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And the winner is... from South Korea!

Will you go to the IPVS in Jeju, Korea? Then look for these two guys, scan their QR code and participate in the draw of a copy of "Diseases of Swine".

In these articles, coordinated by PigChamp, we analyze the data collected at the farm in order to suggest changes for increasing the production efficiency.

Are you a pig333 user? Congratulations, you're in luck! With the new page layout we have improved the subscription and account management system.

In this section, farmers and veterinarians give us practical tips on pig production, simple ideas based on their daily experience, that they have implemented on their farms and aim to facilitate work or improve the performance of farms.

In this new section we try to give an overview of how each link in the chaincan contribute to reducing Salmonella in pigs.

pig333.com presents a new section: water medication calculator. This tool calculates the quantity of medicine to incorporate in water when using a flow dispenser.

333 will be at SPACE (September 13-16 ) in Hall 8 Stand C38.

We raffled off an iPad among all of those who came up to our stand at the 6th International Symposium on Emerging and Re-emerging Pig Diseases, and the winner is Mr. Luca Ferrari, a veterninarian at the University of Parma, Italy.

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Visit the markets and prices section to find out the latest prices and the historical evolution of the most important swine markets

In order to really take advantage of all the price information, we have developed some interactive graphics that allow you to visualize prices in various currencies. We use real time currency exchange rates for each market. It is also possible to convert between different units (kg, pounds, cwt or 100 kg). At the same time you can see several correlative years represented in order to see trends or “overlaps”, in order to see the difference between years.

We have just added a new section, Pig welfare, to pig333, on the European legislation about the minimum standards for the protection of pigs (2001/88/EC of 23/Oct/2001 and 2001/93/EC of 9/Nov/2001). This section has an interactive format of questions and answers starting from a photograph, and has been prepared by Paolo Candotti.

We have added some more pig prices from America: Canada (Quebec and Ontario) and USA (Iowa-Minnesotta) and, in order to present the information in a clearer format we have grouped the countries by continent

Yesterday, José Barceló Bonada passed away at the age of 49 due to a heart attack. He was one of the creators of the websites 3tres3.com and pig333.com.

We have added the pig prices for: Hungary, Chile, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and South Korea.

Here you will find all the articles published in pig333.com on swine flu