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China’s IPVS Congress with four major themes


New smart farming innovations showcased


Better sow performance with the right minerals


Improving biosecurity and pig flow management


EU copper reduction plans refined


20 COVER STORY


It’s not only commercial parties that are making Vietnam’s swine industry boom. Ho Chi Minh City is as well – investing in an entire integration the size of 11,000 sows. Pig Progress took a look at a project that was set up in 2016.


12 INTERVIEW


In terms of organisation, the Danish pig breeding sector is reinventing itself. Thomas Muurmann Henrik- sen is the CEO of DanBred. He says, “We simply don’t have another choice. We have to reorganise ourselves.”


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NUTRITION


For newborn pigs there are often a host of different challenges – think of crushing or contamination of the farrowing pen. For the last problem, solutions exist. A dietary approach can help to relieve pathogenic pres- sure through sow manure.


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