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USDA Hogs & Pigs Report a Mixed Bag
2013-07-01 22:23:00| National Hog Farmer
By Steve Meyer, Paragon Economics, Inc., Adel, IA USDAs quarterly Hogs and Pigs report, released last Friday afternoon, was a mixed bag. Most of the key pieces of data were within 1% of the analysts averages in pre-report estimates but a few key numbers differed substantially. Figure 1 contains all of the key data as well as average pre-report estimates and comparisons of the two. read more
Hog Outlook: Hogs & Pigs Report Shows Market Hog Inventory Down
2013-07-01 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - USDA's June "Hogs and Pigs" report said the breeding herd was up 0.3 per cent compared to a year ago and the market hog inventory was down 0.1 per cent, write Ron Plain and Scott Brown.
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New Biomed Research Centre 'Specific Pig' Looks To Make Pigs Smaller
2013-06-24 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
SPAIN – Scientists working at a new biomedical research centre – Specific Pig- are working on a pig breeding programme to develop smaller pigs to help the costs of their animal testing programmes.
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Aarhus University Studies Effects of White Bread on Pigs
2013-06-17 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
DENMARK - Eating a diet containing too many easily-digestible carbohydrates and not enough fibre – like in white bread – increases the risk of obesity and diabetes. The same is true for pigs that are useful models for studies of the effects of diet on the metabolism in humans.
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Experts Respond to GM Feeding Study in Pigs
2013-06-13 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - Four experts in the analysis of scientific data, statistics and risk have commented on a recently published study examining the long-term health effects in pigs of a diet containing genetically modified maize and soybeans.
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