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Weighing up pork production priorities

Addressing pork producers in Western Australia at WAPPA’s annual Pig Day Out, Pork CRC CEO Roger Campbell said increasing carcase weight was perhaps the greatest opportunity for productivity improvement for Australian pork producers, albeit at a time when many were struggling as prices declined due to apparent over supply. (more…)

April 30, 2018

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Australasian pork research proposals on the move

Proposals covering resilience in antimicrobial reduction and resistance and the role of the microbiome in pig performance and health were highlights of the 33 considered in the first investment round for Australasian Pork Research Institute Limited (APRIL). (more…)

April 5, 2018

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What bugs live in a cow’s gut and how do they make methane?

A global scientific project led by New Zealand researchers, which has generated a reference set of genome sequences of microbes found in the stomachs of sheep and cattle, has been published in the respected international scientific journal Nature Biotechnology. (more…)

March 20, 2018

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Similar targets, different solutions separate the sheep from the goats

Sheep and goats share a number of similar genetic targets involved in domestication but exhibit different patterns of selection to achieve similar characteristics, according to a genomic analysis of their wild relatives, published online in Nature Communications. (more…)

March 7, 2018

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Weighing up pork production priorities

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What bugs live in a cow’s gut and how do they make methane?

Similar targets, different solutions separate the sheep from the goats

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