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Hogs, Livestock

High Litter Size Requires New Approach

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Hogs, News

Sow Cull Raises Hog Shortage Spectre

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As the hog industry continues its economic free fall and more producers leave the business, a worrisome question arises: will Western Canada have enough pigs for its pork-packing plants? The question would have been unthinkable a few years back when production was booming and the sky seemed the limit for the rapidly expanding pork industry.
Hogs, Livestock

Beleaguered Brit Pork Producers Fight Back

As our industry looks at how to respond to the decline in its competitive position, it might be worth studying what happened in the U. K. 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.
Hogs, Livestock

Practical Control Of Sow Feed Costs

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. Many aspects of gilt and sow management affect feed use efficiency and getting these right can help to control sow feed costs, says Andrew Jackson, with
Hogs, Livestock, Livestock Markets

U. S. hog data hints herd reduction over

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A sharp drop in feed grain prices during the latter half of 2008 apparently ended hog producers’ plans to pare herds, a move that could mean more hogs in 2009 than previously expected, analysts said after viewing USDA hog herd data Dec. 30. Opinions were mixed on the direction of February and April contracts, with
Dairy cattle, Hogs, News

High feed intake essential in lactation

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Peet on Pigs Anything that reduces the palatability of the feed will reduce intake. 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. First of two articles on nutrition during lactation The nutritional demands on
Hogs, Livestock, News

Air filters can help contain disease

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Air filters are working to keep pigs safe from porcine respiratory and reproductive syndrome (PRRS), Dr. Scott Dee of the University of Minnesota told a recent industry day organized by the Ontario Pork Industry Council (OPIC). The lab and research farm results are confirmed by farm experience, said veterinarian Darwin Reicks of the nine-veterinarian Swine
Hogs, Livestock, News

German hog farms adapt to stall-free, drug-free model

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Germany, it appears, could teach Canadian hog farmers a thing or two. And two of its hog producers came here to the annual swine industry seminar recently to do exactly that. German producers have learned through trial and “a lot of mistakes” how to raise hogs in free-stall conditions, said Dr. Friedrich Osterhoff of Ahrhoff
Hogs, Livestock, News

U. K. producers have success with batch farrowing

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. A recent survey by U. K. pharmaceutical company Janssen Animal Health suggests that more than half of producers in the country farrow batches of sows every
Hogs, Livestock

Maximizing piglet survival

BERNIE PEET Peet on Pigs 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. Careful attention to sow and piglet management and close co-operation between staff is the key to maximizing piglet survival, Ciaran Ormond,

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