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Articles in the June 2018 Better Pork Include: Beyond the Barn: There's a New Tariff in Town, Pork Industry Lends a 'Helping Hoof', Comparing Nitrogen Sources Tariffs on items from the U.S., including pork, have been enforced for China. Canada is worried about this trade disruption as China is one of Canada's most valuable pork export markets. Ontario's Pork Friends of the Food Bank are raising money to supply fresh...
Articles in the April 2018 Better Pork Include: Beyond the Barn: Breeding Away Castration, Antibiotic Alternatives to the Rescue, Revised TPP Opens Doors for Pork A swine genetic trait is being developed to eliminate the need for castration. Animal well-being would be improved by this and boar taint would be prevented. Male piglets would remain at the pre-pubertal state so castration would be unnecessary. An amino acid may be able...
Articles in the February 2018 Better Pork Include: Beyond the Barn: 'Gene'rating Heat for Modern Pigs, Filling a Niche in European Markets, Hot Hogs Don't Drink More Water A more cold-tolerant pig is being bred in China and the UK. This may lead to stronger piglets. When the gene is expressed, energy stored in fat is used rather than in muscle. Canadian Food Inspection Agency has changed health mark practices...
Articles in the 2017 Better Pork Include: Beyond the Barn: Quebec Stream-Lines Hog Risk Management, Finding the Best Fit for the Barn, Producers Continue to Confront PED, Shaping Agriculture's Public Narrative, The Cost of a Curly Tail Automation and simplification of the system Service de gestion du risque du marché will be increased with the new funding for risk management. Pigs have different personalities, with some that may be better...
Articles in the June 2017 Better Pork Include: Beyond the Barn: Using Pigs to Advance Human Health, Send a Tasty Video Message, Lowering the Spread of Disease, Enrichment: Novelty or Necessity?, Pork Industry Tickled Pink by Genomics Smithfield Bioscience was launched with efforts to explore new technologies and methods for tissue regeneration and organ transplantation. A new font was developed made out of bacon that anyone can use and Apple...
Articles in the April 2017 Better Pork Include: Beyond the Barn: Creating Swine Surrogates for Leading Boars, New Gadget for Cooking Bacon, Lessons Learned from H1N1 Outbreak, Ensuring Biosecurity at Boar Studs Male pigs have been developed that can produce sperm genetically identical to a selected donor boar. They can be surrogates for donor boars as they cannot create sperm with their own genetic material. A Bacon Express toaster has been...
Articles in the February 2017 Better Pork Include: Beyond the Barn: Importing Viruses via Feed, Shopping for Bacon in Virtual Reality, Canadian Pork Industry Hoping TPP Won't be DOA (Dead on Arrival), Label Claims for the 98% Viral pathogens can travel through imported feed from high-risk countries. U.S. and Canada have high level regulations to ensure disease prevention. Hormel Foods introduced The Black Market as a virtual world where consumers...
Articles in the August 2016 Better Pork Include: Beyond the Barn: Social (Ag)Media, Bacon Critic Wanted, New Tech to Ensure Manure Pit Safety, The Loose Housing Revolution Many producers are on social media. Accounts about agriculture are listed. A breakfast website, Extra Crispy, is looking for an American to become their bacon critic A website tool has been created to help confined-space manure storage pit design stay safe for entry...
Grains that are contaminated with mycotoxins are often downgraded for use in livestock feed. The incidence of contaminated grain is increasing, so avoiding contamination continues to become more difficult. Strategies to reduce or eliminate mycotoxins have been proposed with many that deactivate the mycotoxin through binding and are used as non-nutrient additives. Current feed additives in general are not very effective in mitigating the effects of the mycotoxin deoxynivalenol (DON)....
Land application of livestock wastewater is creating challenges for producers due to costs and environmental impacts. Finding alternatives is of great interest in order to have safe disposal with reduced costs. Wastewater contains nitrogenous and organic compounds that can be a source of energy and could offset the energy required for treatment if harnessed. Microbial fuel cell technology was examined in treating agricultural wastewater with nitrogenous and organic compounds. This...