ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY OF HEAVY PIG FARMING

Monitoring of pig farms on behalf of Confagricoltura Emilia-Romagna and Martini SpA.

Speakers will include:

Guido Zama – Director Confagricoltura Emilia-Romagna
Welcome greetings and introduction to the theme of the meeting

Marika De Vincenzi – Analyst / Meat team CLAL and Teseo
The pig market in the international context

G. Matteo Corvetto – Lecturer, University of Milan
Results of a nitrogen excretion survey carried out in six heavy pig farms

Fabrizio Conte – Martini Group SpA
Martini line feeds used in the project: characteristics and peculiarities

Stefano Schiavon – University of Padua Lecturer
Feeding at will and lysine requirements of heavy pigs: lifetime and slaughter performance, emissions and feeding costs

Luigi Gallo – Lecturer at the University of Padua
Novel feeds and sustainability of soybean production: spirulina microalgae as a possible substitute for soybean extract meal