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DanBred delivers record-breaking genetic improvement of €2,17 per slaughter pig per year

DanBred have documented a genetic improvement that shows an enhancement of €2,17 on average per slaughter pig per year during 2017. The largest genetic gain ever realised.

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Rabobank: Global pork trade facing unprecedented change

Escalating trade tensions between the US and China, and within North America, are expected to greatly impact global pork trade in 2H 2018, according to Rabobank’s latest Pork Quarterly report.

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Polish delegation briefed the Council on the difficult situation in the pig meat market

The Commission considered it premature to introduce market management measures for the pig meat sector.

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DanBred documents genetic gain of 5.97 EUR per finisher

Over the last three years, DanBred has generated and documented a genetic gain of € 5.97 per finisher.

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Your slaughterhouse is determining your future

Being a high performing farm is not a sufficient condition to future success.

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Losses have arrived but the fundamentals will bring the panic stricken back to reality

The impact of Chinese tariffs on US pork, the pork exports picture, feed costs forecast and more...

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2018 outlook for feed costs: soybean

Huge supplies, increasing production and an efficient, coordinated global chain fuels low cost soybean meal, cheap feed and high profits.

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An economic analysis of sow retention in a United States breed-to-wean system

Retaining sows in the herd longer has economic benefits that could increase the financial returns of a breed-to-wean system.

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Graph 1. Representation of organic matter (dOM) and energy (dGE) coefficients of by-products.

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Use of by-products in liquid feeding

The use of by-products from the agri-food industry reduces feed costs. This study explores the nutritional value of eight potential by-products for liquid feeding.

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Germany: Tierwohl Initiative, improving welfare to improve the end product

Tierwohl Initiative is an initiative that implies farms, abattoirs and supermarkets, and whose aim is to offer a better end product quality through the improvement of the animals’ welfare.

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People are continually exposed to incorrect information about livestock and the environment

A new study by FAO and published in Global Food Security found that livestock rely primarily on forages, crop residues and by-products that are not edible to humans and that certain production systems contribute directly to global food security, as they produce more highly valuable nutrients for humans, such as proteins, than they consume.

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European import duties for maize, sorghum and rye updated

This revised tariff, triggered by an automatic mechanism that calculates import duties, will avoid putting European producers at a disadvantage.

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Cost of PRRSV at individual farm level

The aim of this study was to develop an epidemiological and economic model to determine the costs of PRRS for an individual pig farm.

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Vietnam: MARD urges husbandry firms to save pig farms

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyễn Xuân Cường called on large animal husbandry businesses to increase their purchase of pigs and keep them in frozen storage in order to help farmers reduce inventories and stop the resulting downward price spiral.

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Interpig 2015: generalised drop in production costs

Among all the countries that make up in the InterPIG group, all except the USA, the UK and Canada showed a drop in production costs in comparison with 2014.

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Belgium: suppression and reduction of the contributions for the pig and cattle sectors

The Belgian Parliament has approved measures for supporting the pig and cattle producers.