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APSA 2019 Conference program announced Planning for the Australasian Pig Science Association (APSA) 17th biennial conference is well under way and will be held from the November 1720, 2019 at the Hilton Hotel, Adelaide. The organising Committee believes the conference program will be a fitting way to celebrate the Year of the Pig and showcase the work of both Australasian and international pig researchers. From humble beginnings with the first APSA conference being held in 1987 in the NSW regional town of Albury, APSA conferences have truly become international scientific forums. The 2019 conference is set to continue this tradition. The APSA conference will once again commence with the presentation of the AC Dunkin Memorial Lecture on the Sunday evening which is delivered to inspire, encourage thought, and to give members of the pig science community the opportunity to reflect upon their contributions to pig science and the overall contribution of pork production to sustaining the global community. The Committee has announced that the 17th APSA conference AC Dunkin Memorial Lecture will be presented by Dr R Dean Boyd, who is the former Technical Leader for the Hanor Company and Triumph Foods group (2002-2017) and with his team, managed the nutrition program for 90,000 sows and 2.45 million pigs. Dr Boyd’s research has led to a better understanding of energy and amino acid nutrition, ingredient mitigation of disease stress on growth, and the profound life-time effects of low weaning age. He has published more than 200 scientific papers in scholarly journals, book chapters and conference papers and in 2016 received the Animal Nutrition Research award for distinguished contributions. He is suitably qualified to present a perspective on the most significant scientific innovations in pig production from the past, present and future. Rapid advances in technologies within agriculture look set to disrupt modern practices and provide producers with a greater volume of information on their livestock. However, we need to ensure that those technologies don’t create

information overload, but rather provide producers with the ability to monitor their livestock and make real-time decisions. An exciting symposium will be delivered on technological innovations for the pork industry. Prof Mark Hutchinson from The University of Adelaide will be presenting on the potential of technologies delivering objective measures of the brain, immune, gut and reproductive systems. Asst Prof Tomas Norton from KU Leuven is a leading authority in the use and development of precision livestock farming (PLF) technologies in Europe. He will present on the future of PLF technologies in Europe and in particular, PLF technologies for the measurement of welfare, disease and production. Chris Piotrowski from Aunir will present on NIR handheld technology, advances in NIR technology for meat quality with the Iberian pig, and calibration, development and the application of hand-held devices for grain assessment. Dr Mike Tokach from Kansas State University, named among the 50 people who have made the greatest impact in the US swine industry in the last 50 years, will present a review on the nutrient requirements, with an emphasis on amino acids, of the modern highproducing lactating sow. Dr Clay Lents from the US Dept of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service will discuss neuro-endocrine control of reproduction with an emphasis on improving productivity and reducing the impact of seasonal infertility. Prof Carol Bagnell from the Rutgers University will present a review on maternal programming of development and the lactocrine hypothesis. Dr Kristy DiGiacomo from the University of Melbourne will present a review on insect meal as an alternative feed ingredient, while internationally recognised meat scientist Prof Robyn Warner from the University of Melbourne will present a review on alternative sources of protein for human consumption. Rounding out the invited speakers is Dr Steve Little from Capacity+ Ag Consulting who will present a review on the importance of water quality and

its impact on pharmacokinetics given the focus on more judicious use of antibiotics and the move away from infeed medications. International APSA Travel Scholarship Award applications open The purpose of the International APSA Travel Scholarship is to introduce outstanding early-career international pig scientists and their cutting-edge research to the Australasian pork industry. The scholarship will provide travel support to promising early-career scientists for the presentation of their work at the APSA conference. Applications for the award will open in February 2019 and close on May 1, 2019. If you, or someone you know, is eligible and would love to attend APSA 2019 please visit http://www.apsa.asn.au/Awards/ InternationalTravelScholarship.aspx for further information and to apply. As always, the APSA conference would be impossible if it were not for the continued generosity of our sponsors. The APSA Committee would sincerely like to thank the joint principle sponsors: Australian Pork Limited (APL) and the Australasian Pork Research Institute Limited (APRIL); the diamond gala dinner sponsor: DSM; gold sponsors: BASF, EW Nutrition, Feedworks, JEFO Australia and SunPork Fresh Foods; silver sponsors: AB Vista, BIOMIN, Evonik, Kemin Industries, Lucta, Phytobiotics, Rivalea, SARDI/PIRSA and Lallemand; bronze sponsors: Alltech Lienert Australia and Aunir; APSA Medal sponsor: SunPork Solutions; and media sponsors: Australian Pork Newspaper and Pork Journal. A number of opportunities are still available for silver and bronze sponsorship. Contact Kate Murphy at apsa@yrd.com.au for further details. The organising Committee hope that you will be able to join us to celebrate the Year of the Pig and APSA in this great location at the Hilton Hotel, Adelaide.

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Commercialised Pork CRC research delivered Addressing the 2019 ‘Pig Production – Science into Practice’ course at the University of Adelaide’s Roseworthy campus, Charles Rikard-Bell, Manager, Commercialisation and Research Impact with Pork CRC, explained how early Pork CRC research generated commercial products to provide income to Pork CRC going forward. Dr Rikard-Bell delivered two case studies to the audience of 45 undergraduates and industry participants, including pork producers from across Australia and New Zealand. He explained how early Pork CRC research into near infrared spectrometry calibrations and sow enrichment blocks had been commercialised with partners Aunir and Ridley Agriproducts to provide an income stream to Pork CRC. Dr Rikard-Bell said that AusScan’s unique NIR calibrations provided invaluable information for nutritionists and producers. “The calibrations enable nutritionists to accurately predict the digestible energy of cereal grains to more precisely formulate pig diets and producers now have a measure to help them assess parcels of grain for their digestible energy levels before purchase,” he said. Reactive lysine calibrations provided nutritionists with an assessment of available lysine which can be destroyed in the by-product due to processing procedures. These calibrations, developed by Pork CRC, are now being used by feed mills, nutritionists and producers around the world. “AusScan global NIR scan numbers are increasing every year as the value of the calibration is realised,” Dr RikardBell noted. The sow enrichment block was developed out of Pork CRC Program One research into how nutritional strategies could reduce aggression in group housed sows. “The enrichment block changed the behaviour of newly mixed, unfamiliar sows by minimising harmful behaviour and increasing contentment,” he said. The sow enrichment block offers an outlet for the sow to naturally forage and suits a range of housing systems, including fully and partially slatted systems unlike other forms of enrichment such as straw which blocks drains. “The Ridley Sow Enrichment Block

Top: The Ridley Sow Enrichment Block was developed out of Pork CRC Program One research into how nutritional strategies could reduce aggression in group housed sows. Above: Piglet Buddy is an appetite and feed intake enhancer developed out of Pork CRC Program Two and now marketed by BEC. is now successfully marketed in Australia, with USA, Canada and Europe currently being investigated for distribution opportunities, while an international patent is pending,” Dr Rikard-Bell said. Piglet Buddy, an appetite and feed intake enhancer developed out of Pork CRC Program Two and marketed by BEC, is achieving excellent sales in the Korean market.

BEC will register Piglet Buddy for distribution in Vietnam later this year. According to Dr Rikard-Bell, early Pork CRC supported research indicated that adding Piglet Buddy reduced feed costs. “Simple weaner diets containing Piglet Buddy performed similarly for growth and feed efficiency to more complex and expensive commercial diets,” he said.

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uthenticity, we are told, is now a critical element in changing consumer attitudes towards meat consumption. At the Australian pig science conference in 2017, Dr Darryl D’Souza in his paper, ‘Consumers want pork with adjectives’ said that “pork is a good experience, when the consumer acquires the product in the expectation that they will enjoy it.”

Later, at the same event, Dr Heather Bray from Adelaide University, in her paper ‘What are they thinking? Consumer attitudes to meat production’ detailed opinions expressed by shoppers at major retail outlets. More recently Pork Journal attended an industry conference on antimicrobial use/reduction and a representative from ‘big retail’ Lauren McKenzie, Manager for sustainability supply from Coles, spoke about ‘What is important to consumers’ and the shifting demographics in Australia towards younger and more aware meat eaters. In answer to the question ‘What’s important to customers in their food’ Lauren stated, that “health, freshness, taste, quality, environmentally friendly production, being Australian and authentic were paramount considerations.” Pork Journal has been interested in the Melanda Park Free Range Pork initiative for some time. We got to meet Matt Simmons, who, with his partner Sue and family, run the growing Melanda Park operation, at

Mr Bailie’s Butcher shop in the trendy food area of Rozelle in Sydney’s inner west (see Nov/Dec 2018 issue of Pork Journal). He was delivering ‘grown to order’ whole carcasses in the busy period just before Christmas. We asked to visit the farm and subsequently arranged a date in mid February 2019. On that day, February, 13 the temperature in Sydney reached 36 degrees C so we went for an early start. Matt took us to meet the livestock in the fertile paddocks that border the Hawkesbury River system. Ebenezer, the nearest settlement to where the farm is located, is so far up the tidal Hawkesbury system that the fresh waters of the Nepean deliver a valuable resource to farmers past and present. The Melanda Park property has been in the Simmons family for more than three generations. Originally the 110 acre property grew citrus and other crops. Matt and Sue took the farm over in 2009 and after growing crops like potatoes, moved to w

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establishing the free range pig farm. In the breeding operation for the Melanda Park grow-out farm there are 150 sows which provide the stock for Melanda Park and the farm grows out to dressed carcass weights that suit the individual requirements of their growing number of retail outlets, mostly located in the Sydney region. “We deliver to quality butcher outlets from Miranda to Branxton and our regular presence at the Sydney Inner City Markets located at the old Eveleigh train sheds helps to grow our brand,” Matt said. “We start with dressed carcasses of 15/15kg moving towards 55kg and with a maximum of 65 kg. “Our own bred gilts are large White/ Landrace and we have experimented with Hampshire and Hampshire/Duroc cross (Hamroc). “The Hampshire influence seems to deliver better results in Summer with good fertilisation levels. They just seem more adaptive to an outdoor environment,” Matt explained. “A critical aspect of our breeding and farrowing program is to train the pigs to use their hutches. “We have designed our hutches to provide shade and shelter from rain but also to protect the farrowing sows from fox attacks on their piglets. The dome hutches have small walls to maximise ventilation with a large verandah area to give adequate shade. “We rotate the paddocks and try and keep plentiful fodder on the areas occupied by the pigs. They certainly know how to clean up the paddocks: residual potato plants from our days of growing them commercially still provide a treat for them. “In the past we have grown winter oats, sorghum and now cow peas in Summer which are a nitrogen fixing legume. “We run around 25 head of Friesian cattle using strip grazing and they seem to do well in our location,” Matt told Pork Journal. In 2013 Matt was awarded a Nuffield scholarship to study ‘The

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4 environmental management of outdoor pigs while maintaining authentic free range farming’. At Melanda Park Free Range he has certainly achieved that aim. He visited numerous free range operations in the UK and Europe during the course of his study period. Feed for the Melanda Park pigs is sourced from Vella Stock Feeds located at nearby Glendenning in NSW.

1. The farm kelpie keeps a watchful eye on the farm. The product passes the Pork Journal taste test. 3. Jessie Upson from Pork Journal with Teale Simmons from Melanada Park at the markets. 4. Matt and Sue Simmons built their own farm house. 5.Constant efforts to improve pigs with liquid pre/pro biotics. The pellets are fed ad libitum and Matt has been supplementing the rations with a pre/probiotic liquid mix; he is interested in all aspects of improved nutrition. “We will never achieve the levels of efficiency possible in enclosed intensive systems but we do well in the outdoor regimes we’ve established. “Our health status is very good and we have extremely low levels of disease

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and mortality by any production standards,” he said. Wandering back to the Simmons’ family homestead we notice that the promised high temperatures hadn’t occurred. “This location seems to benefit from a bit of a micro-climate and we don’t always get the really hot days that do occur in the North West during Summer,” Matt said. Certainly when Pork Journal left the farm just after midday, 20 minutes later driving down the old Windsor Road, the temperature was 10 degrees C hotter than on the property. So it is clearly established that Melanda Pork Free Range meets not only good production and welfare parameters but also consumer authenticity expectation. Another much used word in livestock and food production is ‘heritage’. In pigs this usually refers to heritage breeds but it can also point to a traditional farming heritage. The Simmons family farming ancestry goes back a long way in a region, the Hawkesbury, that was one of the first to supply the growing town of Sydney. Australia’s first Governor Phillip soon realised that the ability to find suitable farming land and growing crops and raising livestock was vital to the survival of the colony. The first free settlers arrived in Sydney in 1793 and were amongst the earliest to use the plentiful waterways to populate and farm the Hawkesbury region. Matt delivers his Melanda Free Range Pork by road these days to Mr Baillie, the butcher on the Rozelle/ Balmain border, rather than by boat, as would have been the case when supplying the area back in the colony’s early days. Matt and Sue’s children are the fourth generation of the family that have attended the local primary school in Ebeneezer, their nearest Hawkesbury ‘village’. In that small settlement, established by those early pioneers is a church that has been in continuous use since 1806 - making it Australia’s oldest place of formal European worship. The early pioneers in the Hawkesbury had to clear land and with minimal resources other than good waterways, build their own housing and farms. The Simmons family home on the Melanda Park Free Range Farm was built by Matt and Sue when they were in their early twenties. The house is built in the bungalow style perfected by British colonialists in India. The wide verandahs and adobe brick walls are probably more thermally

Top: Piglets fed ad libitum from Vella Stockfeeds. Centre: The historic Hawkesbury River which flows through Melanda Park and used by early settlers helped open up the region for farmers. Above: Simple but effective shelters provide shade and protection for sows. efficient than most Australian housing stock today. All the bricks were made by Sue and Matt and it was, they admit, a serious effort, one that matches the energy displayed by those early settlers back in the late 18th Century.

So there we have it, a 21st Century farm built and developed on some of Australia’s oldest post European settlement farm land, growing pigs with authenticity and heritage, that also deliver an excellent pork product for ever more demanding consumers.

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By PETER BEDWELL Mario’s is a traditional Butcher shop located in the inner western suburb, or village, of Haberfield in Sydney. Haberfield, known as the Federation, or ‘garden ‘ suburb was the creation of John Stanton a wealthy property developer who identified a need for a middle class settlement, close to the growing Sydney business district but separated from the nearby crowded

industrialised suburbs like Leichhardt and Balmain. The four pillars of the garden suburb philosophy were, ‘prosperity, piety, sobriety, and gardening. Commencing in 1901 large houses on even bigger blocks of land were built and quickly occupied by a growing middle class. In exchange for their coin and fine Victorian virtues they got a modern sewerage system and in 1915 electricity. In a second wave of building as the suburb expanded in that a number of shops were built next to the suburbs sub station. Running a butcher shop in Sydney requires refrigeration and that dictated electricity (yes I know there are gas fridges campers). The butcher shop that is today Mario’s was initially (and for much of its subsequent life very much an Anglo oriented enterprise, as were its clientele.

In the 1950s/60s/70s a new wave of people adopted Haberfield as their home, the Italians. They bought a food revolution to the area, which still prevails today – there are foodie tourist trips to Haberfield’s shops and restaurants. The little butcher shop has gone through many entities in its 100 years plus existstance including closing down for a while as the power of big retail drained the purses and wallets of suburbs like Haberfield. However, in late 2002 Mario Pennisi and his wife revitalized the shop, firstly by retuning to the traditional service oriented traditional butcher skills, then gradually introducing products that suited of the cosmopolitan nature of the Haberfield village. In Haberfield’s main shopping area up the hill from Mario’s there are Italian, French, Japanese, Chinese, Thai and lately Korean restaurants. Mario has stuck to the traditional

Working alongside Mario is another local lad, Aaron McCullum who is of a younger generation that enjoys working in a traditional butcher shop. In the line of little shops that were built along with the sub station there is a trendy hipster café, and the once bottle shop on the corner is now a high end designer dress shop and further along are a number of ‘wellness’ oriented enterprises. In all of this Mario’s is a haven of established tradition that suits the ever-expanding food tastes of one of Sydney’s most affluent areas. APSA_Advert_2019.pdf 1 06-Dec-18 1:01:44 PM

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Roseworthy pig production course serves up a taste of science ‘Pig Production – Science into Practice’, an annual course designed to raise understanding of pig production, from conception through to processing and the management required in between, was held at the University of Adelaide’s Roseworthy campus from February 4 to 14. Supported by Pork CRC and Australian Pork Limited, the course was co-ordinated and taught by the University’s Senior Lecturer (pigs), Dr Will van Wettere, and attended by 45 people, comprising 21 University of Adelaide undergraduates and 24 industry representatives, including producers from South Australia, Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and New Zealand. The course covered topics as varied as reproductive physiology, breeding herd management, effluent management, nutrition, health, behaviour and welfare and included visits to a piggery, abattoir and Al centre and practical demonstrations on Al, heat detection, sample collection and disease diagnosis. Dr van Wettere said new content for this year included a special session from APL guest speakers Andrew Robertson, Steve Miller, Denise Woods and Grantley Butterfield, which focussed on environmental management of piggeries, APIQ, product marketing, domestic and international pig markets and other legislative issues. Dr Charles Rikard-Bell, Manager, Commercialisation and Research Impact with Pork CRC, provided two case studies to explain how early Pork CRC research into NIRS calibrations and sow enrichment blocks had been commercialised with partners Aunir and Ridley Agriproducts to provide income to Pork CRC. In addition to APL and Pork CRC presenters, valuable contributions were made by Tony Edwards and his ACE Livestock Consulting team, plus Drs Alice Weaver, Kate Plush, Emma Greenwood and Stephan Tait and Professors Paul Hughes and Frank Dunshea. Dr van Wettere also noted and thanked Graham Reu of Sabor and also Big River Pork for allowing students to visit their facilities and learn the latest in AI and processing. “On a learning level, particular

highlights of this year’s course were seeing how well the undergraduate students and industry participants interacted and worked together to solve pig production related problems, with some of their discoveries and the outcomes very likely to make their way

back into herds at various levels,” Dr van Wettere said. “Socially, the highlight was the Pork CRC barbecue on the final evening, which showcased sensational Gumshire pork from the Barossa Valley,” he concluded.

At the 2019 Roseworthy course were (LtoR) Pork CRC Manager, Dr Charles Rikard-Bell, Commercialisation and Research Impact; Dr Will van Wettere, course co-ordinator and teacher, University of Adelaide and participants Dr Valentina Alexa and Valentin Cusnir, both of Alexa Piggery, Tara, Queensland.

Nominations open for ICM Agrifood Awards Nominations are now open for the ICM Agrifood Awards, which recognise and acknowledge the outstanding work of two early career scientists or technologists. The awardees will have achieved substantial peer/industry recognition for their work in a field critical to continued improvement of the overall Australian food sector in the past five years. Winners each receive $5000, sponsored by ICM Agribusiness, one of Australia’s major agribusiness groups. The Awards are administered by the Academy. The Selection Committee will assess all eligible nominations against the following key criteria, that the nominee has:

• demonstrated excellence, innovation and impact in a field related to food and agriculture in Australia • been acknowledged by peers for outstanding contributions to the food and agriculture sector in the past five years • advanced the standing of the broad profession of agriculture and food The nominee must be 40 years or under on the first day of the year in which the award is made (with allowance made for career breaks due to family or carer responsibilities). Nominations close at 12pm AEST on Friday April 12. For more information, visit https:// www.applied.org.au/programs-andawards/icm-agrifood-awards/.

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Research grant to help improve stress resilience in pigs By BRENDON CANT

Communications Manager Australasian Pork Research Institute Limited, The University of Melbourne, The University of Queensland, SunPork Solutions and Rivalea Australia have secured an Australian Research Council Linkage grant to support a $900,000 research project to improve pig welfare by modulating stress resilience. ARC funding for the three-year project, ‘Early stress experiences and stress resilience in pigs’, was $450,000 with an additional $449,393 cash from other partners, of which $100,000 was from APRIL. APRIL CEO and Chief Scientist John Pluske said the ARC grant was very significant, with improving pig welfare a hot button issue in the Australasian pork industry. “It marks the first instance of APRIL, on behalf of its members, successfully leveraging external funding for a major research project of industry-wide relevance,” Professor Pluske said. “APRIL’s vision is for collaborative pork industry research, focused on industry led priorities, leading to timely generation and adoption of outcomes able to ensure sustainability and profitability of Australasian pork producers. “This project, backed by international collaboration, will have a global impact on new knowledge and improved husbandry,” he said. Paul Hemsworth, Animal Welfare Science Centre, The University of Melbourne, and Alan Tilbrook, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, said the project would examine stress resilience in pigs and generate knowledge on early life management to endow stress resilience in pigs, with expected benefits for their welfare, health, productivity and subsequent farm profitability.” “Modern pig farming is a major source of food, providing substantial nutritional, social and economic benefits for Australia and the world,” Professor Hemsworth said. “Animal welfare is of increasing concern to the public, consumers and pork producers and stress vulnerability is an animal health and production problem

LtoR: Charles Rikard-Bell, Dennis Mutton and John Pluske. in the life of the commercial pig.” Project investigators are Professor Paul Hemsworth (The University of Melbourne); Professor Alan Tilbrook (The University of Queensland); Dr Jeremy Marchant Forde (USDA Agricultural Research Service, USA); Associate Professor Roger Rassool (The University of Melbourne) and Professor Jean-Loup Rault (University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna). The investigators agree that prior stressful experiences early in life may

strengthen an animal’s resistance to subsequent stressors. Professor Hemsworth said reducing farm animal stress would have substantial economic and social benefits, because stress reduced animal welfare, productivity and health. “Importantly, public animal welfare concerns can dramatically affect welfare-based purchasing decisions and curtail farm profitability and the continued use of specific animal practices,” he noted.

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Nor-Grape 80, an efficient tool for tackling seasonal infertility in pigs By JAFAR PAZANI, Technical Manager, MedirAlis Pty Ltd Seasonal infertility, also known as summer infertility, is a major economic problem for the Australian pork industry. It is indicated through numerous studies that this phenomenon mainly impairs the reproductive performance of the sow. During summer and early autumn, 3 to 7% lower fertility has been indicated, lowering the reproductive rates of pork farms and resulting in significant financial losses. Although the understanding of summer infertility is incomplete, it is known that altered and inappropriate photoperiods and high ambient temperatures (heat stress) are two of its prominent causes in industrial

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pork production. Amongst the reasons that makes pigs particularly sensitive to elevated temperature are the lack of functional sweat glands and the thick layer of subcutaneous fat, causing them to be poor thermoregulators. A big part of summer infertility originates at cell level, through a disruption of the oxidative balance. In a basic level of physiology, high ambient temperatures known as heat stress impairs successful development of follicles, oocyte maturation, embryos development, foetal growth and though the female fertility. It is indicated that heat stress increases oxidative stress within cells; and it is, in fact, the oxidative stress causing the failure of embryo development. Reactive free radicals such as ROS, the product of oxidative stress attack the parts of cells such as proteins, DNA, and cell membranes through the process of oxidation. High levels of ROS are extremely disruptive to cellular functions causing damages to membrane integrity, structural changes to proteins and damages to nucleic acids. Most common consequences of seasonal infertility are delayed oestrous, reduced pregnancy maintenance and low litter sizes. It has been determined that the reproduction capability of female mammals is reduced due to lower blood level of the reproduction regulating hormones (LH, oestradiol, FSH and GnRH) throughout the summer-autumn period. Photoperiod is the main regulator of fertility in seasonal breeders detected through the effect of light on the retina which then inhibits the production of melatonin. When the lighting period is longer, as in summers, the lower excretion of melatonin will inhibit the release of GnRH which will alter LH and FSH secretion level. Moreover, melatonin is a well-recognised universal antioxidant which is due to its highly hydrophobic and hydrophilic nature, meaning it is readily passed through almost all organs and fluids. Melatonin can be found in the follicular fluid and its antioxidant properties by scavenging ROS directly improves functioning and competency of the follicle-oocyte compartment. In short, the reduction of melatonin production induced by longer days potentially reduces fertility through a disrupted hormone regulation and a lower antioxidant protection. The effects of heat stress on boarsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; sperm quality are

PRODUCT NEWS them (e.i. making them ready to neutralise free radicals once again despite having already been used). Grape polyphenols can play an important role in the reduction of summer infertility through improving the antioxidant defences and reducing oxidative damages. For instance, study results indicated that using these bioactive components improves the semen quality in the mammals, increasing the sperm motility and reducing its mortality. To bring the best of grape polyphenols for animal nutrition, Nor-Feed developed a standardised grape extract dedicated to animal nutrition, Nor-Grape 80, more than 15 years ago. Nor-Grape 80 is used worldwide by pig producers to improve antioxidant defences in swine at all stages. Moreover, Nor-Grape 80 is standardised and rich in polyphenols (80%) making it an optimal solution of targeting oxidative stress in pigs and helping to reduce summer infertility. A list of all references used in writing this article is available upon request. “Stop Heat”, an application for smartphones, developed by Nor-Feed, designed to evaluate the level of heat stress faced by pigs at farm level, is available for free on Play Store (Android) and App Store (IOs).

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temperature, they do not improve its protection at cell level, especially antioxidant protection. As discussed above, most of the damages caused by heat stress at cell level are through oxidative stress. In order to prevent performances and fertility losses in high yield animals, some more nutritional measures exist to fight back heat stress, using supplementation with vitamin A, E, C, Se (also Zn and Cu) and polyphenol-rich plant extracts. It is well established that these compounds are used by the organism as part of the antioxidant system for the neutralisation of free radicals and controlling oxidative reactions inside the cells. A focus on the diet composition regarding these ingredients is therefore of high interest in to reduce summer infertility. The discovery of the French Paradox, where scientists evidenced that a regular consumption of red wine reduces cardio-vascular diseases, shed a light on the existence of polyphenols, natural bioactive components of grapes, and their high antioxidant protection. More and more research shows that grape polyphenols can play a crucial role in the fight against oxidative stress by neutralising free radicals, protecting the cell components, but also acting in synergy with other antioxidant defences like vitamin E and C by regenerating

the other point which needs to be considered. It is proven that in mammals, scrotum and dartos muscles are specifically adapted to ensure sperm production is in a regulated environment 4 to 6°C below internal body temperature. Existence of non-pendulous scrotum in boars, unlike in rams and bulls, makes testes much closer to the body wall with a lower ability to regulate testicular temperature. This condition in boars makes this species sensitive to the effects of environmental heat stress on semen production. The boars’ inefficiency in using sweat to cool their body during high ambient temperatures exacerbates this condition. In addition, the limited endogenous antioxidant systems in mammalian sperm and the loss of repair mechanisms during spermatogenesis render their DNA particularly vulnerable to oxidative damage. Boar sperm is likely to be more susceptible to oxidative damage due to the relatively high unsaturated fatty acids in the plasma membrane and low antioxidant capacity in seminal plasma. Based on these facts and the results of preliminary studies in pigs, the probability of DNA damage in boar sperm caused by oxidative stress resulting from heat stress exposure has been discussed in a paper published by CSIRO in 2017. This study concluded that the fertilisation of oocytes by heat stressinduced, DNA-damaged sperm would highly probably impair subsequent embryo development. Such delayed embryo development or early embryonic death, through disruption of the implantation, would cause pregnancy loss. Australian pork farms have been successfully using some managemental and nutritional tools to tackle summer infertility. Good ambient management including proper lighting and wellmanaged ventilation, air conditioning and cooling systems are very efficient measures to reduce the effects of summer infertility. For optimal heat stress management, cooling the animals is the first critical step, but managing the diet through providing pigs with highly metabolisable energy sources (higher in fats, lower in carbohydrates) and wellbalanced concentrated feed as well as rehydrating them well to support them is just as important. However, whilst these solutions help the animal to cope with the high

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Many good reasons to visit VIV Asia 2019 There are many good reasons to visit VIV Asia, the international animal proteins trade fair that returns to Bangkok, Thailand, from March 13-15, 2019. VIV Asia 2019 takes place at the big BITEC exhibition centre in Bangkok. The show is Asia’s outstanding feed-to-food event covering all species and every part of the animal protein value chain. It is also extremely international in scope. Visitors to the most recent edition in 2017 came from 126 countries. This time there will be 1,250 exhibitors from around 60 countries, including Asia, Europe and North and south America. Among them you will find big-name global market leaders and regional as well as national Asian players of growing importance, displaying the latest products and services for all animal protein producers and processors. Every part centre will be filled by stands, with an increase of 30%cin net display area compared with the previous edition in 2017. VIV Asia 2019 is where animal protein industry executives from throughout the Asian region will meet the experienced and reliable suppliers they need for their business. The visitors themselves will be representing forward-thinking businesses active in the sectors of meat, eggs, milk and

aquaculture. The leaders of many of Asia’s most prominent food companies as well as directors and managers of animal protein production and processing operations are invited to attend and benefit from so-called VIV Industry Leaders priority treatment. Many innovations will be displayed on the show’s stands. Clues to the wealth of new products waiting to be introduced at VIV Asia 2019 can be found from entries on the new VIV Online 24/7 website initiative from VIV worldwide (accessible through www. viv.net). Within the registration page for show visitors now at www.vivasia.nl there is also online booking to attend the extensive array of conferences and seminars taking place at VIV Asia 2019. Most conferences and technical seminars held at BITEC are in English. Wednesday March 13, brings a High-Tech Animal Health conference, a feed-oriented pig conference, pig health and advanced pig farming sessions and an aquafeed extrusion short course. The Wednesday programme also has a session on Poultry Trends and a meeting by the World Veterinary Poultry Association with its Thailand branch, describing poultry meat as ‘the value protein for one’s health’.

Thursday March 14 opens with Asian Food & Tech Trends tying in with the expanded Food Engineering aspect of the exhibition. The same day will have a separate Food Engineering conference. Other choices include the International Pig Forum Asia and a focus on strategies to replace antibiotic growth promoters. Additionally there is Aquatic Asia 2019 for the aquaculture sector and a conference on Asian feed and food safety. Thursday’s conferences further feature a meeting by the Federation of Asian Veterinary Associations (FAVA) to cover antimicrobial resistance ‘from science to policy’. On Friday March 15 the conference program concludes with a whole-day meat industry conference called Meat 360°, in which Thai experts discuss meat market trends and innovations. VIV Asia 2019 is a central point of a feed-to-food week in Bangkok. The week begins with the 6th Global Feed and Food Congress at the city’s Shangri-La Hotel before VIV Asia starts at BITEC. Meanwhile, a number of other business meetings will be held in the city by media partners and companies at various locations and on different dates of the same week. It all confirms Bangkok’s international attraction as the place to meet for people from around the world who want to talk business in a relaxed and leisurely atmosphere. There is also the strong point of convenience, starting with the VIV Asia location at BITEC which is within easy reach of the major attractions and hotels in Bangkok city centre. One of the easiest transport options to it from downtown is by BTS Skytrain. Visitors to BITEC by Skytrain arrive at BangNa station, where Exit 1 leads them to a footbridge for a short and safe walk directly into the show’s main entrance. Various international hotels in the city also offer a shuttle bus service. What is more, people arriving from abroad need only about 30 minutes to travel to BITEC from Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport. Ease of access into VIV Asia 2019 includes the online pre-registration available now on www.vivasia.nl, that allows visitors to enter the show through multiple entry points without wasting any time in queues. VIV Asia website www.vivasia.nl or at www.viv.net.

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AusScan energising feed grain evaluation By BRENDON CANT

Communications Manager Pork CRC and APRIL AusScan calibrations for pig faecal digestible energy and ileal DE for cereal grains have been upgraded on completion of Pork CRC Project 4B-117, ‘Strengthening the AusScan pig DE, DE intake index NIR calibrations’. The project determined pig ileal and faecal DE and faecal DE intake index of 67 new grains: 22 wheat, 13 barley, 8 triticale, 4 sorghum and 20 maize samples. Improved accuracy and robustness were also achieved by adding this data, according to Charles Rikard-Bell, Manager Commercialisation and Research Impact, with Australasian Pork Research Institute Limited (APRIL). “The NIR calibrations show significant improvement due to the larger number of new samples and range of cereals added,” Dr Rikard-Bell said. Since the last update in 2013, significant new cereal data has been added to the calibration dataset. The revised calibrations have improved the faecal DE prediction by 22 per cent and can now also predict the faecal DE of maize. The 2018 updates for broiler apparent metabolisable energy (AME) and intake includes 24 low energy Australian wheat samples and 16 wheat samples imported from the northern hemisphere, bringing the total nonAustralian samples to 31. The AME study was commissioned by APRIL at the Poultry Research Station, Roseworthy South Australia. “The additional samples from the northern hemisphere support the findings that the updated broiler AME calibrations can be used to analyse cereals grown outside of Australia,” Dr Rikard-Bell said. The revised calibrations will be available through AusScan in early 2019. AusScan Online is a revolutionary online platform giving access to unique near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) calibrations for feed grains. AusScan Online continues to grow in Australia and globally, with total scans through Aunir UK exceeding

11,000 for the 2018 September quarter. In 2017/18, Australian sub-licensees scanned almost 4000 samples per month, of which 75 per cent were for cereal energy, unlike the international market in which 80 per cent of scans requested are for soyabean meal reactive lysine. Protein rich feedstuffs such as soybean meal are often subjected to heat processing before inclusion in monogastric diets. Dr Rikard-Bell said that measuring the content of reactive lysine, or the portion of lysine that is chemically intact as a percentage of total lysine in soybean meal, can act as a measure of heat damage during processing. “AusScan’s reactive lysine calibration is a measure of the soybean meal quality and it’s proved an extremely valuable calibration for nutritionists and feedmills around the world when formulating feeds with soybean meal,” Dr Rikard-Bell said. In 2018 AusScan also upgraded the reactive lysine calibration for soybean meal, including 24 samples of soybean

meal processed in China. Dr Rikard-Bell said the upgrade had further improved the calibration robustness by 22.7 per cent and the accuracy by 23.6 per cent. “With an AusScan agency soon to be launched in China, this is welcome news for Chinese nutritionists and feed millers.” AusScan has successfully established Ingot Check, an international online quality assurance program, with all Australian integrators and laboratories using AusScan. The scheme involves monthly scanning of samples of ground wheat, soybean and canola with known NIRS and wet chemistry values. Each NIR machine is compared to the Aunir mother machines and a monthly report is used to indicate the variance over time and between laboratories. Dr Rikard-Bell said the Ingot Check service had received excellent feedback, providing laboratories with an independent, quality-assured monthly quality assessment.

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Pig Nutrition Notes – Volume Two by Ioannis Mavromichalis Released by 5M Publishing from Sheffield in the UK in late November 2018, this new volume of Pig Nutrition Notes (Volume 2) is authored by industry expert Ioannis Mavromichalis. The book is aimed at the pig industry professional. Piglet Nutrition Notes Volume 2 provides a quick look-up advisory guide on common practical issues in pig production. The second volume continues the series of Piglet Nutrition Notes by providing even more practical information regarding commercial piglet formulas, feeding practices, feed manufacturing, and additives. Each chapter is based on combined research and empirical evidence distilled through the practical, commercial experiences of Dr Mavromichalis through his inter-

national consulting practice. The handy sized guide with 104 pages of nutritional advice is available from Amazon at US $24.95 or from the publisher direct. You can go to www.5mpublishing.com Ioannis Mavromichalis holds degrees from MSc (Kansas State University, swine nutrition) and a PhD (University of Illinois, monogastric nutrition). Dr Mavromichalis is a worldwide active expert in the area of applied animal nutrition. Since 2008, he has owned the consulting firm Ariston Nutrition. He consults with major pig, poultry, dairy, feed, and additives producers in Americas, Europe, and Asia. Piglet Nutrition Notes (Volume 1) by the same author, was published by 5M in 2016.

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