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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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Distinguished Visitors Award - An Afternoon with Flemming Thorup

3 Pages
1 Nov 0010
Author(s): Trish Holyoake

High rates of pre-weaning mortality (>12%) are still commonplace in the Australian pork industry. This is an important issue impacting farm productivity and profitability, and a serious welfare issue. The average pig litter size in Denmark is 14.8 pigs born alive per litter. This poses challenges to pig farmers to minimise pre-weaning deaths. This session provided Australian pig producer’s access to well-known researcher Flemming Thorup (Pig Research Centre, Copenhagen) who presented “Achieving a high litter size and high piglet survival”. The day was successful as 40 people representing approximately 25,000 sows and their progeny attended and received useful information.

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