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Jay Johnson (USDA) shared his opinion regarding this resource and its value, in this Swine It interview with host Laura Greiner....
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Panels will bring themes related to biosecurity, productivity and innovation, topics that are the foundation of the swine production in the world
With the high production costs, coming mainly from the inputs used in the manufacture of feed, efficiency in the production system is essential to generate positive balances in farms. In this scenario, the best way to achieve success is the use of innovations, to reduce costs and improve production...
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Introduction: Clostridium perfringens type A enteritis is a frequent disease of the newborn piglets with a major economic impact in the Czech Republic and important swine producing countries as well. Different antimicrobials may be used for treatment of piglets affected by clostridial enteritis. There are only a few reports on antimicrobial susceptibility of C. perfringens from pigs. Overall, the most common resistance in C. perfringens is to...
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Solutions to optimize production costs and improve performance will be presented on the first day of the event
Session coordinator, Bruno Silva, and president of IPVS2022, Fernanda...
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Adisseo is committed to have a long-term implication in research and is fully involved to find sustainable and meaningful innovations in animal nutrition field.
Thus, Adisseo decided to support research by launching a...
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1. Introduction With increasing public awareness regarding pig welfare, gestating sow housing systems are currently changing around the world to group-housing. While the legislation on sows’ group-housing was adopted in 2001 in Europe, the new Canadian regulation was enacted in 2014. The Canadian Code of Practice for the care and handling of pigs requires that all newly built facilities or those undergoing renovation must house sows in groups during gestation, or provide...
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Introduction Domestic animals are considered to be sentient and endowed with cognitive and emotional abilities. The fact that domestic animals can experience emotional states has resulted in developing methods for welfare assessment and monitoring. However, animal welfare legislation often focusses on housing and management conditions and less on how people behave and interact with them. Yet humans can influence reactions of animals towards them and affect their behaviour...
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Introduction Due to considerable changes in the pig industry worldwide in favour to groups-housing systems, understanding social behaviour of pigs and its impact on welfare has become increasingly important. The wild counterparts of pigs are highly gregarious and form complex hierarchical structures of multigenerational and matrilineal social units centered around several philopatric females associated with their cohorts of offspring [1,2]. Despite occasional breakdown in...
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Introduction The “Five Freedoms” (FAWC, 1993) are used widely as a framework for the assessment of animal welfare and the basis of much legislation for animal protection. Whilst not all Freedoms receive universal agreement, “Freedom from pain, injury and disease” is accepted as important by all stakeholders. Pain can be defined as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage” (IASP, 1979)....
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Michael Binder, Vice President Sustainability Development at Evonik Animal Nutrition, points out Evonik’s commitment to sustainability performance with a focus on a positive impact for society, supporting sustainable livestock production in Brazil and around the world...
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One of the most pressing problems that has attracted considerable publicity in the last few years is the prospect of widespread multidrug resistance leading to a breakdown in human healthcare systems throughout the world. The O’Neil report (O’Neil et al 2016), estimates “that by 2050, 10 million lives a year and a cumulative 100 trillion USD of economic output are at risk due to the rise of drug- resistant infections”. The O’Neil report recommends a...
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Introduction While meat production generates food and a livelihood for billions of people around the planet, it is also associated with environmental and health consequences (OECD 2016). Among production animals, chickens and pigs are species of enormous economic importance for humans, with chickens being the most consumed meet source in the world (13.8 kg/capita in 2016) followed by pigs (12.3 kg/per capita in 2016) (OECD 2016). Given the cultural...
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Animal emotions – and what about the pig? With some notable exceptions Darwin’s 1872 book on expressions of emotions in man and humans, ‘feelings’ or emotions have historically been viewed as non-scientific and not a subject fitting for scientific enquiry. However, during the last decades we have seen a resurrection of scientific interest in the field of mechanisms of emotion, not at least because of the increasing prevalence of...
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Introduction Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) is the most relevant infectious disease in the swine industry. PRRS virus (PRRSv) live inoculation has been used to stabilize and even eliminate PRRS in positively confirmed farms. Batch farrowing is a production system used to maximize productivity and could be used to interrupt disease transmission in susceptible populations. This report captures the stabilization of a one site farm with a continuous production...
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Introduction Pork’s historic position as the world’s most popular meat is no more. 2019 was characterized by the explosion of African Swine Fever in China and subsequent slaughter of approximately half of that country’s pigs, representing about 25% of the world's production. Allowing for this catastrophe the exorable rise in the global consumption of chicken ensured it always going to result in its accession to No.1 spot worlds, but...
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Dr. Flaviana Gottardo and Dr. Annalisa Scollo (University of Padova, Italy) gave practical recommendations for producers on this issue during this Swine It interview with host Márcio Gonçalves....
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Dr. John Patience (Iowa State University) talks about feeding programs, management and health issues in a Swine It interview with host Márcio Gonçalves....
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Chad Hastad (New Fashion Pork) discussed ongoing research in this area, during a Swine It interview with host Márcio Gonçalves....
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Dr. Hyatt Frobose (Jyga Technologies) comments on renovations, regulations and farrowing crates, in this Swine It interview with host Laura Greiner....
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Dr. Ana Granados Chapatte (European Forum of Farm Animal Breeders) talked about the issues that may arise in transport, in this Swine It interview with host Márcio Gonçalves....
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