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  • ASF update, APL Producer Forum 2020

    APL ran its inaugural Producer Forum online on November 19. The Forum included a range of speakers from APL and industry updating on current plans and looking to the future. The videos of presentations from the day will be available in December. In …

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  • Australasian Pig Science Association (APSA)

    The Australasian Pig Science Association is pleased to announce that the 18th Biennial APSA Conference will be held from 15-18 November 2021. For more information visit https://www.apsa.asn.au/ or contact apsa@yrd.com.au.

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  • Foodbank serving up Aussie pork to those in need

    AMID the social and economic disruptions caused by COVID-19 in recent months, Australia’s pork industry has been working with the country’s leading food relief organisation, Foodbank Australia, to support Australians struggling to put food on the table. In a collaboration involving the Federal Government and …

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  • Next on the Menu: Melissa Clark-Reynolds

    Quotes from a movie, lines from a song, snippets of a conversation you have with those around you… There’s something about a soundbite that, if it captures you initially, stays with you forever or at the least, a very long time. We’ve been …

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Guidelines for Fostering

The “Guidelines for Fostering Getting the ‘One per centers’ right” is now available from APL. The guidelines cover piglet and sow requirements, the importance of colostrum, and explain fostering and how to go about it, to ensure that producers and stockpeople are able to optimise production and welfare through their farrowing house management practices.

For a hard copy of APL’s “Guidelines for Fostering Getting the ‘One per centers’ right” please contact Rachael Bryant on (02) 6270 8823 or rachael.bryant@australianpork.com.au with your mailing details.

Guidelines for Fostering Getting the ‘One per centers’ right