USA - USDA predicts record corn yield, soybean crop
USDA forecast the largest U.S. corn yield and largest soybean crop in history for the 2009/10 marketing year.
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Pork CRC: Award winning pig egg cells
Vital research to reduce seasonal infertility, an ongoing problem for Australia’s pig industry, has been rewarded with a 2009 Science and Innovation Award for Michael Bertoldo, a Pork CRC supported PhD student at The University of Sydney.
FAO - On horizon 2050 - billions needed for agriculture
Net investments of $83 billion a year must be made in agriculture in developing countries if there is to be enough food to feed 9.1 billion people in 2050, according to an FAO discussion paper.
Pork CRC makes pig's breakfast of award
Feeding pigs has sometimes been a fairly hit-and-miss affair, but award-winning new technology developed with Pork CRC support aims to bring precision livestock farming technology to piggeries across Australia and make pig feeding less of a pig’s breakfast.
Effects of dietary soybean oil on lipid and protein oxidation in pork patties during chill storage
Dietary soybean oil suplementation of growing-finishing diets does not affect lipid oxidation in pork products
The effect of castration method and dietary raw potato starch supply on sensory quality of pork
The use of raw potato starch in the finishing diets may reduce boar taint perception in entire males, however boar taint it is not completely reduced
Phosphorus requirements of growing-finishing pigs reared in a commercial environment
A challenge in animal production today is to raise livestock within new environmental rules and regulations. Although most states in the United States regulate swine waste application based on N concentration, more are changing to P-based regulations.
Effects of feeder design on growth performance and carcass characteristics of finishing pigs
The use of a wet-dry feeder improves pig performance until slaughter, without improving carcass performance.
Influence of micronization (fine grinding) of soya bean meal and fullfat soya bean on productive performance and digestive traits in young pigs
Soya bean meal and fullfat soya bean micronization does not improve piglet performance and digestibility of dietary components
FAO - Food production will have to increase by 70 percent
Producing 70 percent more food for an additional 2.3 billion people by 2050 while at the same time combating poverty and hunger, using scarce natural resources more efficiently and adapting to climate change are the main challenges world agriculture will face in the coming decades, according to an FAO discussion paper.
Belgium - New test farm for pigs
The Belgian Trial and Education Centre for Agriculture (PVL) will construct a new test farm for pigs in Bocholt.
Effect of graded levels of iron, zinc, and copper supplementation in diets with low phytate or normal barley on growth performance, bone characteristics, hematocrit volume, and zinc and copper balance of young swine
Fe and Zn supplementation of pig diets may stimulate growth performance in young animals
The effect of iron glycine chelate on tissue mineral levels, fecal mineral concentration, and liver antioxidant enzyme activity in weanling pigs
Iron glycine chelate improves iron tissue storage and Zinc retention in liver and kidney in weanling piglets
Use of Oligosaccharides in Swine Nutrition
Our research model has been a short chain fructooligosaccharide (scFOS) fed to swine. This compound was selected because it was identified in human and swine milk, was shown to have health benefits in human infants and patients recovering from intestinal anastomosis. The health benefit was believed to occur via the trophic effect of scFOS on the Bifidobacteria population.
L-Carnitine supplementation during suckling intensifies the early postnatal skeletal myofiber formation in piglets of low birth weight
L-Carnitine supplementation of piglet diets may reduce the negatieve impact of low birth weight
Responses of pigs to Aspergillus niger phytase supplementation of low-protein or high-phytin diets
The use of an exogenous microbial phytase in growing diets may improve P digestibility and bioavailability