Also included is a chapter on the nutritional control of Salmonella (workshop) together with the posters that were presented at the meeting.
BSAS Publication No. 31
With the UK pig industry once again at a crucial crossroads, the need and willingness for better and more effective communication and collaboration between all sectors of the pig industry is gathering strength - from those involved in planning and conducting R&D to those who can harness and benefit from it in practice.
Contents
- Science and knowledge transfer - what the British pig industry needs
- Theories, successes and lessons
- Funding and facilitation - Defra's pig science and technology transfer programme
- The multiple retailers
- A direct marketeers view
- A British point of view
- Where are the gaps?
- Can genetics deliver?
- Regaining a high health status: Can it be done? How can it be done?
- The American dream: A quest for high health
- Light at the end of the tunnel
- Precision pig management - resolving conflicts by integrated solutions
- The production of more fast-growing heavy pigs every year
- Emerging feed legislation and related issues
- Current developments in pig welfare
- Environmental sustainability - legislation, policy drivers and perks
- Salmonella and food safety - why it matters for the British pig industry
- Biotechnology - opportunities for Europe
- Autofom - a new and improved technology for the UK pig industry
- Effect of Formi within a Salmonella control programme for finisher pigs
- The effect of floor type on ammonia emission, welfare, health and behaviour of growing pigs
- Longitudinal study of adverse behaviour of undocked pigs in two different housing systems
- Non-invasive endocrine assessments in the domestic sow: towards an automated reproductive monitoring system for pig production
- The effect of feeding a high fibre diet from mid-lactation until breeding on subsequent litter size of sows
- The effect of docosahexaenoic acid supplementation of the maternal diet on the performance and behaviour of piglets
- Effect of neutraceutical supplementation on the growth performance and antioxidant activity in liver and plasma of weaned piglets
- Effect of Formi, feed structure and feed processing on the gut health of pigs
- Index