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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

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Assessment of Treatment Technologies and Strategies to Mitigate GHG Emissions

80 Pages
1 Jun 2012
Author(s): Caoilinn Murphy

Almost all of the direct emissions from pig farming arise from the manure management system (MMS) at the farm. Pork producers can select from several different types of MMS for their farm, and this choice provides the scope to influence the amount of gaseous losses to the atmosphere. This project conducted a comprehensive analysis on MMS applicable to the pig industry that have the possibility of minimising GHG emissions from pork production. This study showed that the pork industry has many opportunities for reducing GHG emissions, whilst also increasing the turnover for individual farmers.

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