Better Pork April 2017
Articles in the April 2017 Better Pork Include: Beyond the Barn: Creating Swine Surrogates for Leading Boars, New Gadget for Cooking Bacon, Lessons Learned from H1N1 Outbreak, Ensuring Biosecurity at Boar Studs Male pigs have been developed that can produce sperm genetically identical to a selected...
Better Pork February 2017
Articles in the February 2017 Better Pork Include: Beyond the Barn: Importing Viruses via Feed, Shopping for Bacon in Virtual Reality, Canadian Pork Industry Hoping TPP Won't be DOA (Dead on Arrival), Label Claims for the 98% Viral pathogens can travel through imported feed from...
Better Pork December 2016
Articles in the December 2016 Better Pork Include: Beyond the Barn: Banff Pork Seminar Moves Mountains to Drive Attendance, Understanding PEDV Detection Methods, Holiday Gifts to Make You Squeal With Joy, The Computerized Hog Barn, Optimizing Sow Output with Longer Productive Lives The theme for...
Better Pork October 2016
Articles in the October 2016 Better Pork Include: Beyond the Barn: Brewing a New Use for Pork, Canadian-Produced PED Vaccine in the Works, Social (Ag)Media: How to Cook Your Pork and Connect with Consumers, Getting With the Plan, Selling Swine Welfare Flying Fish Brewery in...
Better Pork August 2016
Articles in the August 2016 Better Pork Include: Beyond the Barn: Social (Ag)Media, Bacon Critic Wanted, New Tech to Ensure Manure Pit Safety, The Loose Housing Revolution Many producers are on social media. Accounts about agriculture are listed. A breakfast website, Extra Crispy, is looking...
Better Pork June 2016
Articles in the June 2016 Better Pork Include: Beyond the Barn: Stratford Hope Bacon and Ale will Lure Shakespeare Buffs, PRRS Resistant Hog a 'Potential Game Changer", Turning Manure Mountains into Gold, Spike in Barn Fires Causes Rising Public Concern Unique tastings of beer and...
Long-Term Feeding of Graded Levels of Deoxynivalenol in Finisher Pigs
Grains that are contaminated with mycotoxins are often downgraded for use in livestock feed. The incidence of contaminated grain is increasing, so avoiding contamination continues to become more difficult. Strategies to reduce or eliminate mycotoxins have been proposed with many that deactivate the mycotoxin through...
High-Fibre Diets & Immune Stimulation Increase Threonine Requirements
Reduced growth and less efficient use of nutrients is found in sub-clinical disease. Health and nutrient requirements need to be better understood now that in-feed antibiotics have been eliminated. The efficiency of utilization of dietary threonine for growth in pigs decreases when feedstuffs have high-fibre....
Finding Effective Enrichments for Group Housed Sows
Group housing is a socially enriched environment, but aggression is still a risk due to competition for resources like territory and food. Providing enrichment can reduce aggression and stereotypic behaviours. The Canadian Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Pigs requires that barns...
Ventilation System Requirements for Conversion to Group Sow Housing
The animal environment and energy costs all are impacted by ventilation. When converting to a group-housed sow barn, retaining the existing ventilation system leads to over-ventilation in winter as they are designed for a higher animal density. This can chill the animals with negative impacts...