Perinatal flavour learning and adaptation to being weaned: all pigs needs is smell
Perinatal flavour learning may reduce piglets’ stress from birth onwards.
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Avoid food price crisis
According to Da Silva, the establishment of the agricultural market information system (AMIS) makes us better prepared for the current situation.
Quinoa hull meal affects on piglet performance and intestinal epithelial physiology
Saponin-enriched diets may affect intestinal permeability but this not alter piglet performance.
Effects of the physical environment, animal traits, feeder and feed characteristics on the feeding behaviour and performance of growing-finishing pigs
These results may contribute to the improvement of the welfare and performance of growing-finishing pigs by a better knowledge of the influence of the rearing environment.
Digestibility of GE and TDF in diets containing novel carbohydrates fed to growing pigs
GE and TDF digestibility of novel carbohydrates sources for growing pigs.
USA: Vilsack announces efforts to assist farmers and ranchers impacted by drought
The assistance announced uses the Secretary of Agriculture's existing authority to help create and encourage flexibility within four USDA programs.
Effects of adding cracked corn to a pelleted supplement for nursery and finishing pigs
The use of cracked corn in pelleted diets may improve performance and reduce gastric ulcer scores in fattening pigs.
DELACON appoints Head of Communications
Markus Dedl, CEO of DELACON, is pleased to announce the appointment of Gernot Ortmann as Head of Communications.
The Danish Salmonella control program - lessons learnt
Interventions can only reduce but not eradicate Salmonella from the herd. This emphasises the importance of trying to avoid introduction especially Salmonella Typhimurium or Salmonella Derby.
Plant additives as an alternative to feed antimicrobials in the prevention of postweaning diarrhoea in pigs
Both plants, Eugenia and Pterocarya can represent effective alternatives to feed antimicrobials for the use in prevention of PWD in pigs, but further studies are necessary.
FAO Food Price Index falls again
The FAO Food Price Index fell for the third consecutive month in June 2012, dipping 1.8 percent from May to its lowest level since September 2010.
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NewsNutrient Requirements of Swine: Eleventh Revised Edition
The eleventh revised edition of the Nutrient Requirements of Swine builds on the previous editions published by the National Research Council.
U.S. farmers plant the largest corn crop since 1937
U.S. farmers planted 96.4 million acres of corn, up 5 percent from last year, making it the highest corn acreage in the last 75 years.
Commission approves acquisition of joint control over Danish animal by-products company Daka by SARIA and Danish Crown
The proposed transaction would not raise any horizontal competition concerns as the parties mostly operate in different Member States. In those markets where the parties' activities do overlap, namely certain markets for the supply of category 3 animal fats and proteins and the supply of category 2 animal meals, they will still face sufficiently strong competition after the merger to exclude competitive concerns.
European Union compound feed production down
The total production estimate is now set at 151 mio. t, i.e. 0.3% below the figure for 2010.
UE: minimum share of feed produced in the own holding for organic porcine and poultry species
In case of pigs and poultry, at least 20 % of the feed shall come from the farm unit itself.