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Dead Pig Disposal: An Unpleasant but Essential Topic
Even on well managed hog farms, some animals die before being marketed. For example, a 1,200-sow farm that produces 2.2 litters per sow per year and sells weanling pigs can have need for disposal of 36 sow carc...
Author: Allen Harper, Extension Animal Scientist ­ Swine, VA Tech Tidewater AREC - Livestock Update, V...
Publication date: 04/10/2008    Rating:    Views: 646

Water Quality Considerations for Swine
Water is an essential nutrient which is often overlooked and given little attention. Plentiful, good quality water is essential for optimum swine production. Pigs obtain water from three sources: water containe...
Author: Ian R. Seddon, Ph.D. - Swine Specialist, Animal Industry Branch (Government of Manitoba, Manit...
Publication date: 03/26/2008    Rating:    Views: 747

Swine Environmental Issues: Snowballing Legislation and Manure Management – Where Are We Headed?
During the past two decades pork production in the US has grown in numbers only slightly. However, there has been a shift in both where these animals are grown and how they are grown. There is still a high conc...
Author: JAMES C. BARKER (Courtesy of Alltech Inc.)
Publication date: 11/27/2007    Rating:    Views: 539

Control of foodborne pathogens in pigs
A zoonosis is an infectious disease naturally transmissible between vertebrates and man. At first sight the list of potential zoonoses is quite imposing; however when the exotic and rare zoonoses are removed fr...
Author: NOEL T. KAVANAGH (Courtesy of Alltech Inc.)
Publication date: 11/01/2007    Rating:    Views: 516

The French and Dutch Experiences in Controlling Odour on Farms
The influence of intensive agriculture on both the environment at large and within livestock buildings is receiving the highest priority in research programmes. In many cases emissions are a limiting factor for...
Author: D.J.A. COLE, H.G. SCHUERINK and A. MOREL (Courtesy of Alltech Inc.)
Publication date: 10/19/2007    Rating:    Views: 469

Nutritional approaches to reducing the environmental impact of outdoor pigs
Our thanks to the author and Conference Organisers, a Committee consisting of both University and Industry colleagues. The full paper will appear in the Conference Proceedings ('Recent Advances in Animal Nut...
Author: S A Edwards
Publication date: 10/03/2007    Rating:    Views: 575

Producing pigs to comply with ever-increasing environmental restraints
Europe has had to live with increasingly stringent constraints on piggery system outputs for several years. The introduction of the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) directive in the UK in Janu...
Author: DAVE HENMAN - QAF Meat Industries, Corowa, New South Wales, Australia (Courtesy of Alltech Inc...
Publication date: 08/29/2007    Rating:    Views: 477

Using Yucca Schidigera in Pig Diets: Effects on Nitrogen Metabolism
Extracts and preparations of the desert plant Yucca schidigera Roezl ex Ortgies (Mohave yucca), family Lillaceae, have a variety of beneficial effects when included in the diets of humans and domestic animals. ...
Author: CEPTA DUFFY and PETER BROOKS (Courtesy of Alltech Inc.)
Publication date: 08/16/2007    Rating:    Views: 706

The Spectre of Pollution from Animal Excreta with Special Reference to Pigs
There is much talk across the world, in locations as wide apart and diverse as the UK and New Zealand for example, about food safety and animal welfare.While these are important areas of concern to the pig prod...
Author: JOHN GADD (Specialist Pig Consultant, Shaftesbury, Dorset, UK) and GRANT RICHARDS (Nutrition C...
Publication date: 07/27/2007    Rating:    Views: 388

Well-known and new approaches to Biomin® pHD
The current situation on the world feed market shows increasing feed prices. Not only milk by-products are steady increasing in price. Corn prices are rising too. Raw material prices will affect more and more...
Author: Barbara Rüel - Biomin
Publication date: 05/31/2007    Rating:    Views: 1252