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Prairie Swine Centre is an affiliate of the University of Saskatchewan
Prairie Swine Centre is grateful for the assistance of the George Morris Centre in developing the economics portion of Pork Insight.
Financial support for the Enterprise Model Project and Pork Insight has been provided by:
China – Pork Powerhouse of the World
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In recent years, live pig and pork production and pork consumption have been undergoing dramatic changes in China. As the biggest pig and pork producing country in the world, all these changes will not only influence the pig and pork industry in China, but will also affect international feed and pork trading countries. An overview of the current status and challenges faced by China will help the world understand the past, present and future trends in the Chinese pig industry. This information may also enable countries and companies to adjust pork production policies to suit the future international market economy in pork. China has an abundance of labour but is running out of land and resources. There is a lower pork price but high cost for major agriculture products. As a pork powerhouse, China will influence all aspects of the world pig industry such as labour, feed ingredient trading, food processing, pork trading, live pig trading, equipment and technology transfer. More strict measures are required to limit small-scale operations to improve meat safety and international competition. China can be expected to continue its role as a pork powerhouse of the world. The present pattern of increases in productivity, lean yield and carcass weight will continue. Rather than becoming a new export market for existing pork producing countries, China will probably become a major international competitor in the pork export market.
GO TO THE MASTERS WITH GROW-FINISH F:G AND ADG
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Factors that Affect GF Performance are health, genetics, nutrition (energy, dietary lysine level), feeder pig weight, barn design and gender. Economic summary assumes the following: total grow-finish cost = $55 / pig; facility cost = $0.10 / pig / day; feed cost = $120 / ton (unless given); deathloss cost = $75 / pig; and additional live weight = $45 / cwt.
Affectation 1 (g) – Conseils, commissions et législation
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Le Centre de compétence sur les conseils, les commissions et la législation appuie les organismes suivants :
• le Conseil manitobain de commercialisation des produits agricoles,
• la Commission manitobaine des machines agricoles,
• la Commission de protection des pratiques agricoles du Manitoba,
• l’Office de la propriété agricole du Manitoba,
• la Commission manitobaine du contrôle du prix du lait,
• le Bureau d’accréditation des organismes de producteurs agricoles,
• la Commission de médiation agricole du Manitoba,
• la Commission hippique du Manitoba.
Le Centre de compétence sur les conseils, les commissions et la législation examine et modifie la législation actuelle et présente de nouveaux projets de lois et de règlements. En outre, le Centre de compétence aide les producteurs et leur permet d’accroître leurs revenus :
en fournissant des services de médiation,
en fixant les prix des produits,
en fournissant un mécanisme de financement des activités de recherche et de promotion,
en réglementant la production et la commercialisation de certaines matières premières agricoles.
Le Centre de compétence s’efforce d’appuyer les producteurs en ce qui a trait à la gestion et à la mise en oeuvre de pratiques agricoles acceptables ainsi qu’à l’adoption de normes de sécurité à la ferme dans certains régimes de commercialisation.
On-farm demonstration of a technology for recuperation and elimination of methane from the manure storage tank
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The Canadian swine industry produces around 2 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalents of methane gas per year. This corresponds to 54% of the emissions coming from manure management in Canada. A reduction in methane emissions would mean a better management of organic carbon coming from manure. Regarding dinitrogen oxide (N2O), pig manure emits annually 130 000 tons of this gas in CO2 equivalents. Reducing these nitrogen losses to the atmosphere would improve the energy efficiency of soil fertilizers. The efficiency of a floating roof to reduce nitrogen losses and the ability of a biofilter to trap and oxidize methane emitted from a slurry storage tank had been examined. This study confirmed that a covered tank emits much less ammonia than a non-covered one. This improved nitrogen conservation reduces the cost of nitrogen fertilizers. Considering annual precipitations of 600mm, a floating roof increases the storage capacity of the tank by 15%. Generally, installing a cover on an existing tank is less expensive than building a new covered tank. According to literature, hermetic covers offer an excellent odour-reducing potential. In terms of methane oxidization and its consequent decreased emission, biofiltration showed very encouraging results: a decrease in methane emissions by 80% or more with every type of filter material tested. Thus, a floating cover can altogether decrease odours and manure dilution, and increase the storage capacity of the tank and the nitrogen concentration of the pig slurry.
Pilot project on composting dead animals with the Biovator(TM) composter
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A cylindrical composter designed for composting dead animals has been commercialized for a certain time in Canada under the brand name BiovatorTM.. The main objective was to confirm the efficiency of the BiovatorTM. in Québec’s province pig farms. After a technical adaptation period, the appropriate stability of the process has been reached. Numerous samplings and physicochemical, microbiological and pathogenicity analyses showed that the compost, although not mature, is adequate for spreading in the field, under Québec’s governmental dispositions, having interesting soil fertilizer and amendment characteristics. Despite episodes of less intense composting due to massive inputs of swine carcasses (associated with a temperature drop inside the first section of the composter), the process has always been stabilized afterwards. Moreover, no leachate run-off was observed. The compost produced was stored on a concrete slab, in an area protected against bad weather. An economical study was also done, detailing the costs related to this technology and offering an interesting decision-making tool. Québec’s ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food validated this new technology. This project showed the BiovatorTM to have many advantages: it requires little more labour than for the carcass collection service, performs efficiently in the diverse weather conditions of southern Québec, allows rapid removal of pig carcasses from the buildings and rapidly decomposes those carcasses (within two weeks). It also eliminates the cost of the dead stock collection service and the risk of contamination by the incoming collection trucks.
SIDE-DELIVERY SPREADING OF MANURE
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Nitrogen budgets and losses in livestock systems
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