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April 2003

April 2003

Selected Articles


Behind The Lines

Letters

Cover
Outbreak Zoning: Canada's best defence against contagious animal diseases

Guelph research will focus on meat quality and variability

Engineering - by Ron MacDonald
Strategies to reduce or control odours on the farm

Management-  by Jim Dalrymple
Code addendum provides valuable guidance for those practising early weaning   

Economics-  by Lynn Marchand
Average Ontario swine farm profitable and growing between 1998 and 2001

Second Look- by Richard Smelski
What happened to the idea of getting better before getting bigger

Herd Health - by S. Ernest Sanford
Bacteriophages: What are they? And can they replace antibiotics?




Pork News & Views

Nutrition-  by Janice Murphy
Test your knowledge of swine digestion

Environment - by Murray Blackie
Monitering -- an integral part of manure management

Eye On Europe
Centralized manure marketing comes to Germany

Male-dominated litters bad for breeding

The world's most modern slaughterhouse

Sweden develops hog pens with moving floors to remove manure

Disposable piglet mats mean more hygiene

More plastic wanted in hog pen construction

U.K. pig producers take steps to grapple with PMWS
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