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AMI Foundation honors Smithfield Foods, facilities for their environmental and workplace safety efforts

Smithfield Foods, Inc. said today that the company's facilities across the United States received a total of 62 awards for their environmental and worker safety efforts from the American Meat Institute (AMI) Foundation.

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Canada: funding increase to help pig producers invest in technology to protect water resources

Increased funding under the Manure Management Financial Assistance Program will help pig producers access more funding to help with the cost of installing manure-management and treatment systems.

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Commission takes France to Court for failing to combat water pollution by nitrates

The European Commission is referring France to the EU Court of Justice for failing to take measures to guarantee that water pollution by nitrates is addressed effectively.

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Investigating sulphur content in pig slurry using a nutritional approach

The feed composition may have a marked effect on sulphur excretion, with a specific contribution of some feedstuffs with high inorganic sulphur content.

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United Kingdom: IPPC and gilts: change to the Environment Agency's earlier position

Following a ruling by the European Court of Justice in December, it has been confirmed that the expression 'places for sows' in IPPC must be interpreted as including places for gilts that have already been served, but have not yet farrowed.

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Growth performance, nitrogen, and phosphorus excretion of pigs fed with incremental levels of DDGS

Maize DDGS may present a viable option to substitute a premium feed ingredient in growing–finishing pig diets.

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Ireland: new agreement on organic fertiliser control set to reduce administrative burden for pig and poultry sector

Minister Coveney highlighted 'this agreement will significantly assist the industry and make the transfer of pig or poultry manure to both new users and existing farms much easier [...]'

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Netherlands: more balanced manure market management

The new system aims to encourage employers to limit their excess manure and try to give them answers, through cooperation and innovation capacity.

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Modeling the fate of dietary phosphorus in the digestive tract of growing pigs

A mathematical model serves as a tool to study phosphorus digestibility for different feedstuffs and feeding strategies.

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Sustainability on the pig farm

This short film by John Harrison shows how Irno Pretto Farm in Brazil was transformed by introducing the Integrated Farming and Waste Management System (IFWMS) developed by George Chan of the ZERI Foundation. Productivity and biodiversity were increased while generating energy, reducing waste and eliminating pollution.

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Manure Management

Swine CAFOs create a lot of waste but what if that waste isn't waste at all. What if it is actually a nutrient rich byproduct that replaces petroleum-based fertilizers, cuts farm costs up to 75 percent per acre, and works toward rebuilding topsoil...Wait a minute, that's exactly what hog manure does. Get the scoop on pig poop.

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Dietary PC content of barley grain based, but not by corn based, diets affects methane produced by finisher pigs

The objective was to study effects of decreasing CP concentration on CH4 production, C retention efficiency and performance by finisher pigs.

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Swine manure digester

Use of Lagoon Biogas for Incineration of Swine Mortalities in Morrilton, AR

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Australia: Methane emissions stand to boost farmers' income

The Australian Government today launched the first methodology to be approved under the Carbon Farming Initiative, which will provide pig farmers with the opportunity to earn carbon credits for reducing methane emissions from manure.

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United Kingdom: £20 million for farming and forestry businesses

A new £20 million fund to help rural businesses increase profits and reduce their impact on the environment.

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Genetic and environmental effects on piglet survival and maternal behaviour of the farrowing sow

One of the key components of survival in alternative, loose-housed farrowing systems is maternal behaviour and understanding the characteristics of sows that influence survival in such environments should be an essential component when developing new breeding indices.