Research conducted by the Research and Development Institute for the Agri-Environment has shown biological filtration to be an effective option for removing various contaminants from the air of swine barns.
Research conducted by the Prairie Swine Centre has shown including spray dried animal plasma in the diets of newly weaned piglets to be an effective strategy for mitigating the negative effects of DON contaminated feed grains.
Research conducted by Gowan’s feed Consulting is shedding new light on the nutritional value of oil extracted corn dried distillers grains with solubles.
Research conducted by the Prairie Swine Centre suggests using rubber mats could benefit producers that are moving to group housing systems for sows.
A first of its kind Professorship in Agriculture Risk Management and Insurance at the University of Manitoba will focus on the creation of insurance based solutions to address some of the challenges being faced by Canadian farmers.
The Canadian Swine Health Board reports a program under which Post Doctoral Fellows were placed within swine health research institutions across Canada to help address a shortage of swine health researchers has been highly successful.
Research conducted at the Prairie Swine Centre suggests the use of rubber mats in group sow housing systems improves comfort and stimulates increased exercise.
Manitoba’s largest poultry processor has struck a new cooperative relationship with the Red River College’s Paterson GlobalFoods Institute and together they promise to find new meal options and markets for chicken and turkey.
Research conducted by the Prairie Swine Centre suggests the temperament of the sow can be used to identify those sows best suited to particular housing systems.
Swine Innovation Porc says, with many of the research initiatives it has supported over the past three years now coming close to completion, its focus will shift to getting the results of that research out to pork producers.
