Canada - Hog inventories down
Hog inventories on Canadian farms declined 7.3% between the third quarter of 2008 and the third quarter of 2009.
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Fewer slaughter pigs in Denmark
The export of piglets is working through on the pig counting performed by Statistics Denmark.
Maternal Nutrition and Foetal Development
Low maternal feed levels cause a reduction in muscle fibre numbers, whereas enhanced maternal nutrition resulted in a higher number of muscle fibres in specific muscles.
Australia - Livestock continues to fall in 2009
Livestock numbers remained flat or continued their falls of recent years, according to preliminary estimates released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Pfizer Trainee Awards for pig and poultry industries
Employees on pig and poultry farms in North Lincolnshire — Georgina Cherrill and Andrew Hall — are the 2009 winners of the Pfizer Trainee of the Year Awards.
Delacon Performing Nature Symposium in Crete/Greece
The Performing Nature Symposium was successfully held last week on the Greece island Crete, where Delacon gathered 250 people from more than 25 countries. In these two days 18 speakers held lectures on the following topics: Trends in animal production and nutrition, Immunity and Environment.
USA - Annual Pigs Per Breeding Animal Continues To Increase
The efficiency of the U.S. breeding herd continued to increase with the average number of pigs per breeding animal again on the rise.
Philippines - Gov’t hard-pressed to ensure enough meat for the holidays
Luzon faces increasing prospects of a meat shortage this Christmas, as the government falls short of target hog and poultry importations and Central Mindanao, a key producer of hog meat, not having enough for the country’s northern regions.
United Kingdom - British performance continues to catch up with the continent
Pig production costs in Great Britain rose by 12 percent in 2008, against a European Union average increase of 24 percent, according to the latest BPEX cost of production report.
The effect of feeding crude glycerol on growth performance and nutrient digestibility in weaned pigs
The substitution of wheat by crude glycerol (8%) in piglet diets may improves growth performance
United States and Canadian hog inventory down 3 percent
U.S. and Canadian inventory of all hogs and pigs for June 2009 was 78.2 million head. This was down 3 percent from June 2008 and down 1 percent from June 2007.
Czech Republic - Meat production and milk collection went down y-o-y
In the 3rd quarter 2009 meat production and milk collection decreased (by 6.9% and 2.8%, respectively).
USA - U.S. hog breeding inventory declines
On September 25th, USDA released the Quarterly Hogs and Pigs report showing that the September 1 inventory of breeding animals had declined more than 3 percent below the inventory of a year earlier.
Canadian hog herd drops in 2009
Hog inventories on Canadian farms declined 7.3 per cent between the third quarter of 2008 and the third quarter of 2009.
Global opportunity for pig industry people
People with a passion for the pig industry have a unique opportunity to study and travel as BPEX and Merial Animal Health are jointly sponsoring a Nuffield Scholarship award this year.
Young farmers gather at Agritechnica
Two-day programme to focus on careers, cross-border exchanges