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Table 2. Measurements on farm.
Inclusion of Aromex Pro into the diets of entire male pigs improved growth, reduced mortality and produced a leaner pig.
Benefits of Aromex Pro
Better performance, more lean meat:
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• increases nutrient digestibility
• improves feed conversion rate
• enhances body weight gain
• boosts stress tolerance
• demonstrated P2 reduction
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AROMEX Pro is a phy- Trial 1 vs Aromex Pro
ally determined, mortality Pro group distribution
togenic feed additive with proven plant ac- tive ingredients which enhance secretion of digestive enzymes and increase nutrient digest- ibility.
100g/MT and Control Trial 2 Aromex Pro 100g/ MT vs Aromex Pro 200g/ MT.
noted throughout the trial. Pigs were marked ac- cording to group for each of the three control and treatment groups in both
shifted such that a more uniform and tighter distri- bution was produced.
Aromex Pro also im- proves animal stress tol- erance and reduces am- monia production and emission.
The animals were ap- proximately 20-30kg of weight on arrival to farm and received diets appro- priate to stage – control or treatment, throughout the grower-finisher stages.
trials.
The weight distribution
All these actions to- gether optimise the use of daily feed nutrients for growth and muscle accre- tion, carcass composition, meat quality and shelf life.
Weights were individu-
between the groups in Trial 1 at the start of the trial demonstrated the two groups were very similar, however over the 75 days of treatment the Aromex
Aromex Pro at 200g/MT of feed produced superior results.
Material and methods
In the conditions of these studies, inclusion of Aromex Pro into the diets of entire male pigs improved growth, reduced mortality and produced a leaner pig.
Two commercial grow- finisher farm trials, one run for 75 days and the second for 53-57 days, were carried out in Queensland to assess the benefits of Aromex Pro, at 100g/MT and 200g/MT feed respectively.
The pigs average daily gain, P2 measurements and mortality during both trials were recorded.
Each trial included 1200 entire male pigs, 600 for control and 600 for treat- ment, 200 pigs were ran- domly allotted for each trial control and treat- ment on delivery to farm in three consecutive de- liveries, Control 0g/MT
Chart 2: Trial 1 Final Weight Variation – a reduction of P2 back fat was observed in both trials.
Time ticking for pork takeover
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JBS’s ability would be further enhanced if it has visibility over the ultimate
I understand BE Camp- bell remains ready, willing and able to step up if the JBS acquisition is unable to proceed.
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This is due to a combina-
less favourable terms, or to foreclose access to third party service kills at DVP post-acquisition.
close access to key inputs of fresh pork by restricting the supply of third party service kills or providing access on less favourable terms.
end-user of the fresh pork downstream.
tion of factors, including customers will often have very specific car- cass weight requirements – meaning pigs need to be slaughtered once they reach optimum slaughter weight and fresh pork has a short shelf life, relative to beef or lamb.
Noting JBS may in- crease the use of domestic pork within its Primo business, the ACCC is concerned that JBS may have the incentive to lev- erage its increased own- ership of the number of export accredited abattoirs in Australia, together with its operations in various businesses along the pork supply chain.
Consequently, the amount of fresh pork available in Australia may diminish, resulting in rival smallgoods producers being unable to source a key input and the price of fresh pork would increase, resulting in increased costs for Primo’s small- goods rivals.
The proposed acquisi- tion therefore may provide JBS the ability to increase the price of service kills, and in turn increase the price of a key input – fresh pork – for smallgoods pro- ducers and pork whole- salers.
Pigs therefore need to be slaughtered on certain days of the week to meet customers’ timing de- mands for weekly peak sale periods.
The key input for small- goods is pork, which may be fresh and frozen.
JBS owns the Seven Point Pork abattoir at Port Wakefield in South Aus- tralia, while Rivalea owns two abattoirs – DVP at Laverton in Victoria and one at Corowa in NSW.
Rivalea is one of the largest pig producers in Australia and currently supplies fresh pork to some smallgoods man- ufacturers, including those that compete with Primo.
Proximity of the abattoir to the pig farm is also an important consideration, with a pig’s weight loss and stress increasing the longer it travels.
While frozen pork can be imported, fresh pork can only be acquired do- mestically due to biosecu- rity regulations.
Rivalea does not manu- facture smallgoods.
According to the ACCC, due to the lack of suit- able alternatives, many pigs within 350km or four hours road travel of DVP – which require export accredited quality service kills – are slaughtered at DVP.
Though some small- goods products can use imported pork, such as boneless ham and bacon, others require fresh pork, bone-in leg ham as an ex- ample.
Post-acquisition, JBS would own three of the seven export accredited abattoirs in Australia and three of four in south- eastern Australia – South Australia, Victoria and NSW.
Domestic pork produc- tion has remained constant in Australia for the past 20 years, despite consump- tion of pork products al- most doubling in the same period.
The ACCC has ex- pressed its concern that JBS’s majority ownership of DVP and the lack of suitable alternatives for pig producers in proximity to DVP would provide JBS with the ability to either frustrate access by raising prices or offering
According to the ACCC, market participants are concerned that through its increased ownership of export accredited abattoirs in Australia – southeast Australia in particular – JBS may have the ability to indirectly increase its rival smallgoods pro- ducers’ price of or fore-
The ACCC is concerned that JBS’s increased own- ershipandcontrolofasig- nificant proportion of ab- attoir capacity would limit service kill customers’ ability to switch to a non- JBS owned abattoir.
NSW meat wholesaler BE Campbell – family owned since 1969 – was the unsuccessful bidder for Rivalea and it had the ACCC pre-approval for thepurchase.
The vast majority of this growth in demand has been filled by imports.
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