Pig Industry Technical Articles
Article published the April 27, 2020:
Background and objectives
Pharmacological levels of zinc oxide (ZnO) are widely used in the weaning pig diets to promote growth and prevent post-weaning diarrhea. This practice is not environmentally sustaina...
Article published the April 22, 2020:
Introduction
In the early twentieth century, Ivanow reported the use of the artificial insemination technique (AI) in pig(1,2). However, the commercial application of AI began at the 1980s(3). Its success can ...
Article published the April 17, 2020:
In 1817, selenium (Se) was isolated for the first time by Berzelius. At that time little was known about its biological function, until its nutritional requirement was revealed about 140 years later by Schwar...
Article published the April 17, 2020:
Players in the swine industry are currently looking for new ecological, functional and cost-effective alternatives to meet the growing demand for products of high sanitary and nutritional quality. In the cont...
Article published the April 7, 2020:
Background
Maize oil is an abundant source of vegetable oil used in human foods and animal feeds. Maize oil provides 8579 kcal/ kg of ME [1], which is comparable to soybean oil (8574 kcal/kg), and greater than...
Article published the April 6, 2020:
We present an efficacy study conducted at the Superior Technical School of Agricultural, Food and Biosystem Engineering, at its Experimental Farm in Catalonia, Spain, where the positive effects of a biosurfacta...
Article published the April 1, 2020:
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Article published the March 27, 2020:
As a result of COVID-19, veterinarians need to look at biosecurity in new ways. As practitioners we have to focus on protecting pigs and maintaining the economic viability of the farm. We are trained to deal wi...