Medium chain fatty acids are well known to exert excellent antimicrobial properties. For this reason they are ...

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