Updates

July 3, 2009 - Winter Issue of Pork CRC Specials available
Making Headlines this issue:
-From the Top Shelf by Dr Roger Campbell, Pork CRC CEO
-Pork CRC APP Vaccine Delivers
-Pigs Flying In The Face Of Feed Conversion Convention
-Optimising Sow Productivity Workshop
- Pig Fair Worth Grunting About
- Cause for Calibration
- Pork CRC Board's Quarterly Meeting in WA
- Diary Dates 2009
NB: Anyone wanting more information, stories in alternate formats, images or other image options, should contact Brendon Cant

June 26, 2009 - Research findings - 2B-103 - The use of high cost weaner diets to improve post-weaning growth performance
The results from this investigation once again confirm the impact of weaning weight on lifetime growth performance. The economic analyses suggests that there is minimal benefit in offering the high cost feeding program to heavy weight weaners (weaners above 8.5 kg) when weaned at 27 days of age and possibly the medium weight weaners (above 6.5 kg). The high cost feeding program should still be utilised for the light weight weaners (weaning weight less than 6.5 kg at 27 days of age) to maximise their lifetime growth performance.

June 22, 2009 - Research findings- 2B-103 -Creep feeding – weaning age interactions with creep feeding
A final research report has been received and reports that the composition of creep feed has little effect on the pre or post weaning performance of pigs. While increasing weaning age (from 22 to 29 days) improves performance in the immediate post weaning period, it actually reduces carcass weight at 152 days of age (sale). It was also found that pigs weaned at 29 days of age had lower P2 at 152 days of age. Other findings included that birth weight has a marked effect on performance from birth to sale and that pigs of lighter birth weight have a lighter carcass weight and higher P2 than those of heavier birth weight

June 22, 2009 - Report on the VIII International Conference on Pig Reproduction
The conference was recently held at Banff, Alberta, Canada and was attended by approximately 200 delegates from around the world. The conference included a number of reviews describing a wide number of areas of extreme importance to breeding herd performance, these ranged from factors involved in determining semen quality and boar fertility through to management of the breeding gilt and lactating sow. The most novel, interesting and relevant information presented at this conference, either as part of a review or as an abstract, is summarised in the report by Drs W van Wettere and P Hughes. Their attendance at the conference was supported by the Pork CRC

Abstract Book also available

June 22, 2009 - Report on 9th International Symposium on Digestive Physiology of Pigs
While the pre-symposium workshop demonstrated that considerable advances have been made in the understanding of factors that regulate feed intake of pigs in terms of the physiological, nutritional, hormonal and metabolic aspects, the conference itself showed the complexity involved in the control of feed intake in pigs, and how commercial solutions to the issue require much further research and investigation.
There were five sessions attended by Prof Pluske, and all are reported on. He found that only a few papers dealt with growing-finishing pigs, as the preponderance of papers concerned the weaner pig. As the DPP conference is the only international pig-specific conference of its kind, attendance provided up-to-date information on research in this and related fields pertaining to pigs. It is also reassuring to know that research being conducted in Australia by the Pork CRC is internationally competitive and relevant. There were eight implications for the Australian pig Industry and the Pork CRC noted in the report
Prof Pluske’s attendance at the conference was supported by the Pork CRC

Victorian Pig Fair - July 28 -29, 2009 - Update - Information for Exhibitors
2009 Victorian Pig Fair to be held at the Bendigo Exhibition Centre, Holmes Rd, Bendigo.

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