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Ever yone i nvol ved i n
the pig industry needs
to be Tal king Pork.
This includes not only
industry leaders but pig
producers, as well as
represent at i ves from
aligned industries.
We all need to promote
pork and explain how it is produced
on a regular basis in a uni ted ef fort
to influence governments, regulatory
bodies and consumers. While it is vital
the pig industry continues to invest in
research and development to modernize
pig production methods, improve feed
efciency and meat quality, as well as
tackle animal welfare and health issues
head on, it cannot forget the importance
of lobbying at all levels.
Making pig farming sexy
At the 2012 annual congress of the
European Pig Producers Club in Vilnius,
Li thuani a, a local pi g farmer, Cl aus
Baltsersen, asked why the industry is
always on the defense.
Baltsersen called for action to make
pig farming sexy again and received an
enthusiastic response from delegates.
Several at tendees said this can onl y
happen if the industry stands together to
promote pig production. Farmers must
open units to show what the pig industry
is already doing to mitigate its impact on
the environment, improve animal welfare
and ght disease.
Agreeing that the pig industry should
be doing more to promote itself, rather
than defending its actions, a delegate
from Germany said: We must tell people
who we are and what we are and take the
initiative in the debate about the future.
The pig industry must take action now
and put its case forward to the people who
matter and tell them what the industry is
doing and what it wants.
Yes, there are several national bodies
and regional organizations already working
to promote the sale of pork and reduce farm
odors, but what we really need is for all our
organizations to join into one big global
campaign. This includes representatives
from aligned industries to take up the cudgels
for the pig industry and make pig farming
sexy again, attract new blood and take our
rightful position in the agricultural world as it
strives to feed the growing population.
Producing more
with less
The new Pig and
t he Envi r onment
repor t launched at
the 2012 World Meat
Congress in Paris in
June includes 16 pig-
producing countries
and illustrates some
of the ways they are
addressing the challenge of producing
more with less, as well as measures to
reduce the impact on the environment.
China, the United States, Denmark,
Brazil, the United Kingdom, Russia and
Australia collectivel y account for 78
percent of the worlds pork production.
As Paddy Moore, chairman of the
International Meat Secretariat (IMS)
sustainable meat committee, says in the
introduction of the rst report: There
are different approaches to Life Cycle
Assessment and there are di f ferent
approaches to recognizing the positive
contribution that pig production plays
in using surplus human food that would
otherwise be wasted.
To resol ve these i ssues, IMS i s
planning to work with the FAO along with
governments and NGO representatives to
benchmark and monitor the environmental
performance of livestock food chains.
Thi s repor t i l l ustrates some of the
ways that countries are addressing the
challenges.
The report also points out that the
nature of pork production and processing
is changing. The scale of production has
increased as pig producers seek greater
efciency.
In North and South America and parts
of Asia this has been driven by increased
vertical integration and organization in the
supply chain. In Europe there is greater
specialization and cooperation among
producers, while in Russia and China
restructuring and modernization is being
driven by government policy.
This ambitious initiative shows what
the pig industry can do if it is prepared to
stand up and work with others to promote
its positive contribution to global well-
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Denmark developing
mobile hospital for sick
sows
A mobile pen under development in Denmark
could help solve the problem of where to put a
sow that needs to be segregated for special at-
tention. The pen acts both as an ambulance to
move sick or injured sows if they cannot walk
comfortably and as a temporary isolation area
in which they can stay while they recover.
Denmarks animal welfare rules require
that every herd has hospital-pen accommoda-
tion equivalent to at least 2.5 percent of the
total number of places on the site for sows in
group gestation. A minimum of one hospital
pen must always be ready for immediate use.
Other stipulations state that the foor must have
either a rubber mat or straw bedding so it is soft
for at least two-thirds of its area. Hospital pens
for sows and gilts can hold up to three animals
at a time, but always with the appropriate facili-
ties for climate and for feeding and watering.
As a member of the European Union,
Denmark also has adopted the EU regulation
banning the use of individual stalls to house
sows in pregnancy. Any conversion of former
stall housing into gestation in groups raises
questions of how many places can be ftted
into an existing building, even before trying to
fnd some space for hospital pens. The Danish
designers of the mobile pen see their idea as
a stand-by facility to be the hospital quarters
for a single sow. This allows the producer to
satisfy the local welfare law on pen provision
without needing the allocation of foor area
inside a permanent structure.
But the design team of veterinarian Peter
Hgedal with pig equipment specialists Peter
Kaspersen and Jrn Kirkegaard realized
there was another common diffculty if sows
needed to be moved due to illness or injury:
the sow could be unable to walk and would,
therefore, require some form of assistance.
Their proposal is a platform that folds so
it can be moved by pallet truck into a position
next to the sick sow. She then either walks
on board or is rolled on if necessary. Once
secured, she is carried out of the house to
a position where the platform can begin its
transformation into a temporary pen. In its un-
folded form the platform changes from a cart
only 60 cm wide into a foor measuring 1.9 m
x 1.9 m. Raised about 8 cm above the surface
on which it rests, this foor is composed of a
perforated rubber pad that supplies a soft bed
as well as drainage.
Surrounding both the bottom of the hospital
pen and one side is a steel frame. Plastic panels
are slotted in to be the walls on two sides, but
the plan proposed by the designers would see
the other two sides contributed by the corner
of the building in which the pen is placed.
Alternatively, there could be a gate across one
end. A third wall of plastic panels would be a
further option in non-corner positions. A feed
trough and a watering nipple are fxed perma-
nently to the frame, and the only further connec-
tion required is to the water supply.
The frst prototype of the mobile pen has
Folding the oor creates a cart that can
be moved by a pallet truck and the sow is
either walked on to the cart or lifted on.
The cart is taken from the gestation
house to a location where it can be
transformed into a hospital pen.
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been under testing for the past six months at the
Mesing unit of producer Ole Larsen. Although
few sows are so lame that they cannot walk, the
facility has already proved useful as the extra
hospital pen which can be assembled in seconds
when needed. The design works well in princi-
ple, say the Danish team members, so the next
step will be to produce it commercially for sale
to herds wanting a place for their sick sows.
EU pig producers hear
latest on breeding,
emissions
The global pig market is likely to face signif-
cant challenges through 2012 and into 2013
as sow numbers fall in the face of tough new
environmental and animal welfare regulations
in the EU and consumers switch to cheaper
foods due to the diffcult fnancial times,
according to speakers at the European Pig
Producers Congress on May 31.
British Pig Executive director Mick Sloyan,
who presented on the second day of the Vilnius,
Lithuania-held event, said that the current Euro
currency crisis is having a direct impact on the
import/export trade, but he is optimistic the in-
dustry will weather the current turmoil and that
committed producers will come out stronger in
the long run as demand grows again and pushes
up prices. Exports from the EU are likely to
continue to grow, with Russia remaining a major
market and strong growth in sales to China and
Japan, as well as Korea, he said. China could
be the most signifcant factor, especially because
it provided a market for the bits of pig we dont
normally eat in the West.
Other papers delivered at the confer-
ence included one by Dr. Bjarne Holm, of
the Norwegian genetics company Norsvin,
who called for more attention to be paid to
improving pigs feed effciency through the
maternal line, as well as the sire line. As
the maternal lines make up 50 percent of the
commercial slaughter pig genetic programs
must start delivering improved feed effciency
to a higher extent than at present, said Holm.
His company is currently working on research
involving CT scans and video analysis to help
it improve the robustness and meat quality of
female pigs, as well as their feed-to-growth
effciency. Companies need to invest in R&D
to be able to stay in the game, with maternal
breeding goals bringing it all together for fu-
ture success, he said.
Dr. Nico Ogink, an expert on low-
emission housing systems at Wageningen
University in the Netherlands, spoke about the
need for a new generation of air scrubbers in
intensive pig production units to help remove
odors, ammonia and nitrogen. He also called
for drastic improvement of on-farm verifca-
tion schemes to help regain public confdence
in farmers efforts to clean up waste air and
reduce emissions. He said improved systems
will not only help pig producers become bet-
ter neighbors, they will also lead to improved
performance and better conditions.
The 2013 European Pig Producers
Congress was held in Vingsted, Denmark,
from May 29 to June 1.

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Fundamental changes are shaping
global pig production. Global pork
production in 2011 dropped to 109
million metric tons of pig meat
produced, according to the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations (FAO). Pig meat production
is down from the same agencys
preliminary gure of 110.2 million
metric tons; it is also considerably
below the 109.9 million metric tons
of pork the FAO reported in 2010.
Producing less pork
An annual downturn in the total
world volume would be unusual it
has happened only once before in
the past 11 years although the
percentage rate of expansion achieved
during each decade has been declining
since 1960. As Chart 1 illustrates, the
decrease in 2011 also narrowed the
gap between pork and poultry meat
for global tonnage, while both still
maintain a faster growth rate than beef.
Asia-Pacic remains the largest
region of the world for yearly pork
production. In round terms, it
supplied 57 percent of all output in
2011. By comparison, its share was
more than double that from Europe,
which provided twice the amount
Global pig production: Trends
shaping the pork industry
Data from the largest pig-producing countries show
changes in herd size as a restructuring takes place.
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FAO analysts are predicting global
pork production will rebound in
2012 to a new record of 111.7 million
metric tons, an increase from 2011 by
around 2.6 percent.
Rank 2010 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
1: China 1 41406 42982 44358 45186 47016 50106 48700 42878 46205 48905 51070 49500
2: USA 2 8597 8691 8929 9056 9312 9392 9559 9962 10599 10442 10186 10332
3: Germany 3 3982 4074 4110 4239 4308 4500 4662 4985 5114 5241 5443 5598
4: Spain 4 2912 2993 3070 3190 3076 3168 3235 3439 3484 3291 3369 3479
5: Brazil 5 2556 2730 2872 2560 2621 2710 2830 2990 3015 3130 3195 3227
6: France 8 2318 2315 2350 2333 2311 2274 2263 2281 2277 2004 2010 1998
7: Russia 7 1341 1287 1367 1481 1433 1334 1444 1640 1736 1844 1920 1995
8: Vietnam 6 990 1069 1209 1257 1408 1602 1713 1832 1850 1910 1930 1960
9: Poland 10 1892 1820 1981 2094 1923 1926 2071 2091 1888 1608 1741 1811
10: Canada 9 1640 1731 1854 1882 1936 1920 1898 1894 1786 1789 1772 1770
11: Denmark 11 1624 1714 1759 1762 1809 1793 1749 1802 1707 1583 1666 1718
12: Italy 12 1488 1510 1536 1589 1590 1515 1556 1603 1606 1588 1633 1570
13: Netherlands 14 1623 1433 1377 1253 1287 1297 1265 1290 1318 1275 1288 1347
14: Japan 13 1256 1232 1246 1260 1272 1245 1247 1251 1249 1310 1292 1267
15: Philippines 15 1008 1064 1332 1346 1376 1320 1371 1245 1190 1240 1255 1260
16: Mexico 16 1030 1058 1070 1035 1150 1195 1108 1152 1161 1162 1165 1182
17: Belgium 17 1055 1072 1044 1029 1032 1013 1006 1063 1056 1082 1124 1108
18: Taiwan 18 921 962 935 893 898 911 930 913 862 857 845 840
19: Korea Rep. 19 916 928 1005 1149 1105 1050 1091 1133 1056 1062 1110 837
20: UK 20 923 781 795 715 720 706 697 739 740 720 774 806
TABLE 1: Trends in annual pork production (x 1000 tons) for the 20 countries ranked largest for annual volume in 2011
The above 20 countries accounted for 86 percent of global pork production in 2011.
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produced in North America, and this
in turn was approximately double
the quantity from Latin America.
But the 2011 world production
estimate for pig meat should also
be seen in the context of the major
national producers. Table 1 shows
the amounts recorded as having been
produced in the 20 countries with
the biggest annual tonnages. These
countries accounted for 86 percent
of the global pork total in 2011.
Table 1 data suggests that several
countries even managed a modest
growth in their own pork output.
Nonetheless, the combined production
of the Top 20 fell by 1.25 percent,
or around 1 million metric tons.
The gures in Table 1 underline how
the overall result was affected by a drop
in Chinas national pig production. Over
three-quarters of the worlds pig meat
is supplied by China, the United States
and the European Union (EU-27). Our
lineup lists EU members individually.
Together, the full 27-country community
produced nearly 22.4 million metric
tons of pork in 2011, up marginally from
22.01 million metric tons in 2010.
Judging by the three trends
depicted in Chart 2, the EU seems
to have made a recovery from the
feed cost crisis of 2008 and 2009
while the US continued to enjoy the
benets of its increased pork exports.
China, by contrast, experienced a
reduction in 2011 attributed to
the combined effects of low margins
and increased disease problems.
Breeding sow inventory
However, the inventory of breeding
sows in China is considered to have
increased year-on-year by the end of
2011, as shown in Table 2. For the 30
countries listed, total sow numbers
grew from about 84.4 million in
2010 to almost 86 million in 2011.
The danger would be in viewing
this as an expansion, when it was
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Pending loose-housed sow legislation may reduce EU pork output another 5 percent.
To read more about how China
is impacting the global pig
market, see www.WATTAgNet.
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evidently because of the return of the
Chinese national breeding herd to the
size it had reached in 2009 before
disease forced a cutback. Take China
out of the equation and the other 29
countries sow numbers dropped
from 36.9 million to 36.7 million.
A further reduction in sow inventory
is predicted for the more mature
markets worldwide as an adjustment
to new circumstances, not least the
continuing rise in herd productivity.
In the U.S., for example, an
analysis by the FAPRI food policy
unit at the University of Missouri
pointed out that the U.S. sow herd
of 2011 was 20 percent smaller than
20 years ago but output in 2012 is
still expected to be 35 percent more
than in 1992 because of the extra
productivity obtained per sow.
In the European Union, a key
consideration currently is the likely
impact of new legislation demanding
that pregnant sows be loose-housed
instead of being conned in individual
stalls. Most sources expect that
older pig producers or farmers
with small herds will decide to quit
rather than undertake the expense
of rebuilding. Forecasts start at 5
percent for the reduction in EU pork
output that will occur because of
the pending animal welfare law.
Chart 3 demonstrates how the
number of sows in the EU-27 countries
has fallen by 15 percent since 2004.
Pork trade agreements
Legislation and nancial
considerations provide only part of
the explanation for the reshaping
of the global pork industries.
Russias entry into the World Trade
Organization has given an example, by
leading to predictions that local pork
Global pig production
Rank 2010 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
1: China 1 35500 37250 38355 40250 44940 46930 44206 47416 48788 49100 47500 49280
2: USA 2 6267 6201 6058 6009 5969 6011 6116 6233 6062 5850 5778 5803
3: Vietnam 3 2947 3262 3527 3674 3882 3930 4002 4109 4150 4220 4390 4463
4: Brazil 5 3020 3025 3000 3005 3020 3030 3040 2970 2960 2890 2925 2900
5: Spain 6 2441 2594 2616 2580 2606 2593 2689 2663 2542 2440 2408 2404
6: Russia 4 2120 2200 2250 2149 1900 2000 2104 2124 2060 2130 2150 2225
7: Germany 7 2526 2523 2535 2564 2467 2504 2467 2418 2296 2236 2233 2194
8: Philippines 8 1920 1950 2000 2170 2150 2140 2170 2203 2195 2178 1940 1871
9: Canada 10 1361 1468 1527 1575 1597 1571 1546 1483 1371 1310 1294 1293
10: Denmark 11 1344 1348 1364 1424 1397 1340 1414 1353 1289 1346 1286 1239
11: Thailand 14 880 850 895 902 1080 1082 1100 1050 840 950 1001 1141
12: Poland 9 1545 1673 1821 1705 1649 1808 1786 1587 1279 1361 1328 1125
13: Netherlands 13 1272 1161 1140 1052 1125 1100 1050 1060 1025 1100 1098 1106
14: France 12 1377 1373 1362 1326 1296 1274 1264 1234 1200 1185 1127 1099
15: Mexico 15 1059 1065 1071 1077 1088 1100 1071 1065 1067 1068 1065 1070
16: Japan 16= 922 916 929 918 910 907 915 910 937 930 902 910
17: Korea Rep. 16= 912 955 955 975 935 966 1012 1004 913 966 920 903
18: Taiwan 18 915 838 795 812 828 838 806 720 688 671 695 704
19: Italy 19 715 698 751 736 725 722 772 754 756 746 717 660
20: Ukraine 20 559 603 633 530 509 560 614 433 440 518 519 530
21: UK 22 653 609 586 573 541 505 524 498 487 481 491 484
22: Belgium 21 715 673 668 618 608 584 578 567 543 531 507 482
23: Romania 24 323 517 579 335 426 494 521 443 376 359 356 381
24: Chile 23 301 300 290 300 310 320 332 355 357 362 355 360
25: Hungary 25 459 462 500 430 391 383 396 352 314 309 301 290
26: Austria 27 324 339 332 326 309 308 313 311 291 288 279 270
27: Australia 28 292 332 356 353 318 329 352 340 263 242 245 245
28: Portugal 26 323 323 316 306 314 315 310 308 303 244 241 236
29: Sweden 30 206 214 208 204 195 192 177 175 168 159 155 152
30: Czech Rep. 29 413 414 489 371 335 338 317 273 212 194 176 142
TABLE 2: Sow breeding inventory trends (x 1000 sows) in 30 countries
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production will struggle to compete
with imports. The ASEAN pact of
Southeast Asia expects a forthcoming
wider Asian accord to benet the pork
industries in Thailand and Myanmar.
According to several expert
observers, the element that is most
inuencing change in the pig industry
prole is the disappearance of backyard
swine farmers in developing nations. In
Canada, the average number of pigs per
farm increased by 31.5 percent between
2006 and 2011, according to Statistics
Canada. The departure of backyard
pig farmers has been particularly
marked in China. Although commercial
pig producers are growing, their
expansion struggles to compensate
for the loss of small-scale herds.
Global pork production
FAO analysts are predicting global
pork production will rebound in
2012 to a new record of 111.7 million
metric tons, an increase from 2011 by
2.6 percent. The main inuence is a
reduced incidence of disease affecting
Asian pig industries, but the agency
has also identied growing policy
support by a number of governments.
Add to that the return of some
countries to the role of pork exporter,
such as Mexico after its recognition of
being free of classical swine fever (hog
cholera). Taiwan is another to watch
as it wins the battle against foot-and-
mouth disease. PIGI
CHART 3: Annual changes in sow numbers for the EU-27 since 2004
Annual changes in sow numbers for the EU-27 since 2004
11,500.00
12,000.00
12,500.00
13,000.00
13,500.00
14,000.00
14,500.00
15,000.00
15,500.00
16,000.00
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
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0
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The EU seems to have made a recovery from the feed cost crisis of 2008-2009, while
the U.S. continued to enjoy the benets of increased pork exports. China experienced
a reduction in 2011 attributed to the combined effects of low margins and disease.
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The Spanish Optimal Pork Production
Group, OPP, developed one of the
most technologically advanced
pig farms in terms of production,
efciency and protability.
The innovative P Plus Farm is
the brainchild of Joan Sanmartin,
the groups manager director, who
said she believes European animal
welfare regulations have opened up an
opportunity to demonstrate that these
requirements are not incompatible
with a pig farms protability.
Next-generation pig farms
The P Plus Farm shows that the most
advanced installations and technologies
as well as new computer software
can improve a pig farms productivity
and protability while simultaneously
taking care of animal welfare. And the
company claims it has reached this
target with a multi-disciplinary team
of 22 experts, which includes vets,
agronomists and expert programmers.
The new P Plus Farm complies
with EU animal welfare regulations,
integrates efcient technologies to
control feeding, climatic parameters
and computerized interconnection,
and uses resources to generate
clean energies to reach the highest
work and health standards.
This is a new generation of farms:
technological, eco-friendly and a
respecter of animal welfare, says
Ricardo Segundo, international manager
at OPP. When asked why OPP was
investing so much time, effort and
money into the project, he explained:
We had the best control of the feeding
in the whole unit. The following step,
it was to develop new software that
synchronizes the whole information.
As far as the costs were concerned,
Ricardo says: If compared against other
systems adapted to animal welfare, the
difference in cost is marginal (between 5
percent and 15 percent more) to produce
healthier and more uniform pigs.
A model pig unit
The rst Granja P Plus pig unit built
by OPP is at Albesa Ramadera, in Lleida,
Spain. With a current population of
3,300 sows, the farm is also used as a
training center and model farm to show
how it meets animal welfare regulations
and uses the latest technology.
Out of a range of possibilities, OPP
partnered with three pig equipment
companies. Schauer supplied the
electronic and wet feed feeding stations
(for farrowing and weaning, respectively),
Skov was tapped for ventilation
requirements and Mik provided
heated oor panels for farrowing.
The main parameter for improving
the protability and efciency of a pig
farm lies in controlling the sow feed
from gestation to farrowing, says an
OPP spokesperson. The aim is for
New pig farm technology
improves protability, productivity
Spanish P Plus Farm project shows how prots
and efciency can be compatible with animal welfare.
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OPPs Farms Mother program
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after analyzing them shows the real
production situation on a pig farm.
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the sow to be fed more efciently before
farrowing to obtain piglets with higher
birth weights to favor the conversion
factors in the fattening stage, the
biggest cost impact in the ratio between
feed intake and daily weight gain.
To control feeding once pregnancy is
conrmed, the Schauer electronic stations
calibrate the rations for the pregnant sows
on a daily basis, controlling their feeding
rigorously according to the pre-established
feeding curves, says an OPP spokesperson. Depending on
the body conditions of each pig, the quantities of feed are
individualized and can be reprogrammed instantly, by the
stockmen, using PDAs. OPP also developed a project called
Inmunopig to demonstrate the importance of birth weight.
Farms Mother software
All this feeding precision and control would make no
sense without a computer program that allows all the data
generated on the pig farm to be interrelated and compared
to make it more efcient and detect possible deviations.
The basic element of the OPP Group project is its
computer program Farms Mother, a platform that
integrates, handles and analyzes data. It is not just another
management program, but a processing, synchronizing
and analyzing data tool that is compatible with the
habitual management programs used by farmers.
After transferring production data to the Farms Mother
program, it computes and analyzes all the variables and
shows the real situation on a pig farm. It processes the
data of the group gestation, the feeding in maternity pens,
environmental conditions, health treatment, birth and
weaning weights, dorsal fat or water consumption.
Gathering all this data from the pig farm provides
information of incalculable value that
can be interrelated and analyzed to
enable more efcient and effective
decisions to be made for the farm.
The program synchronizes all that data
once a day (a process that takes around 20
minutes) and after analyzing it, the Farms
Mother indicates the sows that are less
productive, for example. This includes not
only those in numerical productivity but also
those that have a poor feed conversion. As a
result, farm management is based on more objective criteria
for decision making and the response time is shorter, as the
problems are detected earlier a farmer will know what is
going on in real-time, because the data is always up-to-date.
Not all pig farmers are open to new technologies;
OPP has given priority to three parameters to achieve
successful implantation. Firstly, it must be automatic and
simple to use; secondly, it must control all the variables
involved in pig production; and thirdly it should provide
New pig farm
Depending on a sows body condition, the quantities of feed
are individualized and can be reprogrammed instantly
using PDAs.
The Granja P Plus pig unit currently has 3,300 sows and
is also used as a training center to show how to meet EU
animal welfare regulations and use the latest technology.
To learn more about pig
farming and technology,
see Pig producers should
adopt technology to increase
efciency at www.WATTAgNet.
com/150808.html
More information
The main parameter for
improving the protability
and efciency of a farm
lies in controlling the
sow feed from gestation
to farrowing.
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the farmer with training and support for the system.
Eco-friendly pig farm
Another characteristic feature of the Granja P Plus
pig unit is that it is eco-friendly because of the savings
from efcient technologies and the use of alternative
energies. The Skov ventilation systems are believed to save
75 percent of energy consumption and the Mik heating
panels can reduce heat consumption by 25 percent.
In the specic case of the rst Granja P Plus pig unit, all
this will be combined with the installation of solar panels
on the farm roof during the summer in 2012. These are
expected to produce 713,040 kWh per year and will avoid
the emission of around 273,094 kg of CO
2
per year. The
farm has been designed to use more natural light instead of
articial lighting. Efcient insulation of the walls and roof
also contributes to making it more efcient and protable.
A campaign to internationalize OPP Group, S.L. and the
Granja Plus P project is now underway. Brazil is now the most
immediate project, with a Granja Plus P being developed
there as a training center with the participation of the past
president of the Brazilian Association of Pig Producers,
Rubens Valentini (Miuna farm). After Brazil, OPP hopes to
begin new projects in Mexico, Italy, Venezuela or Argentina.
The innovative Albesa Ramadera farm in Spain has already
received more than 450 visits from interested pig industry leaders
from Italy, Portugal, France, Russia, Argentina, Ukraine, the U.S.,
Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, Chile and Mexico. The path is
open; it only remains for us to back this new generation that has
led, in Spain, to students on the Master of Pig Production at the
University of Lleida waiting impatiently for their turn to work on
the Granja P Plus at Albesa Ramadera, says Ricardo. PIGI

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Montse Palau is an experienced Spanish freelance agricultural journalist.
The Albesa Ramadera pig farm in Spain is a new generation
of operations: technological, eco-friendly and a respecter of
animal welfare.
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A number of international pig breeding
companies are moving away from
pure genetics to become high-tech,
customer-focused and scientically
based to retain business, as well as win
new customers. Pig breeding companies
in Ireland, Denmark and Britain, which
all have clients spread around the world,
are moving this way as they incorporate
the latest in science and computer
software to gear up in the face of stiff
competition and catch up with the
new remote world of virtual reality.
High-tech pig breeder Stephen
Waite, head of science at JSR Genetics
in the UK, told Pig International: We
cannot just be a genetics company
anymore; we have to develop on all
fronts to ensure we stay ahead in the
coming revolution in the pig industry
over the next ve to 10 years.
We aim to work with our
customers, using modern high-tech
equipment and computer software
to help them tailor their products to
grow their business, says Waite. By
using the latest technology, we can
even help them record and monitor
the daily performance of their pigs
and keep a close watch on their
feeding regimes via the Internet.
This sort of change is becoming
important today as an increasing
number of companies and
organizations make use of new
software technology to conduct online
live conferences, demonstrations
and question-and-answer sessions.
Cyberspace is humming with the
increasing number of online webinars
as more people go online.
We can keep
a close eye on
our customers
pigs performance
from here and call
them if we spot a
problem and help
them to adjust
their systems,
feeding procedures,
or heating, as
necessary, says
Waite. However,
we do like to keep up personal face-to-
face contacts between their staff and
our team of experts, so that they get
to know everybody here. Then there
is always somebody available to help
them when they need assistance. So
there is still some travel involved.
The better they can do, the
better it is for us as it provides
us with a very useful database
that we can use to develop more
innovations, he explained.
Breeding protable pigs
JSR Genetics recently
launched its new faster
nishing JSR Geneconverter
800m boar, and is currently
working with the Roslin
Institute to identify the feed
efciency gene in pigs to
start feeding efcient pigs at
the earliest opportunity. They
are using blood tests from thousands
of JSR pigs to genome sequence and
create individual DNA maps of each one.
We also are recording the feed
conversion rate of each animal, using
Feed Intake Recording Equipment
feeders. By examining their
corresponding DNA proles we hope
to identify those genes responsible
for feed efciency, says Waite.
His company is also testing new
image analysis software to help pig
producers analyze ultrasound scans
from live animals to determine intra-
muscular fat levels to increase loin
marbling and enhance avoring. This
could become part of the package to
help customers nd new markets.
And this is vital, in the view of JSR
meat scientist Caroline Mitchell, who
said that in addition to genetics, cost
efciency and management, the quality,
avor, texture and color of the nal
Breeding a more protable pig
Scientic advances, new technology and producer
demands are shaping pig breeding research.
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It's important that
the inputs the stock
requires are fully
understood.
Breeders are
researching pig DNA to
start feeding efciently at
the earliest opportunity.
Stephen Waite, head of science, and
Caroline Mitchell, meat scientist at
JSR, monitor pig units via the Internet
for optimal feeding.
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product the meat plays a vital
role in any pig production business. I
can add value across all supply chains
by analyzing the end product and then
working backwards and modifying
production systems, feeding and
transport to attain consistency and
quality pork. A product consumers
want to buy, says Mitchell.
She heads up the companys Food
Quality Centre, where she established
a consumer tasting panel of 12 to16
people who have been trained and
selected for their ability to assess
avors, scents, textures and colors in
meat, as well as drip loss and pH levels.
We can use this facility to help our
customers produce more palatable pork,
with particular qualities to suit their
markets, or to develop new products
for niche markets, says Mitchell,
who works with customers in Russia,
Korea and Spain to help them improve
their products, obtain consistency
and streamline supply chains.
Global pig production
Denmarks DanBred International
changed from a farmer cooperative to
a private limited company in February
2011, and has become a full-service
provider of customized and tailored
genetic solutions and pig production
extension services with the focus
on knowledge and expertise, says
Thomas Muurmann Henriksen, chief
executive. This was necessary to
meet the needs and expectations of
progressive food producers within the
pork segment of the meat industry.
Nicolaj Nrgaard, head of
the Danish Pig Research Centre,
which provides technical services
to DanBred International, pointed
out that there are different service
levels at different prices and its
important that pig farmers agree on
the service level before buying.
It is different from country
to country and its up to breeding
companies to provide what customers
want and expect in their country,
says Nrgaard. In Denmark, for
example, most pig producers want to
buy the best advice they can get and
prefer to be independent. But in other
countries, pig farmers often want more
assistance available in the package
they buy from the breeding company.
We are contracted to DanBred
International; we offer various services
to its pig producers overseas. We
focus on the whole value chain and
we will send an expert out to help
them with any particular issue, if they
pay, of course, says Nrgaard.
Ronan Murphy, business manager
of Irelands Hermitage Genetics,
which recently expanded its technical
team in Russia and has major trade
links with Asia, as well as Europe,
agreed that breeding companies
must offer more than just genetics.
These days, we work more closely
with customers to help them improve
their businesses, says Murphy. Its all
part of the new move towards customer-
focused service and bespoke products.
We denitely spend a lot more time
with our partners to help them improve
their pig business now than before. You
cannot just sell them a pig anymore.
Matthew Curtis, managing
director of ACMC Ltd., which has
interests in Asia and Europe, as well
as the UK, also conrmed the need
for modern forward-looking pig
breeding companies to become more
involved with their customers.
Pig production is a highly
sophisticated and technical business.
As breeding stock has developed, it is
important that inputs the stock requires
are fully understood to achieve optimum
performance, he says. Before making
a decision on a pig breeding stock
purchase, it is important for customers
to have an appreciation of what support
a company can provide in after-sales
services. PIGI
To read more about advances
in pig breeding, see www.
WATTAgNet.com/148801.html
More information
Pig production
has become a highly
sophisticated and
technical business.
Matthew Curtis,
managing director at ACMC
It is different from country
to country and its up to
breeding companies to
provide what customers want
and expect in their country.
Nicolaj Nrgaard
Danish Pig Research Centre
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The shift in emphasis toward
disease prevention across Europe
has pushed the use of disinfectants
and other biosecurity products to
the forefront. It has also raised the
question of which is the best type of
disinfectant to use on a pig farm.
The answer is simple there is
no best one; each product has its
own benets and shortcomings.
Choosing the right disinfectant
When choosing a disinfectant, the
trick is to understand the needs of
the pig farm and the properties of the
disinfectants available. Then nd the
optimum solution for the individual
farms situation. To decide which
disinfectant provides the optimum
solution, there are three questions
which need to be answered:
1. Which type of disease organism
needs to be controlled
bacteria, viruses (enveloped
or non-enveloped), fungi?
2. What has to be disinfected
buildings, equipment, water,
transport, personnel?
3. How can the efciency of footbaths
be improved coping with extremes
in temperature, high organic matter?
Many countries have independent
sources of information to help
pig farmers with their selection.
In Europe, one of the best is
provided by the German Veterinary
Associations website, www.dvg.
de, where a comparison can be made
across various disease groups.
Table 1 to
Table 6 show the
range of dilutions
approved by the
German Veterinary
Association
for products
of each type of
micro-organism.
It is interesting to note that these
concentrations do not agree with most
of the manufacturers recommended
concentrations. This is probably
connected to each manufacturers desire
to be more cost-effective than their
competitors and the recommendations
are based on the products efcacy
when used in ideal conditions.
Please note that the German
Veterinary Association tests are
conducted at low temperatures and
with a high organic matter loading.
They therefore represent the worst
possible environment in which a
disinfectant can be effective.
Comparing disinfectants
Another problem for pig farmers
is comparing products when they are
all tested under different conditions.
In general, the European tests are
more demanding than the equivalent
American testing procedures. From
our own experience, if the product is
used at the correct concentration,
for example, as recommended by
Pig biosecurity: Preventing disease with disinfectants
Understand the needs
of the pig farm and
the properties of
disinfectants available.
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A footbath is often the front line of
protection against transfer of infection
on entering a unit or between houses.
Jim Bigmore, managing director at
Hysolv Ltd. In a perfect world all
disinfectants would kill all bacteria,
viruses and fungi on all surfaces without
being dangerous to humans, animals,
equipment and vehicles.
Time spent cleaning
surfaces for disinfection
is never wasted.
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an independent organization (such
as the Department for Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs in the UK and
the German Veterinary Association)
we have never seen resistance
build up against a disinfectant.
In a perfect world all disinfectants
would kill all bacteria, viruses and fungi
on all surfaces without being dangerous
to humans, animals, equipment and
vehicles. They would be active at all
temperatures and not be affected by
the presence of organic matter.
You wont be surprised to learn
that this is not the ideal world and
no single disinfectant is suitable for
every use. The regional variations
of climate, farm building materials,
animal genetics and management
means some cannot be used. There is,
however, one thing that all disinfectants
have in common they wont work
if they dont come into contact with
the germs. In other words, success in
disinfection is dependent upon thorough
cleaning. Time spent cleaning surfaces
for disinfection is never wasted.
Keeping surfaces clean
The next question for a pig farmer
is What needs to be disinfected
or sanitized? Choosing the most
appropriate product can be confusing
Pig biosecurity: Preventing disease with disinfectants
Concentrations of disinfectants approved
Range of dilutions for each type
0.5% 1.0% 2.0% 3.0% 4.0%+
Glutaraldehydes + Formaldehyde
Glutaraldehyde
Glutaraldehyde + Quaternary Ammonium salts
Oxidising disinfectants*
Chlorocresol
TABLE 1: Non-enveloped viruses, e.g. Circovirus
*This group includes peroxygen-type products
0.5% 1.0% 2.0% 3.0% 4.0%+
Glutaraldehyde
Chlorocresol
TABLE 2: Enveloped viruses, e.g. Aujeszkys Disease
0.5% 1.0% 2.0% 3.0% 4.0%+
Glutaraldehyde
Chlorocresol
Quaternary Ammonium Salts
TABLE 3: Bacteria, e.g. Salmonella
0.5% 1.0% 2.0% 3.0% 4.0%+
Glutaraldehyde
Chlorocresol
TABLE 4: Fungi, e.g. aspergillus
Even the outside of farm buildings can
become contaminated, especially older
buildings with absorbent cladding.
These types of cleaning products would be effective as general building
disinfectants if used at the dilutions given in Table 5.
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as manufacturers tend to claim that
their products work in all situations. At
best, some disinfectants are suitable
in most applications, providing the
correct concentration is used.
The overriding rule is to clean rst
and then to disinfect. A suitable regime
would involve the following sequence
of events as there are no real shortcuts
to ensure the process will be effective:
Dry-clean remove organic matter
and dirt (mechanically/by hand).
Wet-clean apply a suitable
detergent (alkaline- or acid-
based) to remove the grime
without damaging the object.
Clean down and rinse with water
using suitable pressure washer
equipment as appropriate.
The surfaces can be tested
at this stage for presence of
protein. Re-clean if tests show
the surfaces are still dirty.
Rinse with water.
Dry (if the surfaces are still wet the
dilution of the disinfectant will be
wrong when it comes in contact).
Disinfect preferably dry
surfaces to avoid diluting the
disinfectant (as above).
Rinse when necessary,
or allow to dry.
Remember to check on
recommended application rates and
exposure times. Disinfectants need time
to be in contact with the organisms they
are to kill or destroy if they are to work
effectively. And never underestimate the
importance of a footbath, which is often
the front line of any defense against
disease entry or spread of disease
from house to house within a pig unit.
Footbath biosecurity
However, it presents a unique
disinfection problem. The disinfectant
has to work in an environment
where the temperature may change
from day to day, the organic matter
challenge continually increases and
rain can further dilute the disinfectant
solution. It is, therefore, quite likely
that a pig farms footbath disinfectant
is far from ideal. It may either be
ineffective because of high organic
matter loading, or too dilute because
of rain. Alternatively, it may be too
concentrated and wasting money!
The modern footbath allows
the user to measure the amount of
disinfectant and water to produce
the recommended concentration. It
will have a lid to stop rain diluting the
disinfectant solution and will be simple
to incorporate into the farms standard
operating procedure. It will also allow
footbaths to be auditable by having a
removable label that shows the date of
footbath was lled, type of disinfectant
used, batch number and concentration
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The Asia-Pacic pig industry is feeling
the pressure as Western-style feed
and food standards are impacting
and pushing producers and feed
manufacturers to improve performance.
Despite increasing standards,
there is still much that Asia-Pacic
pig producers and others involved
in the food sector can learn from
what has been happening in highly
developed markets like Europe
where, despite stringent regulations,
food safety is still a major issue.
Feed-related incidents
During the past three years, a
number of entirely preventable feed-
related incidents throughout the world
have highlighted the direct impact
contaminated feed can have on meat
production. Such incidents ultimately
lead to greater intervention by the
regulatory authorities in the form of
increased feed and food safety policies
to regulate, control and implement
regulations to prevent food-borne
diseases such as Salmonellosis,
Shigellosis, Campylobacteriosis,
Listeriosis and Vibrio parahaemolyticus.
Untreated feed is one of the
key ways to introduce Salmonella
and other pathogens onto pig
farms, and subsequently into the
food chain. Clearly a key element
in effective control measures is to
ensure that feed is pathogen-free
up to the point of consumption.
Many feed-related incidents can
easily be prevented by implementing
well-proven technologies, for example,
treating all feed materials and nished
feeds with an effective, approved
biocide to eliminate pathogens.
Feed safety awareness
Although awareness of feed safety
issues by consumers and government
is increasing in the Asia Pacic, there
is a lack of strong policy solutions to
control bacterial zoonotics in primary
production. This is partly because
responsibility for feed and food safety
policy falls to different governmental
bodies in different countries.
In Singapore, for example, the
manufacture, import and sale of food
products are governed by the Sale
of Food Act 2002, while the Food
Regulations 2006 are administered by
the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority
of Singapore, the countrys national
food safety authority. In Taiwan, the
Department of Health is the statutory
body responsible for the management
of food safety and the Thailand FDA is
the principal department of the Ministry
of Public Health in charge of consumer
safety in the consumption of food.
The consequence of relative
insufciency in policy solutions for
controlling bacterial zoonotics in
primary production across Asia Pacic
is that much of the responsibility for
eliminating bacterial contaminants
in meat still rests with consumers
by ensuring that food is thoroughly
cooked. Signicantly, however, this
approach fails to take into account any
cross-contamination issues during
food storage and preparation.
The inevitable result of neglecting
to implement available food safety
technologies to eliminate pathogenic
microorganisms at sites of primary
production will be instances of unsafe
food products being produced. It is
important to stress that food hygiene
and safety can only be assured if all
the precautionary and preventative
measures are taken throughout the entire
production and distribution process.
This extends from the early stage of
proper handling of feed raw materials
and food ingredients throughout
the various stages of production.
European feed, food safety
Europe has been the driving force
behind feed and food safety legislation
Pig feed, food standards
pushing Asia-Pacic swine industry
Salmonella outbreaks highlight how
contaminated feed can affect pork production.
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By Scott Faul
Scott Faul, director Asia Pacic
for Anitox corp Controlling
Salmonella in pigs will require a
legislative and economic push on
feed-manufacturers, pig producers
and meat processors to implement the
increased surveillance and multiple
interventions required.
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for many years, and given the large,
increasing pig populations which now
exist throughout Asia Pacic, including
signicant numbers in China, Korea,
Taiwan and Vietnam, the region can
learn from that regions experiences.
The European Union regulatory
authority, the European Food Standards
Agency (EFSA), already has a rigorous
program to monitor and eliminate
zoonotic pathogens, specically
Salmonella Enteritidis and Salmonella
Typhimurium, in meat, starting at
source on primary production units.
Zoonoses-focused legislation, such
as the Control of Salmonella and Other
Specied Food Borne Zoonotic Agents
Regulation (2160/2003), is well-
established and requires all pig farmers
to implement procedures to ensure
that feed is free from Salmonella.
Salmonella, pig feed
And the EFSA is increasingly turning
its attention to pigs, as it estimates
that 10 percent to 20 percent of
human cases of Salmonellosis that
occur within the EU can be attributed
to the consumption of pig meat.
Salmonella infections in pigs are
largely asymptomatic, with a high
proportion of infected pigs becoming
carriers and intermittent execrators of
Salmonella in their feces. Preventing
the contamination of farms with
viable and persistent Salmonella
exposures from outwardly healthy
carrier pigs is difcult to achieve.
The link between feed, farm and
food is well recognized and separate
studies in a variety of domestic
animals have clearly demonstrated
that Salmonella isolated from the
feed mill or the nished feed can be
later isolated from the farm, meat
To learn more about eradicating
Salmonella in pig feed, see
Eliminating Salmonella in
pigs starts with clean feed at
www.WATTAgNet.com/147219.html.
More information
Preventable feed-
related incidents
have highlighted
the direct impact
contaminated feed
can have on meat
production.
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processing plant, eggs or meat (Shirota et al., 2001, Liebana
et al., 2002, sterberg et al., 2006, Molla et al., 2010).
In countries with a low on-farm prevalence of Salmonella,
human infections linked to pork consumption have been
traced back to Salmonella-contaminated feedstuffs (Hald et
al., 2006, Wierup et al., 2010). As other countries, including
those in Asia Pacic, reduce their Salmonella incidence,
they too will have to become ever more vigilant in terms of
producing Salmonella-free feedstuffs for their pigs.
Heat treatment has traditionally been used to contain the
problem. However, this process adds signicantly to the cost
of feed, is energy-intensive, has a high carbon footprint,
can damage vitamins/nutrients, may not kill all pathogens
and has no residual effect. To be condent of eliminating
100 percent of Salmonella in feed (including heat-tolerant
strains), the meal must be heated to >85C for at least four
minutes and contain 14.5 percent to 15 percent moisture.
Unfortunately, the majority of mills are unable to achieving
anything like these conditions and even when using feed
hygenizers, nished clean feed must still be cooled, stored
and distributed, thus exposing it to the risk of re-contamination.
Salmonella contamination can all too easily occur at
these stages and pigs are then exposed to Salmonella-
contaminated feed. Therefore, unless other measures
are implemented, re-contamination can occur in the
mill, during transport or on farm, so it is critical to
ensure the feed is treated effectively to prevent this.
Organic acids and their salts are also popular Salmonella-
control products in pig feed. There are, however, signicant
limitations to their effectiveness in-feed. To kill Salmonella
they need to penetrate the bacteria and this requires the
molecule to be un-dissociated; generally requiring low pH,
conditions typically not found in feed but in pigs stomach acid.
It is within the pig that organic acids exert their greatest anti-
Salmonella effects; arguably too little, too late for some pigs.
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As feed manufacturers and
pig producers seek the most
effective ways to produce
Salmonella-free feed they might
be wise to look to the successes
achieved by the poultry industry
and the methods it used.
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A recent independent study has demonstrated that organic
acid-treated samples often show-up as Salmonella-negative,
despite actually containing viable Salmonella (Carrique-
Mas et al., 2006). Such masking of Salmonella (in effect,
false-negatives) is potentially catastrophic for both feed-
manufacturer and pig producer the feed manufacturer
risks contaminating the mill and the feed, while the pig
producer risks infecting their pigs with Salmonella.
For many organic acids and blends, high inclusion levels
are required to provide effective in-feed Salmonella control.
Clean pig feed
Looking at the poultry industry, where Salmonella
control has largely been a success; we nd that the
most popular in-feed Salmonella control products are
products such as Termin-8. Containing a synergistic
combination of anti-microbial substances, surfactant
and propionic acid; it provides rapid, persistent and
non-pH-dependant anti-Salmonella activity.
Research by the EFSA found that a formaldehyde-based
feed treatment provides a more effective, cost-efcient
alternative to heat treatment and, crucially, has a residual
protective effect. This was conrmed by Britains Defra-
funded research at the Veterinary Laboratories Agency which
investigated the efcacy of organic acids and formaldehyde
treatments on animal feeds. Its investigations showed
that the treatment which achieved by far the best kill of
Salmonella in feed, rather than just masking the problem,
was a liquid antimicrobial bactericide product containing 33
percent formaldehyde, propionic acid and natural terpenes,
a formula identical to Termin-8, which Anitox developed to
reduce mould and bacteria in feed and feed ingredients.
Controlling Salmonella in pigs will require a legislative and
economic push on feed manufacturers, pig producers and meat
processors to implement the increased surveillance and multiple
interventions required. As these interventions take effect, the
need to ensure that pigs are fed Salmonella-free feed will
become ever more important. As feed manufacturers and pig
producers seek the most effective ways to produce Salmonella-
free feed they might be wise to look to the successes achieved
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Untreated feed is one of the key
ways to introduce Salmonella and
other pathogens onto pig farms.
Scott Faul, director Asia Pacic for Anitox corp., has 12 years of experience
managing Asian markets within the animal health/nutrition industries.
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Vietnamese pig production is rapidly
increasing to keep up with a growing
population and expanding middle
class with a love of pork, which
is opening up new opportunities
for the global pig industry.
Vietnams pig industry is managing
to keep pace with the demand. The per-
capita consumption of pork is expected
to increase from 37.8kg a head in 2012
to 48.7kg per head by 2020, according
to the Vietnamese Department of
Agriculture. The same department
also forecasts that pig production will
increase from 31.24 million head in
2012 to 34.75 million head in 2020.
Vietnams growing
appetite for pork
The regions appetite for pig meat
could increase Vietnams world ranking
in the pork sector from its current
fourth position. It also opens the door
to pig equipment manufacturers and
breeders from abroad as Vietnamese
pig farmers upgrade their systems to
meet a growing demand for pig meat.
This was evident at the March 2012
ILDEX trade fair in Ho Chi Minh City,
where pig breeders and equipment
manufacturers from around the world
were hoping to win new customers, in
spite of reports that the PRRS virus
had infected around 19,000 pigs in six
provinces in North Vietnam recently.
European pig breeding companies are
hoping to win new business in Vietnam,
alongside the Canadian Swine Export
Association. The new EU kids on the
block at ILDEX trade fair included the
British Pig Association, ACMC Ltd. and
JSR Genetics from England, while Robert
Overend from Deerpark Pedigree Pigs
was doing his bit for Northern Ireland
and Danbred International was also a
visible presence there for the rst time.
All these pig breeding companies were
selling a package, usually consisting
of F1 females for crossing with sire
lines selected for the Vietnamese
market, along with GGP and GP lines.
Feed mills investing in farms
Several big Vietnamese feed
companies have invested in integrated
pig and poultry operations to provide
guaranteed tonnage for their mills.
Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF),
for example, has several mills in the
country, as well as integrated pig farms,
with most of its breeding stock shipped
in from its multiplier units in Thailand.
One of Vietnams largest feed millers,
Japfa, just signed a joint venture with
Hypor to produce their pigs in Vietnam.
Observers expect other European
breeding companies will be actively
searching out feed companies to
partner them in joint venture schemes
in Vietnam in the near future.
Vietnamese pig breeder
It all started 30 years ago, when
forward-thinking Vietnamese pig
farmers traveled abroad visiting
foreign pig breeders to buy purebred
gilts and boars to start up breeding
units in Vietnam, explained Nguyen
Van Than, who owns a 600-sow
unit in Dong Nai province.
I imported purebreds from all
over the world, including Large
Whites from England, Landrace
from the United States, France and
Canada, as well as Durocs from the
USA, says Van Than. I was also the
rst Vietnamese breeder to import
Pietrains from Belgium in 1997.
Currently, new pig genes are
introduced into Vietnam as semen which
is shipped in frozen and Van Than is
keen to import dam lines from Denmark.
His pig unit has a staff of 29, including
operatives who work on the farms feed
mill. He operates an all-in and all-out
system and vaccinates his pigs against
PCV2, Mycoplasma, Foot-and-Mouth
disease, Hog Cholera and Aujeszkys
Vietnamese pig industry expanding
to meet rising pork demand
Global pig breeders,
suppliers focus on
Vietnams growing
pig industry.
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An example of dry sows in stalls on a pig farm in Vietnam.
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disease. He weans piglets at four weeks.
Large White and Landrace are used
as dam lines, with Pietrain and Duroc
as sire lines. The boars are individually
tested from 30kg to 90kg for feed
conversion ratios and daily liveweight
gain and scanned to measure p2 back
fat. In addition, the Pietrain boars are
halothane tested. Boars that are not
selected are given Improvac to help him
get a better carcass price and a BLUP
program is used for the overall herd.
Van Thans boars and gilts are sold
all over Vietnam, along with semen and
his breeding unit was the rst to supply
pigs to CPF when it rst set up pig farms
in the country. Unfortunately, his pig
farm is surrounded by creeping urban
development and like several other units
in a similar position, he has to move his
operations. However, this will allow him to
double the units size to 1,200 sows and
upgrade to loose housing for pregnant
sows to meet new animal welfare
standards that are being implemented
in Vietnam. Moving to the new pig unit,
which is 60km from the current site, will
cost Van Than around US$3 million.
Pig genetics
Another pig breeding business
doing well in Vietnam is Darby CJ
Genetics, an offshoot of the Korean-
based Darby Genetics. Since 2004, the
companys nucleus pig unit contains
1,000 GGPs and GP females.
As far as sire line boars are
concerned, their growth rate, p2
backfat, conformation and leg strength
are included in the selection index, with
the pig farm producing 3,300 Large
White/Landrace F1 females every year.
The company also owns a second
unit, Hanpork, which contains 500 GP
females and also produces a 50/50
Large White/Landrace cross. It produces
3,000 F1s annually and these are
crossed with Duroc semen to produce
50 percent Duroc cross slaughter pigs.
As Vietnams pig farms expand, the
need for more genetics and high-tech
equipment to boost efciency are sure
to open the country to the international
market. This will allow it to provide
the increasing amount of quality pig
meat products its citizens are already
clamoring for and meet new food safety
and welfare standards. PIGI
Stuart Lumb is a UK-based freelance writer. He
can be reached at stuart@lumb.karoo.co.uk.
To learn more about
Vietnams growing pig
industry, see www.WATTAgNet.
com/148795.html
More information
Vong van Su of the Darby CJ Genetics breeding company in Vietnam has customers
ranging from six sows to 1,600 sows.
Nguyen Van Than was the rst
Vietnamese pig breeder to import
Pietrains from Belgium in 1997.
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Now in its 26th year, SPACE 2012
will take place September 11 through
September 14 at the Rennes Exhibition
Centre in France. Billed as The show
in touch with livestock industry
issues, organizers are looking to
build on the success the show has
experienced in previous years.
Increase in registrations
As of mid-May, organizers have
reported that more than 1,100 exhibitors
have registered for the annual event.
This number is an increase over
the same time period for 2009 and
2011, both of which were years that
saw record attendance levels.
Of the exhibitors registered,
there are 822 French companies
and 295 international companies.
Businesses new to the show number
125; of those, 37 are international.
In addition, total surface area
requested by exhibitors is also
showing an increase. To date almost
54,500 square meters of space
have been requested, an increase of
3,300 square meters over 2011.
Meetings, presentations
and events
There will be a number of
opportunities for meetings and
contacts at SPACE events:
Research and Development
Platform. This event follows on
last years session, Ecologically
Intensive Agriculture, and will
present a foretaste of the buildings
and materials of the future for
cattle farms in 2012 and for the
poultry and pig sectors in 2013.
Education. A wide range of
symposia and conferences
will take place at the show.
Employment. A speed meetings
service, designed to help job
seekers in the livestock industry,
will take place following the success
of the same event in 2011.
Competitions. Livestock competitions
and presentations will feature the
PrimHolstein France challenge
and the Limousin Festival as
particular highlights this year.
Media Coverage
For the sixth consecutive year,
SPACE and Terre-net Mdia are joining
together to provide media and events
coverage of the show on Space Terre-
net Web TV. Agricultural professionals,
their partners and the general public will
be able to see, before, during and after
SPACE, a lm of the major trends for
2012 and the main events of the show.
Starting in May, seven webcasts
on www.web-agri.fr, www.terre-net.
fr and www.space.fr will include
major features, people and animals
involved in the competitions, as well
as useful new products and services
in the InnovSPACE awards and R&D:
The rst webcast will take place
in May, featuring the main
attractions at the 2012 show
In July, there will be a
special webcast on the
InnovSPACE award-winners
In August, there will be a
webcast on The passion at the
heart of livestock farming
In September, there will be three
webcasts: InnovSPACE Special
3-star winners/the day before
the show, behind the scenes
at SPACE/Live from SPACE
September 11-14, SPACE Terre-net
Web TV will be providing 50 reports and
webcasts live from Rennes, so members
of the agricultural industry can follow
events from the show. For additional
information or to register, go to www.
space.fr. PIGI
SPACE 2012 expected to break records
for exhibitors, attendance
Organizers help pig industry professionals meet
the challenges of today and tomorrow.
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SPACE organizers expect more than
100,000 livestock industry visitors
again this year.
As of May, the animal nutrition,
health and hygiene sector is the one
most represented by direct exhibitors
and co-exhibitors at SPACE.
What: SPACE 2012
When: Tuesday,
September 11 to Friday,
September 14, 2012
Where: Rennes Exhibition
Centre, France
For more info:
go to www.space.fr
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VNU Exhibitions Europe ..................................................29
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