SEMINAR – GUT HEALTH | MARCH 12 | 16.00 – 17.30PM | ROOM: JUPITER 7 Year after year again, it becomes clearer how important a healthy gut is for pigs. After all, intensive antibiotics use is increasingly being discouraged all over the planet, and Asia is no exception in that sense. For that reason, it […]

With the threat of a 25% tariff on all imported Canadian goods on 1 February, Canadian pork producers who ship pigs across the southern border are feeling stressed. President Trump has threatened tariffs as a way to ensure the federal and provincial governments in Canada curb illegal immigration and fentanyl trafficking into his country.

Some say that, in order to save the planet, mankind had better focus on becoming totally independent of livestock. Pigs, poultry and cattle, however, have an important role to play in order to achieve a truly circular economy – after all, what to do with leftovers of food production?

Feb 1, 2025 · Pig Progress brings you the latest business news and updates from the global pig industry, including new feed additives for the swine sector, the completion of a new pig genetics company, and partnerships aimed to improve pig health and performance.This and more. Layn Natural Ingredients presents new swine feed additive . Layn Natural Ingredients has launched feed additives for swine that ...

For the first time since the devastating outbreaks of African Swine Fever, the Chinese market has been stable again. Supply and demand are in relative balance, with producers all making money. Bit by bit, China’s pig industry is facing a new reality. Productivity is expected to …

Following high losses in 2021 and 2022 and a return to profitability in 2023 and 2024, the Irish pig sector is expected to see moderate levels of profitability in 2025.

Feb 7, 2025 · A recent piece of research has emphasised the importance of decent targeted surveillance as well as the use of sentinel animals when building up the swine herd again after an African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreak. That result became clear from a recently published study in the Philippines. Just like ...

Oct 21, 2024 · In the last 8 years, Germany’s pig slaughter figures have shown a downward trend. At its peak, around 60 million pigs were slaughtered; this year, however, only an estimated 44.5 million pigs will be slaughtered.

Pigs which have died from PSS are usually in good condition and develop rigor mortis rapidly. There is some oedema and collapse of the lung. Pale, soft exudative muscle (PSE) develops in 60-70% of affected pigs within 15 minutes of death and appears as pale areas contrasting with the deeper red unaffected muscle when the longissiimus dorsi (back) or ham muscles are cut.

Foot-and-Mouth Disease virus is shed by aerosol and from ruptured vesicles on tongue, snout and feet. It infects by direct contact with infected pigs, by inhalation and by the consumption of contaminated feed or water.