United States Hog Inventory Down 1 Percent United States inventory of all hogs and pigs on December 1, 2013 was 65.9 million head. This was down 1 percent from December 1, 2012, and down 2 percent from September 1, 2013. Breeding ...
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Soybeans closed higher Friday. DTN cites buying late in the session, the result of USDA's bullish export sales figures for soybeans. That may have been even more bullish, except for a general distrust of USDA's estimates, and of China's ...
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NUTRIQUEST, the leader in real-world production solutions, is pleased to announce the launch of Evosure™, its new specialty ingredient developed specifically to optimize starter pig performance. Evosure is purpose-built to meet the ...
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The chair of the National Farm Animal Care Council's Pig Code Development Committee says the update of Canada's Pig Code of Practice is on track for completion by mid-spring. The National Farm Animal Care Council's Pig Code Development ...
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Hans H. Stein, University of Illinois professor in the department of animal sciences, has released a new brochure called "Nutritional value of soy products fed to pigs." The new brochure contains very detailed nutritional information on ...
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Along with red, green is the color of this holiday season. And bright green is showing up in more than just decorations. ?In Guangdong Province in Southern China, ten transgenic piglets have been born this year, six of them since August, ...
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The general manager of the National Farm Animal Care Council says the process for updating Canada's Codes of Practice for raising livestock has ensured broad public participation in the effort. The Pig Code of Practice is one of eight ...
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While climate change negotiators struggle to agree on ways to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, they have paid inadequate attention to other greenhouse gases associated with livestock, according to an analysis by an international ...
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There's a lot of bearish news for corn lately. But, there's hope for the bulls in the hog business. No, it's not going to get any easier for you to add value to your grain by feeding a few hogs on your place like what was the case in ...
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Organic waste from pigs on a farm in Leicestershire, UK, is helping to power an estimated 700 homes and reduce landfill waste by 18,000 tonnes each year. The pig waste, combined with other food waste, is being used to produce biogas ...
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After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely? A few years ago, I started looking online to fill in chapters of my family history that no ...
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IFA President John Bryan said further findings from the DNA-testing Programme on pigmeat carried out by IFA show that consumers continue to be misled and there is a very disappointing level of support for Irish pig producers. From almost ...
A new study out of California has identified some practical steps that men can take to avoid developing prostate cancer, and all of them involve making simple dietary changes. Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco ...
More conventional farmers, both small and large, are beginning to ease off antibiotic use on their animals. Pharmaceutical antibiotics had become popular as CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations) came into existence. Antibiotics began ...
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Chicken and oc may seem like an obvious pairing to culinary enthusiasts, but at least one Pennsylvania farm is demonstrating its extraordinary health benefits in food production as well. For three years or so, chickens at Bell & Evans have ...
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