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A week full of swine webinars


New columnist: Dr Francesc Molist, writing on the stomach function


Interview: China is urgent and important to Topigs Norsvin


Controlling piglets’ microbial environment Canola meal in pig diets


costs are the largest 37 COVER STORY


Feed costs are the largest costs on a pig farm, which is why feed additives are a welcome method of doing more with less feed. Is it possible to economically quantify the effect of feed additives on a farm?


24 FARM VISIT


A modular barn with many welfare aspects – that, in short, is the concept of “Het Familievarken” (The Family Pig). Built on the premises of pig farmer Ivo Bekkers, in Venhorst, the Netherlands, the farm has a special feature: pig toilets.


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REVIEW


While international meetings in the pig industry in the rest of the world came to a halt, China had most livestock shows re- sume in September and October. Some even had record exhibitor and visitor numbers.


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