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Dr Conny Turni, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries and asso- ciates are doing vital Pork CRC-supported research into improving pig health, including using vaccines for common pathogens.
CRC sees challenges and solutions ahead
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outcomes have been re- ported.
We also have such peo- ple as Conny Turni at Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fish- eries and David Hamp- son and Sam Abraham at Murdoch University working on vaccines for common pathogens and Darren Trott at the Uni- versity of Adelaide and others developing means of reducing pathogen loads in sheds.
A lot is happening, but again new science and ideas will be required to enhance Australia’s future competitiveness.
Grain mysteries
The unknown is grain and feed costs.
We know they can be volatile and this is best ad- dressed when negotiating pig supply contracts.
Finding genuine alterna- tives to grains has always proven difficult, but this does not mean they do not exist, just that we need to think differently and APL is investigating a number of possibilities.
We can and should con- tinue to develop ways of better utilising grains and feeds and I expect the commercial participants in Australasian Pork Re- search Institute Limited to come up with technol- ogies that will achieve this.
We also have some large projects running at the University of Queensland to understand the effects of particle size, exogenous enzymes and fibre on feed utilisation.
These projects involve Mike Gidley, John Black and Ridley Agriproducts.
A good combination of science and industry, I think.
I have raised the ques- tion on where to next be- cause APRIL is about to finalise its strategic plan and the R&D committee will meet in in the near future to decide priorities for APRIL’s first invest- ment round.
We know we need new science across the ar- eas raised here and some brave thinking.
The answers may lie overseas.
If they do, APRIL will collaborate rather than du- plicate.
It will be a challenging but exciting time and will help accelerate Australia’s uniqueness and com- petitiveness in a rapidly evolving global industry. Global prices
To keep you in touch with what is happening elsewhere, I have shown the latest global prices in Table 1.
US and Canadian prices have risen considerably since last month due to seasonal demand (sum- mer) and increased packer capacity.
In China, price has fall-
en about 25 cents but is still above COP ($3.20/kg carcass weight).
The EU has enjoyed continual price increases through 2017.
In Australia price seems lowest in Queensland and, depending on which APL report you read, highest in WA.
All prices are for prog- eny and, as such, the price received by pro- ducers when culls are in- cluded is 7-8 cents lower than those shown in the table.
The prices are all in Australian dollars/kg car- cass weight.
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Country
Price
Australia
45-60kg carcass
3.35
60.1-75kg carcass
2.90
75.1-85kg carcass
2.82
>85kg carcass
2.74
US
2.04
Canada
1.92
Brazil
1.96
Spain
2.66
EU28
2.56
UK
2.74
China
3.89
S Korea
5.48
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Table 1