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Hogs, Livestock

Getting weanlings off to a good start

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When we think of nurturing young pigs, it’s always the piglets in the farrowing rooms that take centre stage. Yet, in just the time it takes to move piglets into the nursery, those same piglets find themselves in a strange environment, without their mother and her generous milk bar. Not only is this stressful and
Hogs, Livestock

Early life influences on breeding performance

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The North American pork industry is increasingly focusing on sow lifetime performance as a key goal for the breeding herd rather than pigs weaned per sow. After all, if high replacement rates and moderate lifetime productivity can be improved, the cost of producing piglets will be reduced. This was the theme of the recent Swine
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New EU welfare laws could shrink pork supplies

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Reuters/Pig numbers in the European Union could fall by as much as 10 per cent and the price of pork could rise substantially when tougher animal welfare regulations come into force next year. Some farmers are likely to leave the industry, especially in Spain, a major producer where a credit squeeze will make it harder
Hogs, Livestock, News, Opinion

Public relations not the solution for hog producers

Re: “Pork producers explore ways to improve their public image” (April 1). Apparently producers want to improve their public image, which has resulted in advertising showing a farmer cuddling a piglet, or a family involved in the same activities as the rest of us, to engender that warm, fuzzy feeling towards producers. There is also
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Meeting the challenge of heavier carcass weights

The demand from pork processors for heavier carcasses has created a number of challenges for hog producers which need to be addressed in order to ensure that increasing the weight at which pigs are marketed is profitable. This was the message to producers from Dr. Eduardo Beltranena, with Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development, at the
Hogs, Livestock

Functioning teats needed for successful piglet fostering

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Cross-fostering is a common way of maximizing the number of piglets weaned in a sow farrowing operation. But like all livestock management techniques, there are no hard and fast rules, only guidelines that are based on the resources available to the barn manager, said Dennis Robles, a hog production expert with Swine Health Professionals. The
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Supplementary rearing worth a second look

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Genetic advances in litter size over the last 15 years have provided hog producers with the potential for 14 or more piglets born alive per litter and the ability to boost herd output to 30 pigs weaned per sow. But as I have pointed out in previous articles, this presents a number of challenges and
Hogs, Livestock

Extending The Sow’s Productive Lifetime

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Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain Consulting Ltd. of Lacombe, Alberta, and editor of Western Hog Journal. His columns will run every second week in the Manitoba Co-operator. While many producers use pigs per sow per year as the benchmark for success in the breeding herd, there is now much more focus on lifetime
Hogs, Livestock

Early Nursery Performance Not Affected By Diet Complexity

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Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain Consulting Ltd. of Lacombe, Alberta, and editor of Western Hog Journal. His columns will run every second week in the Manitoba Co-operator. Recent research by Dr. Denise Beaulieu at the Prairie Swine Centre suggests that the response of newly weaned pigs to two dietary regimes based on a
Hogs, Livestock

China Banks On Massive Pork Farms

BEIJING/SHANGHAI/REUTERS A growing number of firms have laid out plans to build massive industrial-scale pig farms in China, the world’s largest pork consumer, as Beijing resumed a $2.5-billion-yuan subsidy to spur pig breeding and prevent future supply shocks. China, the pork powerhouse of the world, produces some 50 million tonnes of pork each year and

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