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July/August 2009Volume 31, Number 4

Man-made global warming – a threat to theplanet or just a new taxgrab that will threatenindustry and jobs?

Stockyard Industriesbenefits from BETCOprefabricated sheds

Victorian Pig Fair2009 at Bendigo

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• Parvo is present on nearly all farms.

• It can disrupt your herd output by reducing litter size.

• Parvo can reduce your profi t.

• Vaccinating your gilts and sows against parvo protects your litter size and your investment.

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• With just one shot at weaning, PLEvac reduces needles and labour.

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NEWS4 Man-made global warming – a threat to the planet or just a new tax grab that willthreaten industries and jobs?

In August, Editor Peter Bedwell attended a meeting where Professor Bob Carter, asenior science adviser to the Australian Climate Science Coalition (ACSC) and oneof Australia’s most experienced environmental scientists and Dr Jay Lehr, the Scientific Director from the US based Heartland Institute, addressed a gathering ofscientists, students, industry identities and the media at the Rydges World Squareon the CPRS debate.

6 QAF aligns for growth with name change

QAF Meat Industries has recently changed its name to Rivalea, marking a timewhen the company is moving from being a commodity producer to a diversifiedagribusiness, focused on achieving growth through quality and innovation.

14 Victorian Pig Fair 2009 at BendigoAbout 400 visitors attended the 2009 Victorian Pig Fair held at BendigoShowgrounds on July 28-29 and the mood was upbeat despite concerns over theH1N1 influenza situation.

22 Fair range of Pork CRC research highlighted

Victoria’s pig industry was treated to the very latest in pig research when the PorkCRC presented its Program Update at the 2009 Victorian Pig Fair recently.

23 Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition Forum hears global perspectives on animal production and human health

Relationships between animal production and both human health and the health ofthe planet were among the themes of a major international conference at theUniversity of New England recently. About 100 delegates from Australia and abroadgathered for the 20th biennial conference in a unique series ‘Recent Advances inAnimal Nutrition – Australia’.

8 COVER FEATURE Stockyard Industries benefits from BETCO prefabricated sheds

Stockyard Industries, part of the Jones family owned CEFN Group, is wellknown in the Australian pig industry. The company was established exactly 69years ago by Keith (KB) Jones. Today the CEFN group, consisting of CEFN PtyLtd pig rearing, CEFN Genetics and Stockyard Industries, is a still expandingfamily owned business run by KB’s grandsons Andrew and Marcus Jones.

18 NUTRITION FEATURE NuPro and the quality piglet

Dr David Henman from Rivalea says that it is in these times of greatest challenges that innovation becomes the focus so that every cent we spend isreturned to us with maximum interest. It is this very reason that the use ofingredients and additives needs to consider the return the ingredient gives inrespect to pig performance and economics not just the feed cost changes.

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NEW PRODUCTS25 Spiraflo heat exchanger reconditioning26 The stall that meets the demands of modern pig production

• Parvo is present on nearly all farms.

• It can disrupt your herd output by reducing litter size.

• Parvo can reduce your profi t.

• Vaccinating your gilts and sows against parvo protects your litter size and your investment.

PLEvac. We’re back!• PLEvac is the only 3 in 1 vaccine that

protects sows and litters against three major causes of infectious disease in sows and baby pigs: parvo, lepto and erysipelas.

• With just one shot at weaning, PLEvac reduces needles and labour.

• Easy on them. Easy on you. NOW AVAILABLE

Parvo.Not your average disease. A constant threat.

Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health91-105 Harpin Street, Bendigo East VIC 3550 • Free Call: 1800 033 461Free Fax: 1800 817 414 • [email protected] • www.intervet.com.au

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NEWSMan-made global warming – a threat to the planet or just a newtax grab that will threaten industries and jobs?

If anyone truly understands current emis-sions trading legislation and the ‘CarbonPollution Reduction Scheme’(CPRS) andspecifically the Emissions Trading Scheme(ETS) bill that will soon return toParliament, then it would be fair to assumethat they are in a very small minority.

Certainly a whole industry based onreduction of carbon emissions and carbontrading seems to have emerged in no time.

The scientific community have in general embraced the idea and it has beenestimated that more than $100 billion hasbeen expended worldwide on proving manmade global warming is taking place and ofcourse, what can be done do to reduce itseffects on humanity.

To deny that man is a key cause of climate change invites ridicule at all levelsof society and particularly amongst the scientific community.

Against this tide of angst caused by theidea of man made global warming, thereare a few eminent scientists willing to standup and actually question the hypothesisthat man’s activities seriously threaten theplanet through carbon emissions.

Recently Family First Senator SteveFielding had the temerity to questionwhere we as a nation are going on globalwarming/climate change.

Senator Fieding consulted ProfessorBob Carter, a senior science adviser to theAustralian Climate Science Coalition(ACSC) and one of Australia’s most experi-enced environmental scientists.

His research and long experience hasconvinced him that man-made carbonemissions have little effect on the overallclimate of the planet

Dr Carter is a Research Professor atJames Cook University (Queensland) andat the University of Adelaide (SouthAustralia).

He is a palaeontologist, stratigrapher,marine geologist and environmental scientist with more than thirty years professional experience, and holds degreesfrom the University of Otago (NewZealand) and the University of Cambridge(England).

He points out that both he and theAustralian Climate Science Coalitionreceive no major grants, for research orotherwise from industry or government.

In fact, Dr Carter states any chance he

had of well funded research into the proposition that man is not greatly affect-ing climate change, disappeared long ago.

On August 12, Dr Carter conducted abriefing at Parliament house just prior tothe Senate vote on the CPRS bill.

Just 13 of our elected members ofupper and lower houses bothered to attend,but as Dr Carter states that’s 13 more thanthe last time he tried to inform our politicians at the same location.

At that August 12th briefing wasanother scientist and ‘man-made globalwarming ‘sceptic’, Dr Jay Lehr, the Scientific Director from the US basedHeartland Institute.

The Heartland Institute is an indepen-dent nonprofit organization based inChicago.

In 2008 Dr Lehr was named Chiefhydro-geologist for Earth Water Global(EWG) corporation, one of the world’slargest providers of water supply projects.

He is an internationally renowned speaker, scientist, and author who has testi-fied before the US Congress on more thanthree dozen occasions on environmentalissues, and consulted with nearly everyagency of the US federal governmentincluding the current Obama administra-tion.

Like Dr Carter, Dr Lehr believes thatthe climate change debate has beenhijacked by powerfull interest groups andpolitical considerations have made it difficult to question the wisdom of goingdown the path of tax based carbon emission reduction policy like theAustralian CPRS scheme.

On the evening of August 12 DrCarter and Dr Lehr addressed a gatheringof scientists, students, industry identitiesand the media at the Rydges World Squareon the Canberra briefings and their viewson the CPRS debate.

Dr Carter pointed to a mass of dataaccumulated over a long period thatdemonstrated naturally occurring climatechange over a 170,000 year period.

“In more recent times there have beenice ages – traditionally periods of low carbon dioxide in the atmosphere andwarmer periods when carbon levels weresimilar to those of today,” he said.

“There is plenty of recorded historicalevidence as well as ice core data to confirm w

that Europe was hotter during Romanoccupation with vines growing in northernBritain, and later a mini ice age when thesea froze continuously from Greenland tothe French coast.

“Carbon dioxide was not a poison buta benefit to plants that thrived at higherCO2 levels.

“The danger,” he said, “was more likelyto occur from natural events, volcaniceruption and major earthquakes that wouldhave the potential to seriously threatenlarge communities. Governments shouldplan to deal better with those events thanworry about unproven man made globalwarming,” he said.

Dr Carter did stress that while man-made CO2 emission did little, he believed,to effect global warming overall, concen-trated emissions from human activity couldeffect smaller localities.

Also he stated huge human populationstress had occurred in the past not throughglobal warming but global cooling periods.

The planet, Dr Carter said, had shownthe ability to adapt to higher carbon levelsin the past and would continue to do so.

“While Australian governments at stateand federal levels had been obsessed with‘climate change issues’ the Victorian bushfires had destroyed millions of dollarsworth of property and farming land andkilled hundreds of people,” he pointed out.

Dr Lehr stated that the ‘global warming’ issue was yet another fear campaign by governments around theworld including those of the US andAustralia, to increase its control over its citizens and create a new tax revenue

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stream.Carbon trading would also create a

bonanza for the financial sector but costordinary citizens jobs and a healthy slice ofincome if they had one.

In the case of Australia, he estimatedthat once the current proposed CPRSscheme was implemented as proposed, itcould cost a typical Australian family anextra $3000 in today’s values.

Industry would not fight that hard toresist CPRS because, he suggested, theircosts would simply be passed on to consumers.

“I feel sorry for farmers,” he said, asthey, he predicted, would be amongst thefirst group to feel the full effects of CPRSwhile the big polluters like coal fired powergenerators would be exempted or compen-sated for losses for years to come.

On the specifics of power generationand its relationship to global warming, DrLehr stated that renewable energy sourceslike solar and wind in Australia, wouldonly be useful in remote areas to supple-ment more conventional forms of powergeneration.

He suggested that for better efficiency,natural gas was the first option to replacecoal fired power stations transitioning tonuclear generation which was the logicalchoice for Australia.

Though in original proposals for anETS scheme, agriculture was exempt, thatsituation is unclear now that the wholedebate is due to return to the Senate.

At a conference run by the QueenslandDairyfarmers’ Organisation at Toowoombaon August 25, 2009 Chris Phillips fromDairy Australia in a paper, ‘Carbon Trading& Green House-Dairy Industry Issues &Initiatives, outlined the complexities anduncertainties now facing his industry.

Apart from methane and nitrous oxideemissions caused by livestock on-farm,there was the issue of energy intensive processing of milk to milk products likemilk powder, cheese etc.

As Mr Phillips pointed out, the dairyfarmers’ base product could only be sold asa further processed product, not a rawmaterial.

Apart from the cost of emissions therewas also the question of increased energycosts consistent with achieving 20% ofpower through renewable sources – a concern backed up by Dr Lehr’s contentionthat renewables were a costly and ineffec-tive solution to power requirements.

Finally what does this mean for porkproducers.

Our battles in the past with govern-ment policy makers have nearly wreckedour industry and costs associated with an

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ETS would only make life harder.Further, there is the question of our

trade competitiveness in both our ability togenerate exports and compete againstimports.

If countries with whom we trade getexemptions, credits or more governmentfinancial support to help them through transition periods, (and you can bet theywill) where does that leave us if our industryfaces yet another cost to production?

Carbon taxes notwithstanding, howwill it be administered and what will compliance regulation look like? Not prettyyou can bet.

For those seeking more informationfrom ‘The Other Side’ on this complexissue go to www.auscsc.org.au/ (click onlink to the SBS interview with BrianJohnson for SBS news August 13).

QAF aligns for growth with name changeLeading Australian Pork producer RivaleaAustralia is working hard to defy wide-spread economic gloom, adverse commodity prices and drought.

The company has recently changed itsname from QAF Meat Industries, markinga time when the company is moving frombeing a commodity producer to a diversi-fied agribusiness, focused on achievinggrowth through quality and innovation.

Rivalea’s Managing Director PaulPattison said, “We believe our name changewill cement our clear focus on achievingcontinuous quality improvements.

“This will secure the future for our keystakeholders – employees, consumers, suppliers, farmers and contractors. Theintegrated nature of our business, togetherwith our investment in innovation, hasseen the company become the largest private investor in livestock R&D inAustralia as well as one of the largest porkproducers.”

Rivalea’s research and implementationof quality handling and welfare systems,

have enabled the company to developAustralia’s most advanced genetic programs,farm management systems and nutritionalsolutions. Many of these innovations arenow available to other leading pork producers through Primegro Technologies,including Rivalea’s leading genetics andnutrition expertise.

The Rivalea feedmill supplies in excessof 300,000 tonnes of grain both for Rivaleafarming operations and other farmers. Thisis supported by a team of nutritionists andmany years of experience.

Mr Pattison said “We are particularlypleased to be positioning for growth at atime when the pork industry in particularand agriculture in general, is facing manychallenges.

Rivalea’s key operations include:• Farming and leasing land to producegrain, and purchasing significant quantitiesof grain,• Milling more than 300,000 tonnes ofgrain annually, in order to supply its ownintegrated pork production system as well

as other pork producers.• Producing and processing pigs to supplypremium pork to wholesale and retail markets both in Australia and overseas.• Operating Australia’s largest commerciallivestock research and development program. • Primegro Technologies supplies the superior Rivalea genetics to pork producersas well as nutrition and consulting servicesin Australia and abroad. • Operating large dairy farms.

“We remain confident that past challenges are being overcome and that thefuture for the pork industry is brighterthan ever.

“As an industry leader, Rivalea willcontinue to strongly advocate AustralianPork among our domestic and internation-al customers.

“We’ll be continuing our support for research and development atour own facilities and through our partner-ship with the Australian Pork CRC,” saidMr Pattison.

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New CEFN BETCO sheds at Strathane deliver productivitygains and cost savings on power and labour.


Stockyard industries, part of the Jonesfamily owned CEFN Group, is well knownin the Australian pig industry.

The company was established exactly 69years ago by Keith (KB) Jones when he

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travelled to the Brisbane ‘EKKA’ from hisClifton property to acquire seed stock for hisnew pig rearing business.

At exactly the same time on the otherside of the world the Luftwaffe was engagingthe Royal Air Force over the skies of the UKin what later became known as the Battle ofBritain.

Back in those dark times, most punditspredicted the defeat of Britain at the handsof Nazi Germany and thus grave conse-quences for the British Empire and itsdominion nations including Australia.

In current day parlance, given themomentous events occurring back in August1940, it could fairly be said that at the veryleast KB’s new enterprise was ‘counter cyclical’.

It is obviously a matter of happy recordthat the UK survived – so did KB Jones andCEFN!

Today the CEFN group, consisting ofCEFN Pty Ltd pig rearing, CEFN Geneticsand Stockyard Industries, is a still expandingfamily owned business run by KB’s grandsons Andrew and Marcus Jones.

On-farm activities of the group includethe operation of a 4000 sow piggery atStrathane near Clifton in Queensland withthree breeder units integrated into overallpig production on the 23 shed farm.

The company holds 4500 acres onwhich it rears 300 head of breeder cattle andraises crops, mainly sorghum on 1800 acres.

More recently the piggery waste hasbeen used to establish a valuable product forfertiliser and pasture improvement on boththe CEFN owned properties and on otherfarms in the locality.

In the time he has worked with CEFNand Stockyard Industries, Marcus Jones hastravelled extensively, not only promoting thepig production business, but also looking athow things were done in both advanced anddeveloping overseas pig industry markets.

Marcus spent two years living and work-ing in China just 20 years ago and was infact in that country around the time of theTiananmen Square crack down by Chinesemilitary forces.

He also became convinced that US pigrearing methodology and related equipmentwas more in tune with Australian require-

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1. New BETCO automated climate controlled double shed. 2. Conventional sheds,built in 2003 are not as efficient as BETCO units. 3. New sheds house 980 pigs in eachroom. 4. New BETCO weaner shed showing ceiling and easy to manage layout. 5. Ona hot August day fans in conventional sheds are working flat out whereas only one ortwo main fans operating in BETCO insulated units.

ments than European designed and manu-factured infrastructure.

Stockyard Industries consequentlysources most of its key products from theUS including AP equipment and in 2004Marcus, looking for a better alternative tothe locally designed and built sheds at theStrathane piggery, came across the BETCOprefabricated livestock shed range.

These sheds are specifically designed byBETCO Agri-Housing to suit both the specific livestock species and the local climate.

The company has sold its highly specificlivestock sheds for use in sub-arctic regionsand also the tropics, including Australia.

Marcus explains that the BETCO shedsare delivered as a complete knock down kitand include all components including thesteel main structure, the timber sub frames(plantation treated pine) steel cladding androofing and even the specially treated (forpest resistance) recycled paper roofing insulation material (Cellulose).

“The fact that the sheds have an Aframe roof that is insulated and then a ceiling that also carries the paper based insulation material, makes them far morethermally efficient that conventional shedswith roof insulation only,” Marcus said.

“Each shed, which is 22 metres wideand 67 metres long, has a capacity of up to980 pigs per room – the design features acommon wall down the centre which saveson cost and construction time when com-pared with a conventional stand alone shedof similar size and pig housing capacity.

“The sheds are fully climate controlledthrough use of AP fans and evaporative coolpads all controlled through an AP computerclimate control system.

“The control set up also features back tobase reporting so that we can constantlymonitor the shed’s vital functions off site.This is another AP product known as theIntegra System and it’s a very valuable toolfor effective farm management,” Marcusexplained.

“Another recent initiative built into ourcomputer based management system is themonitoring of feed levels in our silosthrough weight sensors.

“This means that we can more accuratelypredict when we will need feed deliveriesand can give our feed supplier moreadvanced warning.

“Greater automation and accurate climate and feed control helps to lowerlabour costs – we can run our farm with justfour permanent staff who can concentrateon vital animal husbandry tasks and not bediverted by shed management chores nowperformed by computers and the automatedsystems they are linked to.”

Apart from the AP equipment in thenew BETCO sheds, the feeders areStockyard Industries’ popular Penguin units

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and the flooring tiles placed over concretefloors are concrete Stocktiles in the finishersheds and Faroex’s Polygrate in weaner/nursery units.

“We are very pleased with the BETCOsheds and we first demonstrated to ourselvesthat they were clearly better than the conventional sheds we built before findingthe BETCO sheds in 2004.

“The fact that we operate both types ofsheds on the time site with the same staff,feed and climate control automation systemsmeans that we can make realistic compar-isons – they run the same heaters and fans,”Marcus stated.

“The BETCO units are faster to build –our guys can erect a pair of sheds in aboutsix weeks – we get better pigs and we saveheaps on energy costs because the new shedsare just so much more thermally efficient.

“This last claim was clearly demonstratedwhen Pork Journal visited the Strathane piggery on August 13.

By early afternoon the temperature hadreached an unseasonal 28 degrees C.

The climate controllers are all set to thesame shed temperature and the main fans inthe end walls on the conventional shedswere all hammering away, yet in theBETCO units only one or at most two fanswere running and then only at lower speeds.

In answer to the obvious question, “yesthey may be a superior shed design, but howmuch more do they cost than more conven-tional units”, Marcus said this.

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“Further, the demonstrable gains inoverall pig production efficiencies and serious savings in energy costs very sooncancel out any cost differential.

“The BETCO sheds are easier for staffto work in and keep clean,” Marcus added.

With the pork production and geneticsbusiness looking up as the pig industryrecovers from recent tough times, what’snext for Stockyard Industries?

“Well,” said Marcus “the popularity ofthe BETCO sheds has lead us into another

enterprise and that’s as a supplier to thepoultry industry.

“BETCO also supplies a range of specif-ically designed poultry housing and beforewe even thought of supplying the chickenbroiler and layer farmers some came to us toenquire about the sheds.

“On a recent trip to Europe our biggestinitiative was recently to become anAustralian dealer for Big Dutchman poultryshed equipment,” Marcus revealed.

All in all CEFN and StockyardIndustries has come a long way since KBJones made his trip from Clifton to Brisbaneto acquire his first pigs back in 1940.

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of boars and that the only certain methodof elimination was either chemical or surgical castration.

He added that both surgical and chemical castration could cause pigs to puton more fat than the complete animal butthat the chemically castrated pigs put onless than those subject to surgical procedure.

Kenton Shaw, General Manager offarming operations at Rivalea in hisaddress, ‘APP control in large systems - avaccine to save the day?’ outlined the problem APP-Pleuro pneumonia causes inlarge populations including increased mortality, loss of profitability and cost ofthe disease control.

“It also has a detrimental effect onstock people with more effort required andhuge levels of frustration,” he said.

Previously conventional killed vaccina-tion was labour intensive, difficult in largepopulations and eco shelters so the onlyreal answer was depop-repop.

“There were also carcass quality issuesthrough abscesses and pleurisy leading to atypically 10% loss,” Mr Shaw said.

“With the new live vaccine adminis-tered with one dose of aerosol at 4-7 daysinto the nasal passage of the piglet, therehas been a great improvement in diseasecontrol.

“The live vaccine however presents itsown set of problems including a short halflife and difficulties in use during periods ofhigh temperatures.

“The vaccine needs to be stored at -80degrees C and trans-ported in dry ice andice packs are neededfor dosing in sheds,also administrationneeds to be completedwithin an hour,” hesaid.

“Finishers are stillsusceptible to diseasechallenge at 16-18weeks and we are trialling fogging ratherthan multi- dosing at8 weeks of age.

Despite these challenges, the live APP vaccine showedsignificant improvement in the proportionof carcass downgrades to 0.5% of pigs sold,and mortalities down from 6% to 2%.

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About 400 visitors attended the VictorianPig Fair held at the Bendigo Showgroundson July 28-29, 2009 and the mood wasupbeat despite concerns over the H1N1influenza situation.

The Trade Fair was also well supportedand it was pleasing to see some newexhibitors as well as the regulars whoattend this long established event.

The main sponsor was the Pork CRCand the event kicked off with the CEO DrRoger Campbell outlining recent PorkCRC updates and he officially declared theevent open.

The well-attended conference sessionon the 28th was started by Cherie Collinswith her paper ‘Strategies to enhance theperformance of pigs post weaning andimprove profitability through to sale’.

In this CRC supported project jointlyconducted by Rivalea and the WADepartment of Agriculture, Ms Collinsfirst pointed out that poorly performingpigs post weaning take an extra 10 days toreach market weight.

Feeding strategies were examined insome detail and Ms Collins and herresearch colleagues established that lightbirthweight affects carcass P2 – these pigsend up being fatter.

In concluding her presentation MsCollins stated that, “birth weight, weaningweight and time to first suckle were all critical for good lifetime performance.There was no noticeable improvement inlifetime performance if pigs were weaned at29 days rather than 22 days”.

“There was only limited value of supplying creep feed or expensive diets toall pigs pre and post weening and that lightfor age pigs at weaning should possibly betreated as a separate population,” she concluded.

Next Dr Bruce Mullan from the WADepartment of Agriculture and Food spokeon the topic of ‘Strategies to optimise performance and profit from grower-finisher pigs’.

He outlined recent experiments includ-ing feeding strategies, lysine requirementand the use of Improvac.

Then he proceeded to explain how thisresearch could be applied to on-farm conditions.

The Feedlogic research at the WAMedina facility was described in somedetail.

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improving our use of the live vaccine,” Mr Shaw concluded.Dr Roger Campbell was the final speaker on the first day’s

session speaking on the topic, ‘Managing feed efficiency in finishing’.“Pigs growing from 65kgs to sale use 35-45% and costs

increases daily. Feed efficiency can decline by 15-35% in the lasttwo weeks of growth,” he said.

Dr Campbell then explained the relevance of effects on weighton DE (MJ) used per Kg of gain in females grown in commercialsituations when measured by use of the Feedlogic system whichrevealed cost build up in later growth stages.

He then went on to summarise results to date on trials usingPaylean and Reporcin in combination in commercial situations.

The take home message of the combination in a 1200 headshed was an overall improvement in efficiencies of 6.7%.

The following seminar session on July 29 featured papers onsow lameness and then ‘net energy’, the new way of measuringenergy in diets.

Dean Guenther, Oceania Area Manager for Zinpro, in hisaddress, ‘Sow lameness - Assessing the herd’ introduced the Zinpro‘Feet First’ initiative to raise awareness of the problem of sow lame-ness and the need for growers to understand the issue and its rami-fications on economics of production, welfare issues and practicalsolutions (www.feetfirst.zinpro.com).

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1. Charles Rickard-Bell, Elanco. 2. Chris Brewster from Ridley. 3. Dean Gunther from Zinpro 4. Neil Sammons from IntervetSchering-Plough. 5. Adam Naylor from Alltech (right) with RobRosaia from Rivalea.

We will be dealing with this topic and the ‘Feet First’ programin a later issue of Pork Journal.

Similarly the ‘Net Energy (NE) vs. Digestible Energy (DE)debate teased out by Dr David Cadogan (Feedworks) and ChrisBrewster (Ridleys) needs more detailed explanation which will, likesow lameness, appear in subsequent issues of Pork Journal.

The Victorian Pig Fair, organised by hard working people likePat Mitchell (APL) and Jodie Boyce (Ridley) to name but two of agreat team of volunteers, was run to a highly professional standard.

It is a credit to these volunteers that the show ran well, it is alsoa credit to organisations like Ridley and APL for their support in notonly sponsoring this event but also allowing their key staff to participate, and Jodie Boyce acknowledged this is summing up theseminar session.

The social side of these events with opportunities to network arenot to be underestimated and the PIC and APL supportedNetworking session on the evening of the 28th and following APL‘Pork Pig Out’ for hungry participants was well attended and appreciated by exhibitors and growers alike.

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Victoria’s pig industry was treated to thevery latest in pig research when the PorkCRC presented its Program Update at the2009 Victorian Pig Fair recently.

The Pork CRC was the Gold Sponsorof the Fair, which highlighted the best ofVictoria’s and Australia’s pig industry at theBendigo Exhibition Centre, July 28-29.

The Pork CRC’s Program Updateopened the fair and illustrated the breadthand depth of its extensive research program.

Dr Cherie Collins, of Rivalea Australia(formerly known as QAF), presented thePork CRC’s project on strategies toenhance the performance of pigs afterweaning and improve profitability throughto sale.

Leader of the Pork CRC’s Subprogram2a, which examines innovative productsand strategies for the measurement of feedintake, Dr Bruce Mullan of theDepartment of Agriculture and Food WA,presented on feeding strategies to reducecost of production.

The Pork CRC research examined pigsfed on conventional, blended and singlediets.

It concluded that producers haveoptions to reduce feed costs that are largelyassociated with feeding pigs diets where thenutrient concentration closely matches thepig’s requirements.

Dr Mullan also presented results of aPork CRC honours student’s project on theeffect of timing of immunocastration onpig performance. The results showed thedecline in feed efficiency and increase inback fat thickness associated with the second vaccination against boar taintincreased with the time between the secondvaccination and sale.

Kenton Shaw, of Rivalea Australia,updated an attentive audience on the commercial implementation of the PorkCRC’s APP-Alive vaccine, which is signifi-cantly reducing carcass downgrades andmortalities and lowering costs for theindustry.

Dr Roger Campbell, CEO of the PorkCRC, concluded the presentations byspeaking on managing feed efficiency inlate finishing.

He concluded by saying that it wasvery gratifying to present the practicalresults of the Pork CRC’s research work ata forum as successful as the Victorian PigFair.

Pork CRC supported students Robyn Terry, University of Adelaide, Amy Bellhouse,Melbourne University, Rebecca Athorn, University of Adelaide and Meeka Capozzalo,University of Western Australia, at the Pork CRC Gold sponsored 2009 Victorian PigFair at Bendigo.

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Relationships between animal production and both human health andthe health of the planet were among the themes of a major internationalconference at the University of New England recently.

About 100 delegates from Australia and abroad gathered for the20th biennial conference in a unique series ‘Recent Advances inAnimal Nutrition – Australia’. All 20 conferences have been held atUNE.

The opening speaker, Professor Andrew Sinclair from DeakinUniversity, commented that UNE provided “a very positive location”for the conference, allowing national and international leaders in thefield of animal nutrition to mingle freely in an “informal setting”.

Professor Sinclair, the President of the Nutrition Society ofAustralia, spoke about the need for closer links between people whowork in agriculture and those who work in human nutrition.Emphasising the importance of producing healthy food, he spokeabout the complexity of the current problem of obesity.

“We live in an ‘obesogenic’ environment,” he said, “ – an environ-ment that entices us to eat more than we need to.”

Innovations to meet the challenges of climate change, and concerns about the Australian Government’s Carbon PollutionReduction Scheme (CPRS), were a major theme of the 2009 conference, which ran from the July 12 to 15.

The prominent Australian industry consultant Dr Robert vanBarneveld and UNE’s Professor David Cottle spoke about the implications of the scheme for the pig industry and the sheep industryrespectively. Dr van Barneveld said that new technologies – includingthe growing of algae to feed pigs – had the potential to reduce carbonemissions in pork production to zero, but that the CPRS (which, hesaid, was “effectively a tax”) provided the industry with no incentives toimplement these advances.

Dr Roger Hegarty from the NSW Department of PrimaryIndustries and Dr Bob Hunter from CSIRO’s Division of LivestockIndustries provided the latest information on ways of reducing the pro-duction of methane by cattle and sheep, and several papers by UNEscientists highlighted the potential for a new method of reducing methane output in these animals by using a dietary supplement containing nitrate instead of urea.

A number of presentations by delegates from abroad provided theconference with the information on a range of recent nutritionaladvances. One of these, presented by Dr Aaron Cowieson from ABVista Feed Ingredients in the UK, dealt with the use of feed enzymes toenhance amino acid digestibility in the diets of pigs and poultry.

UNE’s Dr Darryl Savage, who chaired the organising committeefor the conference, said that “Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition”was unique in Australia in bringing together the commercial andresearch sectors of the animal nutrition community.

Over the years, he said, “Recent Advances” had developed “from asmall, informal meeting of animal nutrition scientists to Australia’sleading animal nutrition conference, attracting researchers and practi-tioners from throughout the world”.

One of the delegates – Tony Edwards, a livestock consultant fromSouth Australia – has attended all 20 of the conferences at UNE.

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Protecting pigs against the H1N1 strain ofinfluenza was one of the issues producerslearnt about at a recent Pig Health andBiosecurity seminar in Toowoomba.

Queensland Primary Industries andFisheries (QPIF) and Elders Toowoomba,hosted a free seminar on July 28 to providevaluable information on improving pighealth and on farm biosecurity.

QPIF Biosecurity Queensland principalpolicy officer, Dr Lyndon Dadswell said atotal of 60 people attended, including producers from across the Darling Downs,Lockyer Valley, Warwick, BunyaMountains, Kingaroy and Marburg.

“Piggery owners, operators, workersand industry representatives attended theseminar to learn about how to protect theirpigs from disease,” he said.

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The key note speaker was Dr GregMarr, a pig veterinarian, consultant andpiggery owner from Kingaroy.

Dr Marr said pig heath was influencedby the presence of disease agents, physiology,management, nutrition and the environ-ment.

“Minimising the number of disease-causing agents, providing appropriate andadequate diets, sufficient good qualitywater, an environment that suits theage/size of pig and handling pigs appropri-ately minimises the risk of disease in pigs.”

Dr Marr said weaner pigs could nothandle cold and drafty conditions and benefited from controlled environmenthousing.

Other speakers were veterinarian DrMarta Hernandez-Jover from University ofSydney and QPIF Biosecurity Queenslandsenior inspector Peter Mowett.

Dr Hernandez-Jover said that most diseases entered a farm through the entryof infected animals.

“Although, only a small percentage ofdisease enters through other ways, such asaerosol spread from other farms, contami-nated objects such as dirty boots, and vehicles, vectors (mosquitoes) or equipmentused for treatments, these pathways need tobe considered too” she said.

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Top: LtoR: Pig producer Will Beijsens from ‘Ballgrove’ Kingaroy, vet Greg Marr from Kingaroy, Sara Willis from QPIF Toowoomba and Marta Hernandez-Jover from University of Sydney. Above: LtoR: Pig producers Belinda Marriage from Tillari Trotters, Karara, and Judy Barnet from Black Beauty Large Black Pig Stud at Clintonvale with Laurie Dunn from QPIF Toowoomba and Peter Mowett from QPIF Oakey.



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New Zealand Pork Chief Executive Sam McIvor said the industry would continue to actively engage with government as itreviews animal welfare practices, establish an industry-wide animalwelfare audit scheme and investigate improved product labelling.

“Consumer confidence is vital to ensure the continued successof the NZ pork industry, especially when record levels of inferiorimported product has arrived on our shores,” Mr McIvor said.

“To a large extent this confidence is based on three key elements – product quality, information and choice. There is nodoubt that New Zealand pork is of the highest of quality but thereneeds to be more work to ensure consumers have accurate informa-tion about our pork and are able to make appropriate purchasing

decisions based on this.“For this reason, as well as our focus on the review of the Pig Welfare Code, we will begin an industry-wide animal welfare

audit of every commercial pig farm in New Zealand. We will developa product labeling descriptor system that will allow wholesalers andretailers to clearly identify the production system their pork has beengrown under.”

The audit scheme will be based around an independent annualreview of compliance with the Pig Welfare Code and will dovetailinto regular vet visits that commercial pigs farmers have as part oftheir current animal health and care programmes.

The approach has been strongly supported by abattoirs, whole-salers, processors and retailers as part of their consumer assuranceprograms.

“We believe this is the last plank in the pork industry’s ten yearwelfare improvement programme started in 2005. This programincludes farmer training and education, the monitoring of changes insow housing methods, the problem piggery reporting scheme and aresearch programme targeted at testing new sow housing methods.

“Providing accurate descriptions of farming systems will allowconsumers to purchase with confidence, in the knowledge thesedescriptors accurately reflect the farming practices used in NZ.

“It is too early to say how we will describe our different farmingsystems, but this will be part of the work that will be undertaken toensure we get this right,” Mr McIvor said.

“We believe that a focus on the way we produce our pork willhelp show the consumer that the 700,000 kg of imported pork andpork products arriving in NZ every week are produced under framingsystems that are not as animal-friendly as ours,” Mr McIvor said.



Introduced at the Victorian Pig Fair on theMundigo stand was a new sow stall that,according to Mundigo’s Managing DirectorMike Andersen, “meets all the demands ofmodern pig production”.

The stall is supplied with threeadjustable spacer pipes attached to the topof the stalls.

“Other stall designs are available onspecial request,and a range of other lengthscan be made to order,” Mike said.

“Feet positions can be changed onordering to match drain and front troughpositions.

“The stalls are hot dip galvanized,with strength built into the design andmanufacture.

“The standard dimensions 2300mm x615mm internal size which meets new welfare code requirements,” Mike added.

“There is the option of rear entry, frontexit or rear entry and exit. Sows can enteror leave in either direction and the design

features a low rear gate step throughsection section for safe and easy AImanagement.

“The design features stainlesssteel legs and feet, with height anddirection adjustable at the rear foot.

“The gate pins lift only 50mmto open and close the gates andsows cannot open the gates them-selves.

“There is an optional steel feed dispenser pipe.

“This dry sow stall has beendesigned with consideration to sowwelfare and operator safety.

“It is easy to use with operator-friendly gate latches. A large diame-ter bottom rail gives sows an easierrest while laying down, and adds tothe stalls strength,” said Mike.

Contact Mike Anderson fromMundigo on (08) 8752 0777 for moreinformation about the stalls.

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