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From Nanoparticles to Natural Gas: Keeping Barns Efficient and Healthy Places to Work
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This powerpoint presentation was presented at the 2011 Spring Producers Meetings held in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The meetings were sponsored by Prairie Swine Centre, Alberta Pork, Manitoba Pork, Saskatchewan Pork, Elanco and Masterfeeds.
Managing Feed Costs
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This powerpoint presentation on managing feed costs was presented at the 2011 Spring Producers Meetings held in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The meetings were sponsored by Prairie Swine Centre, Alberta Pork, Manitoba Pork, Saskatchewan Pork, Elanco and Masterfeeds.
Prairie Swine Centre 2011
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The Mandate of the Prairie Swine Centre is to produce and distribute knowledge derived through original research, scientific review and economic analysis. To access information on the Prairie Swine Centre in 2011 in an easy to read powerpoint presentation click on the link!
New Website – Easier, faster access to information
Posted in: Press Releases by admin on February 7, 2011 | No Comments
The Centre’s Mandate ‘To produce and distribute knowledge derived through original research, scientific review and economic analysis’ has been substantially reinforced with the redesign of the Centre’s website. With over 5800 production research articles, and virtually every publication published by the Centre in the past 15 years, the website has become a truly one-stop shop for pork production information.
Communication with every aspect of the pork industry is an integral part of why Prairie Swine Centre exists, notes Lee Whittington, President of Prairie Swine Centre. “Although you cannot replace face-to-face meetings and telephone conversations as vehicles for helping individuals to adopt new technology, the internet is the clear winner when you are seeking speed and efficiency of communicating technical subjects.” The website can be found at www.prairieswine.com.
The new website is easier to navigate; for example finding our publications or contacting our researchers can be done in a single click. Lowering cost of production will never go out of style and for that reason the many articles and publications on this subject are grouped together on the home page under the large Survival Strategies STOP sign icon. The real power of the website lies in its new search engine capability. To quickly find relevant articles on a wide variety of technical papers, we have summarized the scientific papers, and made them searchable with PorkInsight a modern search engine. The goal is to assist you in assessing whether or not the new science or management findings can help you on your farm – quickly.
Prairie Swine Centre Inc., located near Saskatoon, is a non-profit research corporation affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan, and is recognized globally for its contributions to practical, applied science in pork production in the disciplines of nutrition, engineering and applied animal behaviour.
Annual Report 2009 Released!
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Prairie Swine Centre’s Annual Report for 2009 is now online!
- Providing pigs with low protein diet, manipulation of manure pH, and employing a high level of
cleanliness inside barn facilities could potentially reduce ammonia concentrations. - Savings of 1,956 ($200) to 12,468 kWh ($1,250) per year are possible by switching to compact flourescent bulbs.
- No major differences in the overall energy use (natural gas and electrical energy) was observed
between rooms with infrared radiant heater and forced-air convection heater systems. - When handling near-market weight hogs, group sizes of 4 or 8 pigs is preferred for minimizing
stress based on handling and behavioural measures. - Sows housed in the ‘T’ pens used the free space area significantly more than the sows housed in the ‘I’ pens”.
- When transporting hogs to market, pigs in the bottom front compartment had the highest heart
rate measures at unloading, and also produced the highest incidence of DFD pork. - A diet containing 5% flaxseed, fed as a 50:50 co-extruded pea/flaxseed blend increased the
omega-3 content of pork fat. - The utilization of net energy for body weight gain was unaffected by feeding level or by energy
concentration of the diet. - Feeding co-extruded flaxseed to increase the alpha linoleic acid content in loin muscle did not result in levels sufficient to meet label requirements in Canada.
- The non-starch polysaccharide (NSP)-hydrolyzing enzyme increased nutrient digestibility, both
in-vitro and in-vivo. - Fermentable fibre modulates the gut environment, extends health-promoting properties and
reduces ammonia excretion. - Peas and pea-fibres reduced nitrogen excretion and could possibly contribute to improving the gut health of pigs