UK - Total Income from Farming, 2009 and 2010
Total Income from Farming in 2009 is estimated to have risen by 25% and in real terms, and is forecast to fall by 8.8% in 2010.
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China - Pigs get ID chips
Pigs in southwest China from Friday began having two identity chips fixed on their back legs detailing where they were butchered, examined and sold.
USA - K-State Ag Profitability Conferences Slated for 11 Kansas Locations
Kansas State University Research and Extension will host 11 K-State Ag Profitability conferences beginning in early December.
USA - Livestock and meat agency projects help drive change in the industry
This pilot project benefits the entire industry by demonstrating that the producer is able to save a lot of money while limiting the environmental impacts.
Pig production in Russia
The vast majority of new farms are fully integrated with land to produce feed ingredients and for slurry disposal, feed manufacture, farms, slaughter and processing.
Waitrose cements commitment to UK farmers
In a bid to cut carbon emissions and create a more sustainable pork supply chain, Waitrose has announced the details of a grain sourcing initiative for its pig farmers. The multi million pound deal, the first of its kind in the UK, will mean that BQP/Dalehead Foods will source wheat and barley through the farmer-owned cooperative, Openfield, from within a 50 mile radius of the mill used to manufacture pig feed.
Canada - Hog inventories down
Hog inventories on Canadian farms declined 7.3% between the third quarter of 2008 and the third quarter of 2009.
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