Swine Genome Unlocked with USDA, Pork Checkoff Investment
A team of international researchers has unlocked the genetic code for swine, which is expected to produce advancements in agriculture, medicine, conservation and evolution...
Swine Geneticist Says DNA Discoveries Can Help Alleviate Food Crisis
Rothschild, responsible for numerous inventions such as three gene tests that are leading to significant increases in pig litter size, says changes in technology have made it possible for scientists to determine the DNA sequence of all major livestock species...
Birth Weight Effects on Postnatal Growth
In the existing commercial sow populations, variation in postnatal growth performance of their offspring may be already preprogrammed before birth. Because...
Assessing Sow Removal
Support system offers objective tool to help make culling decisions. Removing sows from the breeding herd for reproductive problems becomes a relatively...
Parity's Impact On Productivity
Parity structure of the breeding herd can have a significant effect on efficiency and profitability. The objective of this first in the 2008 quarterly...
Lactating Sows Feed Themselves
New feeder design improves sow body condition and helps boost pigs-born-alive average. About three years ago, Iowa Select Farms set out to do a better...
Stalls Versus Pens
The University of Minnesota's swine research facility at Waseca, MN, compares sows housed in individual stalls vs. pens, but the jury is still out. The...
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...
Don't Mix Sows 10-14 Days after Breeding
As pork producers take up the challenge to house gestating sows in groups vs. individual stalls...
Test Tube Pigs are Now a Reality
The ability to produce pig embryos in vitro (in the laboratory environment) has been mastered at Mississippi State University...
