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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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Dietary Lysine Requirements and Feeding Regimes for Finisher Pigs

53 Pages

Author(s): Karen Moore

This project aimed to validate the optimum lysine requirement of the grower finisher pig as well as to investigate the effect of blend feeding or feeding a single diet compared to phase feeding throughout the grower finisher phase on growth performance, carcase quality and economic viability.

The results showed that the optimal lysine requirement for male and female pigs between 60 and 103kg LW based on ADG, FCR, carcase gain and profitability was estimated to be 0.61 to 0.64gm available Lysine/ MJ DE. In addition the results found that there was no cost benefit to feeding the single diet which is in contrast to previous findings where a single diet reduced diet cost by $3 per pig.

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