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  • Biogas Code of Practice Consultation Workshops

    APL has developed a risk based Code of Practice for On-farm Biogas Production and Use (Piggeries) in response to growing interest in Biogas technology from Australian pig producers.  APL, through a previous project identified that there was a lot of …

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  • 2015-2020 Strategic Plan Consultation

    The APL 2015–2020 Strategic Plan consultation process continues with all meetings across the country now completed. To all of those producers who attended meetings, APL thanks you for your contributions so far. APL would like to offer all producers that have …

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  • Corrective Statement

    Australian Pork Limited (APL) issued Media Releases on 11 April and 19 December 2012 concerning the progress of the Australian pork industry’s initiative to move away from the use of sow stalls by 2017. APL made statements in those Releases …

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  • Notice of AGM and Annual Conference

    The APL Annual Conference and Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held at the Marriott Hotel, cnr Exhibition and Lonsdale Streets, Melbourne on Thursday 21 November 2012. The Annual Conference will commence at 9.00am and the AGM will commence at 1.00pm. For …

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Complete Research Reports

Nutrition, health & physiology (SG3)

Nutritional Strategies to Minimise the Influence of Bedding Material Consumption on Growth Efficiency

Prof Robert van Barneveld

Lysine Requirement of PrimeGro Females and Improvac Vaccinated Males between 60 and 100 kg liveweight

Dr Cherie Collins

Review of Innate Immunity in Pigs

Dr John Black, Prof John Pluske

Lysine titration in finisher pigs - commercial validation

Prof Robert van Barneveld, Robert Hewitt, James Arthur, Steve Peucker

Effect of Dietary Cinnamon on Growth Performance and Adiposity in Pigs

Prof Frank Dunshea, E Bittner, Alex Hung

Review of Innate Immunity in Pigs

Prof John Pluske

Nutritional Strategies to Minimise the Influence of Bedding Material Consumption on Growth Efficiency

Prof Robert van Barneveld

Review of Growth Promotion Technologies

Prof Frank Dunshea

R&D Priorities: Nutrition, Health and Physiology

Travel Award - Dr Jae Kim to Attend 11th International Symposium on Digestive Physiology of Pigs 2009 - Spain

Dr Jae Kim

The Effect of Chilled Drinking Water on the Growth Rate and Feed Efficiency of Grower Pigs

Sara Willis

Mixing Sows: How to Maximise Welfare Manual

Dr Ray King

Doug Ross Overseas Travel and Study Award

Fiona Kelk

Lysine Requirement Titration in Female Finisher Pigs from 60 to 105 kg Liveweight

A. C Edwards

Manipulating Incretin Secretion From The Gastrointestinal Tract To Regulate Feed Intake In Pigs

Ass Prof Brian Leury

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

Ass Prof Brian Leury

Dietary Requirements and Feeding Regimes for Finisher Pigs

Karen Moore

Dietary Lysine Requirements and Feeding Regimes for Finisher Pigs

Karen Moore

Reducing Variation in Finisher Performance- Early (<35 kg) Intervention

Robert Hewitt

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

David Lines

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

Dr Jae Kim

Factors that Impact on the Expression of Respiratory Disease in Pigs

Dr Alison Collins

Reducing variation in growth performance through pST interventions at weaning

Robert Hewitt, Prof Robert van Barneveld

Management of Strategies to Reduce Feed Intake and Backfat in Pigs Receiving Improvac

Karen Moore

Effect of L-Glutamine in Late Gestation Sow Diets on Survivability and Growth of Piglets

Dr Rebecca Athorn

Survey of the methyl donor status and the effectiveness of dietary methyl donor supplement in Australian pigs

Jeremy Cottrell, Prof Frank Dunshea, Ass Prof Brian Leury , Dr Kristy DiGiacomo

Providing chilled drinking water to lactating sows using a modified milk vat

Gary Collman, Sara Willis

The effect of chilled drinking water on the growth rate and feed efficiency of grower pigs

Sara Willis, Gary Collman

To investigate the practicalities and regulatory requirements of utilising food waste as a feed source for pigs

Joe Lane, Seamus Hoban

Dietary manipulation of feed intake in pigs by bitter compounds

Ass Prof Eugeni Roura, Dr Marta Navarro

Development of a protocol for the use of feeding conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) in lactating gilts

Dr Jessica Craig, Dr David Cadogan

Effect of maternal supplementation with creatine and caffeine prior to farrowing on piglet growth and survival: a commercial study

Dr William van Wettere

The supplementation of pig diets with mineral strontium

Jeff Downing

Optimising the progeny of first-litter sows in the Australian herd

Udani Wijesiriwardana, Prof John Pluske, Prof Frank Dunshea, Jeremy Cottrell, Dr Jessica Craig, Dr Cherie Collins, Robert Hewitt

Amino acid balance and appetition in weaners

Maximiliano Muller, Ass Prof Eugeni Roura