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Providing adequate enrichment materials such as chains or rubber hoses, and rooting materials such as straw, mushroom compost or maize silage in pens lowers tail biting levels. Photo: Mark Pasveer

08-09-2022 | Article

Is tail biting in pigs related to tail posture?

According to the APPC report, the Paraguayan pig sector had a value of US$ 1.25 per kg of live weight. Photo: Daniel Azevedo

08-09-2022 | News

Paraguay has the cheapest pork meat in South America

Exterior of Yangxiang, a large Chinese pig producer. Recent market cycles have all pushed the pork industry closer towards consolidation, industrialisation and modernisation. Photo: Henk Riswick

07-09-2022 | News

Research: ‘China’s pork market has started a new cycle’

Photo: Canva

06-09-2022 | News

ASF Vietnam: Vaccination trials suspended due to pig deaths

Podcast: Antibiotic-free pork production

06-09-2022 | News

Podcast: Antibiotic-free pork production

Photo: Canva

05-09-2022 | Analysis

Increased US pork sales to Colombia

The US and Canada continue to prepare for the day when this disease may arrive in mainland North America. Photo: Shutterstock

05-09-2022 | Article

North America and Canada keep preparing for ASF

Podcast: ASAS 2022 Special – Genetics and technology

03-09-2022 | News

Podcast: ASAS 2022 Special – Genetics and technology

Podcast: Early respiratory disease detection in pigs

02-09-2022 | News

Podcast: Early respiratory disease detection in pigs

One of the was to improve swine manure handling is applying appropriate storage and treatment systems. Photo: Fotostudio Atelier 68

02-09-2022 | Article

Best practices for swine manure handling

A sow in a farrowing crate in a US breeding farm. Photo: Vincent ter Beek

01-09-2022 | News

2 new legal briefs in Proposition 12 developments

FAO alerted Latin American and Caribbean countries In August 2021 to the need to take preventive measures due to the ASF outbreak amongst domestic pigs in the Dominican Republic and later in Haiti. Photo: FAO

31-08-2022 | News

FAO to support 30,000 small producers in Caribbean against ASF

Podcast: ASAS 2022 special – Canadian perspective on zinc

30-08-2022 | News

Podcast: ASAS 2022 special – Canadian perspective on zinc

Since the beginning of 2022, more than 80 ASF outbreaks have been registered in Russia, with less than half at backyard farms, while the rest is among wild boar. - Photo: Jan Vullings

29-08-2022 | News

ASF Russia: First industrial pig farm in Russia hit in 2022