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Pig feed: Potential effects of antimicrobial carryover

Medicated feed premixes are often included in compound feeds. Hence, some antibiotic carryover can occur when a feed miller switches from producing one feed type to the other. What levels would be acceptable and is it known what effects this may have?
Following the recent Dutch comments by their Ministry of Economics, Agriculture and Innovation to reduce the use of antibiotics in agriculture by 50% by 2013, one of the measures included... read more »

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What the textbooks don't tell you about...Farm-specific diets (part one)

“What’s all this about?” you ask. “Surely the concept is well- known by now?” You know, and I know, that technical advances in the area of growing pig nutrition and genetic improvement have leapt ahead in the past few years. Talking to many commercial pig nutritionists and applied geneticists across the world has revealed some very frustrated people. At times this has slipped across into downright annoyance with you, the producer. read more >

More ways to reduce the pig feed bill

Feed prices remain volatile with sharp increases followed by temporary decreases, depending mostly on global crop forecasts, level of speculation interest in the agricultural market, biofuel production, and worldwide financial uncertainty. Most experts agree that feed prices will remain high for the foreseeable future, and as such, we need to ensure all possible measures are taken toreducethe impact of nutrition on overall cost of production. read more >

Resurgence of milk replacers

Milk replacers can be used in various ways – one option is to use them as a temporal fix when a sow does not produce sufficient amounts of milk; another is to apply them in a structural approach as sows produce increasingly larger litters anyway. This overview aims to give a comprehensive summary of various applications of milk replacers. read more >

Permeabilisers help target a wider range of bacteria

With antibiotic growth promoters banned in the EU, the demand grows for natural ways to create a bacterial balance in pig and poultry gut systems. As knowledge grows, so does the number of approaches – and their subsequent synergy. The latest introduction to the market combines organic acids, a phytochemical with a cell wall permeabiliser – to boost the antimicrobial effect of the other components. read more >

The search for alternatives to zinc oxide

In the beginning, the use of zinc oxide in pig production was greeted with some skepticism. Ever since, the method has always remained the subject of pro and con discussions, resulting nowadays in some countries having embraced, banned or re-embraced ZnO. This overview aims to give more insight into its history – and alternatives. read more >
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