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Roundtable: Industry structure, culture, wild boars team up to intensify ASF threat in China
2019-01-13 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
The discovery of African swine fever (ASF) in China’s wild boar population in late 2018 adds a new dimension to the already ominous disease threat — one that could possibly leave the Chinese to deal with endemic ASF for years to come.
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'We’ve almost forgotten that boars just perform better'
2018-08-24 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
Larry Rueff, DVM, is a big believer in immunocastration. Ever since the swine veterinarian from Greensburg, IN, stopped physically castrating some of his pigs 4 years ago, and started using a protein compound that works like an immunisation to block boar taint, he’s noticed significant improvements in growth and feed efficiency.
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New way to combat infertility in your boars
2018-06-19 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
Researchers at the University of Missouri have now found that zinc plays a key role in promoting fertility in males, a discovery that has implications for improved in vitro fertilisation and artificial insemination in livestock and for human infertility diagnostics and therapies
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Can’t we just let boars be boars?
2017-09-12 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
Growing up on a small pig farm in the 1960s, we castrated boar pigs to remove taint, the odor that emanated if you fried pork from an intact boar in the skillet. Boar taint is the primary reason farmers around the world have castrated boars for hundreds if not thousands of years.
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Hypor Kanto Boars Shipped to Spain, Japan to Meet Strong Demand for Premium Pork
2016-10-12 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - Hypor Kanto pigs have been shipped to both Spain and Japan to meet the demand for a Duroc boar that is capable of producing premium pork for both the fresh meat and the processed meat markets.
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