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This Month's Focus: Managing Variation

Variation: You Can Manage It, But You Can't Avoid It

By John F. Patience Prairie Swine Centre Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Prior to the widespread adoption of all-in, all-out (AIAO) production systems, variation in growth was largely a cost. Pigs were sorted from pens when...

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Economic Effects Of Variation

By Brian Buhr Agricultural Economist University of Minnesota

In 1986, I had a hole-in-one at the Ames (IA) Country Club. As I was carrying on like a kid, my golf partner sat quietly in the golf cart. I thought maybe...

Top Health Produces Consistent Throughput

By John T. Waddell, DVM Sutton Veterinary Clinic Sutton, NE

Throughput, defined in terms of pork production, is the number of pigs or pounds of pork put through any given system, farm or facility. Efficiency of...

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Risk Management Webinars Offered

When asked if they were interested in an interactive, online educational series on risk management, pork producers responded with a resounding “yes.”...

Farrowing Basics Program Planned

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) is holding a Farrowing Basics program June 17-18 in the Animal Science Complex at the UNL East Campus...

Manure Entrepreneurs Aim To Turn Brown into Green

The 2008 Breimyer Seminar May 22 at the University of Missouri’s Reynolds Alumni Center focuses on turning manure, once known as waste, into something green...

Manure Handling Expo Planned for July 9

The continuing rise in chemical fertilizer prices may push crop farmers even more to use manure for their fertilization needs...


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Hog Prices Just an Anomaly?

To use an appropriate porcine question: Will demand save our bacon? When we look at the last two weeks, the answer could certainly be a resounding "Yes!" Why else would packers be aggressively chasing hogs when slaughter rates are so high? And why else...

Higher Prices Offer Little Relief

It is difficult to believe that spot market carcass prices of $67/cwt. and futures contract prices in the $70s (and $80s for the deferred contracts) can leave the pork industry in a serious financial situation. But that's the pickle in which we find ourselves this spring...

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