Pigs inside a transport trailer on a highway.

Hogs’ transport stress called costly

Popular trailer designs and driver behaviour also increase pig stress during transportation, says Agriculture Canada researcher

Poor trailer design and transportation stress are killing pigs and costing the pork industry millions of dollars in penalties, meat quality downgrades and failed welfare audits, according to research by a federal scientist.








Photo: Geralyn Wichers

China wants slimmer pigs

Chinese government cracking down on speculative “refattening” practice

Chinese farmers and small firms have increasingly bought market-ready pigs from larger breeders and fattened them in a bet on higher prices, but the government is cracking down on the speculative practice to slim down hogs and stabilize the market.



Blond woman at a podium with the words "World Pork Expo" displayed upon it.

Three-in-one vaccine difficult to accomplish

DES MOINES, Iowa — It might sound easy to take three vaccines, mix them up and stick them in a bottle. It’s anything but in the real world of scientific limitations, commercial management and regulatory requirements. That daunting combination was on display when Merck Animal Health unveiled its Circumvent CML vaccine. Multiple studies examining the […] Read more

Hog nutrition expert Abiskek Shingote in front of a podium at the World Hog Expo in Des Moines

‘Intelligent nutrition’ promoted for livestock sector

DES MOINES, Iowa — Nutrition isn’t an easy or fast way to make money in the livestock industry. But that doesn’t seem to rattle the folks at Novus International, who enthusiastically presented their newest creations at the World Pork Expo here in June. “There is intellectual property on the nutrition side, you just have to […] Read more