ASF:To Know Me is to Kill Me
The world continues to grapple with losses and market place disruptions because of ASF. What can we do to mitigate risk? Is a vaccine the answer?
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Optimising sow
Creating the right environment in the farrowing barn can help minimize the challenges producers face when it comes to farrowing healthy piglets. Producers can send more
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900 Danish
One of China's top pig farming companies imported 906 breeding pigs from Denmark this week in the first import of live pigs in a year. The animals bought by CP
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EU pork prices
ISN reports on the latest market situation in Europe this week. Based on stable conditions in Germany, unchanged prices were also observed in the neighbouring
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US-China trade
iCME hog futures fell their daily limit on Monday (7 October), declining for a fifth straight session as an aggressive slaughter pace and uncertainty about this week's US
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Pork supply
China, the world's top pork consumer, will secure sufficient supplies of the meat for upcoming holidays, including the Lunar New Year in late January, said an
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South Korea and the Philippines are two additions to the list of regions with confirmed outbreaks of African swine fever in Asia, which now totals nine. Dr Dave Pyburn,
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Stepping away from common practice and sticking by your values to start your own business can be a daunting prospect. The Pig Site speaks to one pig farmer who has
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In one of the sheds, the farrowing crates are positioned on top of grower pens, so that the waste and afterbirth from the sows.