R&D Snapshots

Improvements to effluent testing

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Pork water balance model – Watbal

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Producer involvement welcomed in the Australian Pork Industry Benchmarking Program

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The environmental impact of the pork industry over time

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Fatty acid content in sow diets reduces stillborn rates but not litter sex bias

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Bitter compounds in diet improve growth efficiency of finisher pigs

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Genetics affects victims of tail biting

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National Environmental Guidelines for Indoor Piggeries (NEGIP)

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Understanding energy in pork production

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Mineral strontium supplementation improves weaner performance

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Development of technical material to integrate into the proposed Animal Effluent Management Methodology Determination

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Planning Requirements for indoor and outdoor piggeries: explainer videos

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Rotational Outdoor Piggeries: videos and fact sheets

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Novel photoperiod regimes did not make post-weaning feed intakes ‘shine’

 

 

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Pre-farrowing maternal supplementation of caffeine or creatine can improve piglet survival and performance

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Human food waste – a potential source of pig feed?

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Industry returns on investment from APL R&D – Gilt Enhancement and Physi-Trace

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APIQ✓^® transitions to third party auditing

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Pork industry involvement at On-Plant Veterinarian training workshops

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Effects of dietary methyl donor supplements in pigs

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Environmental enrichment can benefit young pigs

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Management of sow body condition during gestation and lactation

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Does feed intake of gilts affect progeny performance?

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Alternate risk-based inspection procedures for pork

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Gap analysis of technical and regulatory requirements for export of Australian pork into China

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Waste to profit: repurposing waste products from animal industries

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Reducing greenhouse gas potential of Australian soils with livestock manure

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Low levels of lauric acid can reduce feed intake whilst maintaining growth in finisher pigs

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Australia is leading the world in pig welfare benchmarking

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Producers’ Guide to Pig Production and Nutrition – NOW AVAILABLE!

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NAMMP – Pork Greenhouse Gas Mitigation

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Faster genetic gain using genomic selection

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Advancing Livestock Waste as Low Emission – High Efficiency Fertilisers

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An Australian Livestock Industry Framework to showcase and underpin Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) activities

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Animal health feedback to producers

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Strategies to improve gilt progeny performance

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Feeding creatine to sows in late gestation increased piglet weight gain through to weaning

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Feeding caffeine to sows in late gestation increased total born alive and gestation length and decreased stillbirths

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National Agricultural Manure Management Program (NAMMP) Overview – Part 2

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National Agricultural Manure Management Program (NAMMP) Overview – Part 1

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Can feeding lupins or mineral salts decrease backfat in immunocastrated male pigs?

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Investigating the proportion of gilt progeny which enter the breeding herd

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Reverse zoonoses affecting pigs, and the risk to Australian pig production. A critical review to direct risk assessment and management recommendations

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Key differences underlying top and bottom reproductive performers: analysis of management programme data

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Effect of Feed Wastage on Piggery Manure Characteristics and Methane Potential

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Effect of L-Glutamine in late gestation sow diets on survivability and growth of piglets

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Tracking Nutrients and Soil Health Indicators in Outdoor Piggery Paddocks

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Redevelop ProHand

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Reducing variation in growth performance through pST interventions at weaning

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Ecoshelter Bedding Workshops

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Commercially-viable strategies to reduce the acute pain of tail docking in piglets

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Adoption and Awareness survey

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Factors that impact on the expression of respiratory disease in pigs

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National PigGas Extensions

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Development of nutritional strategies to attenuate the impact of poor environments through down-regulation of eicosanoid mediators

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Assessment and amelioration of pain for improved welfare during routine husbandry procedures in piglets

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Split suckling to improve colostrum ingestion, survival and performance of gilt progeny

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Emissions Reduction Fund

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2015 Ron Pollard Undergraduate Scholarship Memorial Award

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Seasonal Infertility Manual

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Best Management Practice (BMP) Booklets- Odour, Energy Use, SEP’s, Rotational Outdoor Piggeries, Nutrients and New Pond Design 2015

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Benchmarking microbiological and processing performance of Australian export establishments

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Reducing variation in finisher performance – early (<35 kg) intervention

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Piggery Manure and Effluent Management and Reuse Guidelines and Glovebox Guide 2015

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Eating Quality Experience Study

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Nutrient Balance Calculators

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Upgrade and Development of Environmental Management Plans (EMP’s) for Conventional and Outdoor Production Systems

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Influence of birth litter size and suckled litter size on gilt ovarian development

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PhysiTrace Retailer Standard Compliance and Logistics and Implementation Plan

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Code of Practice for On-Farm Biogas Production and Use at Piggeries

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Establishing the Risk of Toxoplasmosis Associated with the Consumption of Pork and Pork Products

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Final Report

 

Tracking Nutrients in Outdoor Piggery Systems

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Final Report

 

Doug Ross Overseas Travel and Study Award

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Dietary Requirements and Feeding Regimes for Finisher Pigs

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Gas Safety Management Plan Template

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Manipulating Incretin Secretion from the Gastrointestinal Tract to Regulate Feed Intake in Pigs

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Establishing Energy Usage on Australian Piggeries to Enable Implementation of Energy Reduction Strategies

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The epidemiology of African Swine Fever (ASF) Virus and its Potential for Introduction into Australia

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Post Graduate Research Scholarship – Exotic Disease Prioritisation

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2014–15 Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) Real-Time Training Program

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Pork Processor Referral Group (PRRG)

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The Epidemiology of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea Virus (PEDv) and its Potential for Introduction into Australia

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Assessment of Pain Induced by Tail Docking in Piglets and Strategies to Reduce this Pain

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Development of Practical Measures to Benchmark Pig Welfare in the Australian Pork Industry

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APL Biosecurity Strategic Review Panel

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APIQ Witness Audit 2013–14

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Specific Carbohydrate Formulation in Late Lactation Diets for Primiparous Sows to Enhance Early Antral Follicle Development, Oocyte Quality and Post-Weaning Fertility

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Final Report

 

Measuring Effectiveness of APL Capability Building Activities

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Exotic Disease Prioritisation and Investigation

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Dr Morgan Morrow Travel Award

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Pig Production Education Resources

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Further information

 

QLD Sedimentation and Evaporation Pond System (SEP’s) Trial

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Final Report

 

Demonstrating the Utilisation of Spent Eco-Shelter Bedding in Broadacre Cropping Systems

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Final Report

 

Mixing Sows – How to Maximise Welfare

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Manual

 

Strategies for the Early Detection of Sick and Injured Gestating Sows

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Testing the Antibody Response to Pigs to Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) Vaccines

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Validation and Development of PigBal 2 Model

PigBal 2 User Manual

PigBal 2 Model (.xls)

 

2011-2013 Distinguished Visitor Awards

Final Reports:

• Group Housing and Management of Sows
• An Afternoon with Flemming Thorup
• Per Wallgren to present at Aus Pig Veterinarians Conference 2013
• Charlie Arnot to present at AWSC Seminar
• Professor John Deen to present on Reducing Piggery Mortality
• Professor John Deen and Dr John Carr to present at “Survivability – The Key to Success“