Quality Equipment: New feeders for piglets and weaners
Two new models have been added to the extensive range of pig feeders supplied by Suffolk manufacturing company, G E Baker Ltd, which trades as Quality Equipment.
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Canada - Livestock estimates
As of January 1, 2011, inventories of hogs were up slightly on a year-over-year basis. Hog producers reported 11.9 million hogs, up 0.6% and the first increase on a year-over-year basis since April 1, 2006.
Vietnam - MARD set 8% growth target for livestock sector
Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has targeted a growth rate of 7.5-8% for the husbandry industry during the period 2011-15.
Belorus - The Belarusian Government discussed the status and perspectives of private farm development
The Government stressed at the meeting that private farming has big potential and should expand production of export-oriented and import substituting products with adequate state support.
China - Animal husbandry makes significant achievements
During the Eleventh Five-Year Plan period, animal husbandry has made significant achievements in ensuring effective supplies of meat, eggs and milk and improving quality and safety of feed and animal products as well as safety and improvement of ecosystems, and maintained a steady and sustained momentum of development in general.
Preliminary investigations of the distribution of Escherichia coli O149 in sows, piglets, and their environment
This study provides preliminary data based on a sensitive detection method for E. coli O149 in pigs and their environment. The results demonstrate the potential of real-time PCR for future studies on this topic.
ARM Buildings to distribute Paneltim plastic panels
ARM Buildings of Rugeley, Staffordshire is taking over the joint UK distribution of Paneltim panels from TFS Limited of Cottesmore, Rutland, following the retirement of Jeremy Skipper, TFS’s founder.
ARM Buildings: Putting up piggeries in the snow
Despite the recent arctic conditions Staffordshire-based ARM Buildings has been able to continue with the majority of their contracts for new piggeries throughout the UK, reports the company.
USA - Swine premises identification program surpasses 90%
Today 92% of all U.S. swine premises have a nationally standardized premises identification number (PIN), as calculated by the Pork Checkoff using U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) data representing 65,907 premises.
Gestation in straw
The test we propose this week evaluates your knowledge about the welfare of gestational sows housed in straw.
Agromek 2010
Agromek 2010, mechanization for arable and livestock farming. Hering, Denmark.
Agromek attained a total visitor attendance of 37.403. This figure included 3.749 foreign guests.
Canada's economic action plan brings pork processing back to Saskatchewan
Canada’s Economic Action Plan is delivering real results for hog farmers and meat processors in Saskatchewan. Member of Parliament Ray Boughen (Palliser) announced an investment of more than $1.7 million to Donald’s Fine Foods for the refurbishing of its facility in Moose Jaw.
Non slip wellies a winter winner
Farmers fed up falling in frozen farmyards are making this a best ever winter for Bekina wellie boot sales.
Thompson’s tip: Monitor temperature during cold snaps
The recent cold snap is a reminder that winter is coming! Already, our practice is seeing upsurges in coughs and respiratory disease in pigs, probably triggered by fluctuations in temperature, says Paul Thompson, veterinary consultant to pig-breeding company ACMC Ltd.
Innovation awards for SonoCheck and QuigTag
SonoCheck is a newly-developed device for automatic pregnancy checking of sows in group housing
China - Proportion of standardized large-scale animal production in China to increase by 10-15 percentage points
The Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) stated that by 2015, the proportion of large-scale production of major animals would be raised by 10-15 percentage points and the number of standardized farms would account for 50% of the total of large-scale farms; productivity of those standardized large-scale farms would be improved; the animal waste would be treated to reach the standards for discharge or utilized as a resource; and the quality and safety of animal products would be substantially upgraded.