It’s 2035, and the changes in the pig industry have been radical! We see an average of 22 piglets per sow born alive with each weaning 18 piglets, amounting to an impressive 44 piglets per sow per year (PSY). Our farm output is at levels that have exceeded all...
Need insight into the pig industry? We’ve set out key terminology! (Part 2)
An explanation of key phrases often found in the pig industry that may not be common knowledge. This article will define industry and general terms.
Need insight into the pig industry?
An explanation of key phrases often found in the pig industry that may not be common knowledge. This article will define physiological and breeding terms.
The six different roles of zinc in pigs
The trace element zinc is being used in various ways in pig feed – both as an essential nutrition component but also, at pharmacological levels, to suppress scouring. This article aims to identify six different modes of actions of zinc for pigs. Trace minerals...
Keeping zinc out by using prefermented rape seed
The medicinal use of zinc oxide can be replaced by adding prefermented rape seed through pig diets, according to the 1st results of a Danish scientific study. Researchers at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, tested whether the inclusion of rape seed cake,...
Impact of feeding larvae to piglets and broilers
In the coming 4 years, scientists from Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands, together with the industry will investigate whether insect larvae are a sustainable source of nutrition for piglets and broilers. For the first time the full environmental...