Ways to Control Costs
Tough times call for producers to conserve resources and capitalize on profit opportunities. Producers can take advantage of these 10 steps to control...
8 Tips for Tough Times
Steve Meyer, founder of Paragon Economics, Inc., Des Moines, IA, led off acknowledging that the challenges facing pork producers are different than they've...
Use Pig Age to Guide Creep Feeding
The length of time pigs are offered creep feed has little impact on how much they will eat or weight they will gain. The durations of creep feed availability...
Using Corn Distiller's Syrup in Swine Diets
Currently, dry milling ethanol plants produce primarily two co-products wet corn distiller's grains (WCDG) and corn distiller's liquid solubles (CDLS)...
The Key to Making Pen Gestation Work
With over 50 years of hog-raising experience under his belt, Dale Keesecker has seen and tried any number of new products and management practices. In...
Design Affects Creep Feed Intake, Wastage
Creep feeder design can make a difference in the proportion of pigs that actually consume feed () and the amount of feed that is wasted. Kansas State...
Hog Barns Don't Come with Owner's Manuals
An effective operations manual can help barn staffs keep production facilities running smoothly. Pork producers commonly invest hundreds of thousands...
Free Stall Eases Feeding, AI Chores
New hoop barn helps achieve consistent sow body condition and fits with organic production standards. Three years ago, Organic Prairie pork producer Tom...
Electronic Sow Feeding Lessons Learned
In 2005, Jimmy Tosh felt the time was right to step away from gestation stalls in favor of pen gestation with an electronic sow feeding system. When James...
Monitor Water For Health
Monitoring pigs' water intake could be the difference between spotting health problems early and missing the signs until catastrophe strikes. Water is...
