Smithfield recommends group housing for pregnant sows Smithfield Foods, and its hog production subsidiary, Murphy-Brown, is recommending all of its contract sow...
Kiotechagil uses new office to drive S American growth Kiotechagil, the Anpario brand which supplies natural feed additives with a focus on organic acids and...
Company: Cherkizovo Group - Financial results Cherkizovo Group, Russia’s leading integrated and diversified meat producer, announced financial results for the...
RESEARCH: Boar taint vaccination affecting pig prices Vaccinating against boar taint was shown to have a negative impact on pig prices paid by meatpackers in Germany.
Liquid prestarters in the spotlight at Provimi symposium The second day of the Provimi animal nutrition seminar in Barcelona, Spain, mainly focused on prestarter feed...
UK finishing performance closes gap on competition Latest figures show the performance of the finishing herd in Britain is still improving and the gap is closing...
Cargill unveils new line of feed additives Cargill Animal Nutrition, through its Provimi business, introduces Promote, a new global brand and line of feed...
Energy and environment at SPACE R&D pavilion SPACE 2013, held in September 2013 in Rennes, France, featured a special Research & Development platform. This...
Increasing sustainability in pig production systems Modern pig production at all levels, from the farm to the sub-cellular, came under scrutiny at the recent DSM...
Canada: Sow housing conversion project underway The National Sow Housing Conversion Project is underway. Two pilot barns that were identified from a number of...
Study: Effect of MOS on pig growth and feed efficiency ABSTRACT: The study carried out by The Department of Animal Sciences, Ohio State University, Columbus, was...
JSR benefits from improved sire lines, cuts costs The pig production arm of the JSR Farming Group, a 4,000 sow operation producing 2000 pigs per week, has...
Rearing piglets requires high feed mix quality Rearing piglets is very demanding and requires high feed mix quality. The younger the piglets, the greater the...
Feed conversion efficiency lags behind in Britain Feeding herd performance is far more important to a pig unit, financially, than litter performance.
Smithfield Foods releases group housing system video In 2007, Smithfield Foods announced an industry-leading goal of phasing out individual gestation stalls in favor...
Amino acids requirements for pigs The new Rhodimet Nutrition Guide edited by Adisseo regroups the amino acids requirements for pigs.
What If? In vitro meat What if we did not have live animals but still had delicious meat to eat? Wouldn’t that solve animal welfare...
Curtains - quartiling the building Motorised curtains are an increasingly popular way of naturally-ventilating piggeries in hot climates - those...
Swine dysentery - Summer, the season for eradication Swine dysentery is one of the most damaging diseases in pig production and really should be eradicated....
Indonesian feed giant's new pig operation in Vietnam Indonesian feed giant Japfa Comfeed spread its wings into South East Asia. In 2012 they partnered with...
Superdosing: A chance to unlock gains in swine Gone are the days when phytase was only used to unlock phosphorus. Superdosing phytase – at a higher dosage than...
More sustainability leads to higher pig profits Profitability in swine production depends on optimising lifetime output per sow breeding place. But often...
Maximising capacity - Part 2. Optimising finishing capacity Everything in pig production is interconnected. In the previous issue, the question how to optimise weaning...
Maximising capacity With the programme ‘Max’ing Capacity’, breeding company Hypor foresees pig production evolving into an even...
Vitamin E: Vital for health and performance Last month, Pig Progress paid attention to the major vitamins available – what they do and what their functions...
Precise feed management at 45th Swine Research Days The latest edition of the French Pig Research Days, held in Paris, 5-6 February 2013 by the French Pig Research...
A Swine Carbon Footprint model as a decision aid tool A satiated market has a common feature. No longer is it only relevant how to produce enough pork to feed...
Vitamins – vital nutrients for health and production Without vitamins pigs cannot grow as the industry wants them to do. In this series of three articles, general...
Novel strategy for better nutrient use in piglets Weaning is a most critical period in the life of a piglet. The change from the sow’s milk to solid feeds often...
Alternative protein sources head for across the ocean With feed prices rising, everywhere around the world livestock producers are looking for alternative feed...
What the textbooks don't tell you about...Farm-specific... “What's all this about?” you ask. “Surely the concept is well- known by now?” You know, and I know, that...
All-round control with virtual pig production New concepts in management software feature programmes created to collect and calculate data from all computers...
Pigs in Paris – 42nd JRP nutrition research review Although it sounds surreal, French capital Paris was the stage for the Journées de la Recherche Porcine (JRP –...
Adjusting lysine for lean meat Careful adjustment of the lysine amino acid through the feeding period doesn't help weight gain or feed...
Focus on boar taint: Part 3. Moving forward in pig... Pig producers in various countries all over the world see that the practice of castrating male piglets nowadays...