EuroTier 2008 

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Drinkers tested on water use»

Reducing the amount of slurry is preferable for more than one reason – and it has become extra topical since the introduction of the IPPC legislation. Researchers at the Northern Irish Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute set out to find out which ...
30 Jun 2008

Contract growing turns rural lives around»

Farmers in Thailand have managed to improve their lives by joining a contract grower system. For this purpose, the country’s largest pork producer and processor Charoen Pokphand is running specific programmes.
01 May 2008

Column: what comes down from above and up from below»

Due to the adoption of all-in/ all-out, most people are paying more attention to sanitation these days.
01 Dec 2007

Column: detergents, underused in modern sanitation»

There have been some good articles in the pig press recently about piggery sanitation, filling in the rather large gaps in this subject in the pig textbooks I have on my shelves.
01 Nov 2007

Column: detergents, underused in modern sanitation»

There have been some good articles in the pig press recently about piggery sanitation, filling in the rather large gaps in this subject in the pig textbooks I have on my shelves.
01 Nov 2007

Group housing for sows 3. Welfare from a sow's perspective»

In the third and last episode of the series ‘Group housing for sows’, Pig Progress takes a closer look into the welfare aspects of group housing for sows. What do these systems look like when perceived through the eyes of sows?

 

01 Oct 2007

The importance of cleaning and disinfection control»

Many pig farmers are familiar with modern cleaning and disinfection protocols. However, these protocols are often not applied correctly. Research done by the Animal Health Care Flanders (DGZ), Belgium, shows that the use of microbiologic monitorin...
01 Sep 2007

Group housing for sows: 2. Different housing systems examined»

Well over 20 years now, the European livestock industry has been experimenting with loose sow housing. In short, it allows gestating sows to walk around freely instead of spending their days in a crate all day until farrowing. In this second episo...
01 Sep 2007

Piglets get VIP treatment in Italy»

Welfare issues concerning pigs are high on the agenda in northern Europe but generally not of great concern the further south of the continent. However, Italian producer Giuseppe Papetti has embraced group housing of dry sows, a loose farrowing sy...
15 Jul 2007

Group housing for sows»

Welfare issues concerning pig housing are becoming prominent in North America. The US and Canada are rapidly moving away from the use of gestation crates for sows – following similar developments in the European Union six years ago. In this series...
15 Jul 2007

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