FEEDING
Pipeline profits from 100 feeds per day
The sensor system refills with liquid feed each time the trough is emptied ensuring uniform feed consumption for all, even with 50 or more pigs in each pen.

A la carte menu for pigs
Very popular in the Netherlands and in Belgium, the multiphase feeding concept is also being developed in other countries, such as France where it can help farmers to manage environmental issues.

PREVIEW
EuroTier: focus on traceability
Over 1,100 exhibitors, including many new exhibitors, have already registered for EuroTier 2004 from 9-12 November in Hanover, organised by the German Agricultural Society (Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft, GLG)

COUNTRY
Growing potential for Chinese pig industry
A BPEX delegation went out to China to explore the possibilities for future British pork exports, and believe the country represents both challenges and opportunities for the major pig-producing countries in the West.

COLUMN
What the textbooks don't tell you about….
Organic acids.

HOUSING
Looking back on feed and climate systems
Over the last 20 years the housing and equipment industry for pigs has gone through some major changes. More accurate ventilation systems for better climate control, the introduction of fully automated feeding systems and group housing of sows are some of the major developments according to international companies.

Group housing experience
Dutch farmer, Piet Smit, has worked with electronic sow feeding for more than 15 years and has very definite views about the system's management from his own experience.

REVIEW
Danes buy into promising British market
New dynamics in the UK pig sector with a big foreign take-over, the best pig prices for years and introduction of a modern computerised carcase classification system was seen at the British Pig Fair, mid-May.

NUTRITION
Research into practice
Our 'research into practice' review is looking at recent studies with animal plasma, tryptophan and liquid feed influences on growth rate and appetite in young piglets.

 
July 7, 2004