Ready! I wrote an elaborate feature about my visit to the brand new Ontario Swine Research Centre (OSRC) in Canada 🇨🇦, this March. This week at PigProgress.net you can read all about it, and we're presenting it in 3 chapters.

Check out part 1 here ⏩ lnkd.in/edXjiPqz

According to local farmers in Serbia, a surge in pork imports from European Union member states has pushed the average profitability in the country's pig industry below the break-even point...

Read more about the pig Industry in Serbia at: ow.ly/ZF7650Rqse8

#Pork #Serbia

At the beginning of this year, diversification of destinations led Brazil to a new record for pork exports.

To read more about Brazil's pork exports, go to Pig Progress!
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#Brazil #Export #Pork #Destinations

Together with colleague @Iris_Hofman I had a great visit to the finisher pig farm Azienda Agricola Vanessa Bassoni in Piedmont region, Italy 🇮🇹. As part of the Fumagalli concept, they produce heavy pigs on straw for the Italian & UK market. Expect covarage soon at PigProgress.net

According to the European Commission, Further dialogue with stakeholders is needed before any overhaul of animal welfare legislation.

Read the article at Pig Progress to learn why the EU Commission made this statement.
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#EU #Stakeholders #Welfare

The short-term addition of grapeseed extract to the diets of finisher pigs promotes the transformation could be beneficial for pork quality.

Learn more about grapeseed extract in pig diets at Pig Progress.
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#pigs #nutrition #grapeseed

On the road again, presenting at the XLIX Annual Meeting of the Società Italiana di Patologia ed Allevamento dei Suini. Honoured to be invited to this event in Italy 🇮🇹 to talk about trends in the  #swine  industry on behalf of PigProgress.net. Big credits to Saowanee ter Beek-Pongpueng for the pics!

Chinese researchers evaluated the effects of fermented tea residue on, among others things, the post-weaning diarrhoea rate in the plasma of weaned piglets.

Read more about how supplementing fermented tea could reduce post-weaning diarrhoea at: ow.ly/A63E50RhWaz

#Piglets

According to pig nutrition expert Dr Francesc Molist of Schothorst Feed Research, reporting on sustainability in the livestock production chain will be high on the agenda for 2024.

Read more about this at Pig Progress or click on the link below!
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#Pigs

Development of the pig industry requires an improved protein utilisation rate from new protein sources with lower carbon footprint and land use.

Read this article at: ow.ly/PwmL50Rc4bs, where 7 alternative protein sources in the pig’s diet will be discussed...

#Feed #Pigs

China has granted permission for pork export to the first 3 Russian pig companies... Deliveries can begin as early as tomorrow,” the Russian Union of Pork Producers (RUPP) said in a statement on February 28.

Read more at: ow.ly/SzhH50RaeAa

#Pig #Export #China #Russia

And more #pigs crossed my path today. Together with colleagues Iris Hofman and Paulus Maessen I visited the organic farm of Ruben Exterkate today, near Bentelo, the Netherlands 🇳🇱. He was kind enough to allow us to make videos for use on PigProgress.net in the next months to come.

Organic forms of selenium are the optimal nutritional source, but even within organic forms there are various possibilities.

Take a look at the different possibilities of supplementing selenium at: ow.ly/G0PP50R95sH

#Selenium #Pigs #Organic

“My visit to Germany resulted in business agreements for projects with an aggregate value of USD 4 billion in different sectors including agriculture.”

Read the full item at Pig Progress:
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#Philippines #pork #EU #trade

No #pigs involved, but news worth sharing as bird flu didn't stay just with feathered farm animals. Avian influenza got identified in #dairy #cattle in Texas, Kansas & New Mexico 🇺🇸. Kudos to Zana Van Dijk for the report in DairyGlobal.

Read more here ⏩ lnkd.in/ewC3EGDa

Flashback to last week in Guelph, ON, Canada 🇨🇦... It was great to give a presentation on trends in the #pig industry in Europe and the rest of the world at the AGM of Ontario Pork Producers. And also a fantastic opportunity to obtain some great content for PigProgress.net as well!

Very spot on, presentation of Prof Mike von Massow of University of Guelph at the AGM of Ontario Pork Producers. 'It's not a trust issue. We are discussing topics with consumers out there but some of them have no idea what is happening in food production.' #OPAGM2024

Had a good look around today in the brand new Ontario Swine Research Centre of the University of Guelph University of Guelph. I learnt a lot about the latest developments in Ontario's swine research, thanks to John de Bruyn of Ontario Pork Producers.

Read more in a feature soon in PigProgress.net!

Three wise men to be speaking shortly at the Ontario #Pork AGM in Guelph, ON 🇨🇦. Peter Hall 🇨🇦 Global AgriTrends

The European Parliament approved new rules to reduce harmful emissions from industrial installations and large pig and poultry farms.

Check out more information about the new regulations at Pig Progress!
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