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Pig Wasting Syndrome Costs Farmers Millions
2013-03-27 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - Stark new figures show that a common pig virus - post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) - present on 99 per cent of pig farms has major economic implications for individual farmers and the pig industry as a whole, costing British farmers as much as £84 per pig (if the pig dies from the syndrome) and during epidemic periods, such as 2008, costing the pig industry £88 million per year.
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Pig Farmers Encouraged to Turn Profits from Pig Waste
2013-03-08 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
JAMAICA - Pig farmers are being encouraged to engage in the sustainable management of waste from their farms as a means of reducing their production costs and improving their profit margins.
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Korean Pig Farmers Hit as Pork Imports Jump
2013-02-22 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
SOUTH KOREA - Korea’s pork imports soared nearly 35 per cent in January from the previous month, dragging down prices and posing a threat to pig farms in the country, sources reported.
Asipulo Farmers, Women Learn Organic Duck, Native Pig Raising
2013-02-19 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
PHILIPPINES - Personnel of the Provincial Veterinary Office (PVET) conducted lectures on organic duck raising and upgraded native pig production to farmers and members of women organizations of the remote community of Natkak in barangay Camandag recently.
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German Pig farmers Ignore EU Animal Protection Laws
2013-02-13 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GERMANY - Der Spiegel magazine recently met a group of activists secretly breaking into Germany's pig farms in the dead of night to document wide-spread flouting of laws designed to improve conditions for pigs kept in large-scale livestock compounds.
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