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A new method of comparing the environmental performance of pig houses has been devised by Staffordshire-based ARM Buildings.

For today’s swine producer, efficiency is everything. It drives profitability and is a key success indicator if operations are to remain competitive in the current market. Because of this, the industry has come a long way in finding opportunities for improved efficiency – especially in the breeding herd.

A powerful next generation of one of the pig industry’s most popular environmental control systems is being launched at the British Pig and Poultry Fair (Stoneleigh Park, 15^th & 16^th May).

Semen Cardona is committed to one of the most advanced innovations in state-of-the-art packaging. This is BactiBag, recently created by IMV Technologies with the help on developement by Semen Cardona.

Feedpreservation.com is a new technical online platform solely about preserving feed and forage.

Presentations at ESPHM illustrate dedication to diagnostic improvements.

The 2nd WVA Animal Welfare Awards supported by Ceva puts the welfare of animals’ center stage as 5 veterinarians from Brazil, Canada, China, Senegal and Sweden are rewarded for their outstanding work to protect and promote best practices in animal welfare.

Among the successful APRIL proposals were very innovative projects on reducing antimicrobial resistance and better understanding the gut microbiome in animal health and performance, plus a couple on novel diagnostics and remote monitoring pig health.

Ceva to host Global Swine Webinar on Respiratory Diseases on May 8

Starting today, Smithfield will issue its 17th Sustainability Report in segments organized by the pillars of its comprehensive sustainability program each week during the month of May.

Despite being the world’s 6th largest producer of pork and growing global demand, Vietnam exports less than 1% of its total production.

Australian producers were not alone in receiving less for their pork, with EU prices down 7.6% on 2017; US down 22% in the past month; China down 23% in the past five weeks and UK down 2.5% on 2017.

Vietnam has a vital role on CPF growth, thanks to the domestic consumption demand and its export, which has expanded more than 20% compared to previous year, which was resulted from Vietnam having Free Trade Agreement with European countries and United States of America.

CPF has set a goal to replace individual gestation pens with group pens, a method that provides more relaxed environment. The practice will be manage both in Thai and overseas operations within 2025 and 2028 respectively.

This three-day event was a brilliant opportunity for the Tonisity team to firstly meet with their wider distributor network across Europe and Asia but it also gave them the chance to hear feedback on how they can best implement new marketing and sales tactics for the next year.

The additional language portal provides support for the company’s customers in Russia, CIS.

DLG-Agrifuture Insights "Chart of the Month" for April focuses on European farmers’ management challenges. Tackling social acceptance is rated as the most important challenge by German farmers.

Edwina Beveridge runs a mixed farming operation in New South Wales, Australia. At any given time, she has some 2,200 pigs on site - which adds up to a lot of methane. By investing in a methane digestion system, she now turns it into energy.