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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:
Odour Control is Possible
Posted in: Environment by admin on January 1, 1996 | No Comments
Good management practices take an important place in odour control. Additives are not cost effective although they produce some improvement in the manure viscosity helping the handling. Zeolite added to the feed is probaly the most cost effective additive as nitrogen losses are reduced and feed conversion is improved.
Water Use and Drinker Management
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La filtration de I’air
Posted in: Air Filtration, Pork Insight Articles by admin on November 28, 1995 | No Comments
Le CNEVA de Ploufragan a demontre l’efficacite de la protection sanitaire en utilisant de l’air filtre depuis quinze ans dans son elevage. Pourtant cette technique n’a pas fait ecole, ou plutot n’avait pas fait ecolejusqu’a cejour ; car depuisaout 1995 une seconde installation est en place au centre d’insemination de Landivisiau. Cette realisation s’inscrit dans un projet global breton.
De I’air filtre pour Ie centre d’insemination de Landivisiau
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19 aoflt 1995 : un systeme de filtration d’air est mis en service au centre d’insemination de Landivisiau. Cette technique a pour but de proteger le cheptel contre toute contamination virale par les entrees d’air, sachant que la densite porcine dans les environs du site est particulierement forte. Atout pore a demande aJean-Marie Boissiere, le responsable du site, d’exposer les raisons qui l’ont amene achoisir un tel systeme et de donner ses premieres impressions apres trois mois de fonctionnement.
Stereotypies in the stabled horse: Causes, treatments and prevention.
Posted in: Welfare by admin on January 1, 1995 | No Comments
Electrical properties of organic and respirable swine dusts.
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The electrical resistivity and collection efficiency of pig dust were determined to investigate the use of electrostatic precipitation in removing airborne dust from pig housing. Pig dust was compared with 4 other organic dusts in resistivity and collection experiments: flour, icing sugar, maize starch and milk powder. The electrical resistivity for each of the dusts was within the “medium” resistivity range. An electrostatic precipitator collected the flour, icing sugar, maize starch, milk powder and pig dust with mass collection efficiencies of 92.5, 23.9, 71.0, 45.7 and 67.3%, respectively. For each of the 5 dusts, particles <1 um were collected less efficiently than particles >1 um.
EWEES: A European Waste Engineering Expert System
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EWEES is being produced in collaboration with many research teams in Europe (U.K., Greece, the Netherlands, Ireland, Italy).EWEES is meant to help avoid farm pollution by better decision making. The expert system is designed to act as a human expert would do, by logical reasoning process to approach the problem solving in a broad way. Steps are followed in the research of solutions by the system. First, the user gives the main constraints and requirement to characterize the problem; secondly a system of rules are applied in order to find the technical approaches that are more likely to solve the problem. Several alternatives can be presented and explained to the user and recommendations are made considering the input information given. The 3rd step is when needed detailed engineering solutions and finally the user can calculate and compare the costs of the proposed solutions. Technical, managerial, economic and legislative information are integrated to the expert system.
This system is intended to help the human experts in the field in their analysis of different situations. Human touches are always needed for unusual problems and also in analyzing the options presented in keeping the broad perspective of each specific situation. The precision of the elements and information put in this expert system have a direct impact on the exactitude of the results.