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Weekly Overview: First PRRS-Resistant Pigs Bred
2015-12-15 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
ANALYSIS - There was big news from Genus this week after it announced that it has produced the first ever pigs resistant to Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS), in collaboration with the University of Missouri, US.
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Safe Reintroduction of Feeding Food Waste to Pigs a Sustainable Option
2015-12-11 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
EU - A new study shows that if the European Union lifted the pigswill ban imposed following 2001's foot-and-mouth disease epidemic, and harnessed technologies developed in East Asian countries for 'heat-treating' our food waste to safely turn it into pig feed, around 1.8 million hectares of land could be saved from being stripped for grain and soybean-based pig feed production - including over quarter of a million hectares of Brazilian forest and savannah.
Sampling Finds No More Chloramphenicol in Live Pigs
2015-12-11 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
HONG KONG - Following up on a case early last month in which urine samples from pigs supplied from a farm in San Tin, Yuen Long, tested positive for the prohibited veterinary drug chloramphenicol, the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) has completed testing of further samples taken from that farm and all samples tested negative for chloramphenicol.
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Russia Reports More ASF in Pigs
2015-12-10 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
RUSSIA - Russia has reported two new outbreaks of African Swine Fever in backyard pigs and wild boar.
PRRS-resistant pigs: a genetic showstopper
2015-12-08 23:41:00| National Hog Farmer
A team of researchers from the University of Missouri, Kansas State University, and Genus plc have bred pigs that are not harmed by the disease. read more
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