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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:
Assessment of the management practices facilitating the establishment and spread of exotic diseases of pigs in the Sydney region
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Drinking Patterns of Nursery Pigs – Implications For Water Vaccination
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Understanding swine drinking patterns is very important when administering vaccines via the drinking water. Enterisol® Ileitis is a Lawsonia intracellularis vaccine delivered via drinking water to protect against ileitis. The objectives of this study was to determine how long it took for 100% of nursery pigs to visit the drinker when observations began at 7, 8, 9 or 10 am over three consecutive days • Behavioral data was collected from 700 – 1800 nursery pigs by visually recording with a camera placed above the drinkers and ID’s on the pigs backs. 66 hours of data was collected with a stopwatch measuring the duration of drinking bouts and recorded every time a pigs’ head was over / in the bowl. The results conclude that within 6 hours on all three days 100% of the pigs had drank from the bowl and it is critical for producers to administer Enterisol® Ileitis for a minimum of 4 hours with a preference for 6 hours. In a follow up study the objectives were to validate the pilot study findings with a larger study and to evaluate the distribution and duration of drinking bouts. It was concluded that the results are consistent with the previous pilot study; insufficient vaccination time could result in incomplete population immunization and it is recommended to administer the drinking water vaccines for a minimum of 4 hours with a preference for 6 hours.
Genetic approaches to the improvement of fertility traits in the pig
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Economic Effects of Animal Diseases Linked to Trade Dependency
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Global levels of meat trade have not declined despite the last decade’s high-profile bans on meat trade flows.
The economic effects of disease-related trade bans on an individual country depend on the size of its livestock trade relative to domestic consumption. The most severe impacts have been felt in a few export-dependent markets and in those importdependent markets where substitutes for banned trade
were not found.
The economic significance of animal disease outbreaks is also influenced by consumer response: Fears that the disease can spread to humans can lead to sharp drops in consumption.
ALUM SETTLING AND FILTRATION TREATMENT OF LIQUID SWINE MANURE
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Agrienvironmental indicators: methodologies, data needs and availability
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Main aim was to asses the state of art for research on agrienvironmental
indicators. The present report tries to clarify where the data demand
arises from, which are the priorities to be faced and which is the availability
of basic data or methodologies referring to specific issues.
Main agrienvironmental issues addressed by existing policy, either generated
in the integration process of the existing sectoral policy or in the development
of specific environmental issue policy, are listed. The existing
policy on sustainable development is also analysed referring to issues related
to the agriculture sector.
Monitoring of agrienvironment related phenomena is thus required,
through a harmonised system of indicators. Conceptual frameworks existing
at international level on environmental indicators and on sustainability, and
the related indicator lists, are presented, in some cases showing overlapping
and differences. Such lists represent a reference point to refer to and the
data demand arising at international level, so that assessing basic data
availability at national level in order to comply with such lists is becoming
necessary. Integration of such lists can also be required whenever it is
recognised that a specific issue, not considered at international level, needs
to be faced at national level.
Monitoring agrienvironmental issues involves an enormous variety of skills including statistical work and scientific research. Statistical approach
has to proceed knowing the steps ahead made on the comprehension of
a specific phenomenon. On the other hand, data producer and data user,
having institutional tasks, should work in closer cooperation to better evaluate
existing database, and where necessary to immediately clarify which
is the evolution of the data demand.
A review of available indicators, of basic data and, in some cases,
of the related calculation methodology, in relation to some specific issues,
is presented (paragraph 5). Focuses on specific issues are provided. The
Environmental methodologies and statistics Unit in Istat provided an overview of the agricultural practices that can affect pressures on the environment,
that might be worth to monitor, evaluating statistical activity done
in the last years in Istat to integrate existing surveys on such issues (paragraph
5.1). The same Unit performed also a deepening(a) on availability of
data and information collected through farm structure survey on use of
water in agriculture for irrigation purpose (paragraph 5.2). The mentioned
contributions show the enormous work done since 1998 integrating existing
surveys, mainly surveys on farm structure, and planning of new one
(use of plant protection products) in order to comply with the increasing
data demand arising on agrienvironmental issues. Furthermore, the
Statistics on agriculture inputs Unit in Istat presented its activity related to
statistics on sale (paragraph 5.3.1) and use (paragraph 5.3.2) of plant protection
products. Highlights on the activity carried out by Istat are provided
with reference to the waste generation and management issue (paragraph
5.4). Methodology applied by Istat to calculate Gross nitrogen balance
indicator is also depicted and results are presented at national level.
The other Institution involved in this project was the Agency for the protection
of the environment and for technical services (Apat)1 on ongoing
production of data and on future improvements on some gas emissions
from the agriculture sector (paragraph 5.6), such as ammonia (paragraph
5.6.1), carbon dioxide (paragraph 5.6.2), methane and nitrous oxide (paragraph
5.6.3). Lastly a full list of agrienvironmental indicators organised by
theme and derived from variables surveyed through agriculture census of
year 2000 is presented (paragraph 5.7).
Greenhouse gas and ammonia emission abatement by slurry treatment
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Winter Cover Crop and Management Effects on Summer and Annual Nutrient Yields
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