Piglet Survival A Key Performance Indicator
This second in the Quarterly Benchmarking series will focus on preweaning mortality and a new term — piglet survival...
Are Sows Being Culled for the Right Reasons?
Pork producers and breeding herd managers typically record a single reason for culling a sow. Often, they simply check a box in their recordkeeping program...
Ultrasound Offers Clearer Vision of Meat Quality
The intensive selection for increased carcass leanness has led to a decline in meat quality and an increase in consumer concerns. The quality characteristics...
Livestock Records Series Revamped
Iowa State University's Estimated Costs and Returns to various livestock feeding enterprises have been a valuable source of cost and profit data for many, many years...
How Does Your Farm Stack Up?
This first in the Quarterly Benchmarking series reinforces the importance of effectively using accurate production records. The goal of this new series...
Before You Target 30 p/s/y Read This
The costs of achieving 30 pigs/sow/year (p/s/y) may be too high to justify, agree North American reproductive physiologists. To accomplish the 30 p/s/y goal, we must ...
Terminal Sire Line
New boar line offers key production attributes. Monsanto Choice Genetics (MCG) has launched its new GX terminal sire line, offering traits for growth...
Grant Affords Development Of Swine Genome Mapping
A $10 million U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) grant is enabling members of the Swine Genome Sequencing Consortium to develop a draft sequence of the swine genome...
New Genetic Marker May Produce Larger Litters
Scientists at the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center in Clay Center, NE, have identified a genetic marker that could assist producers in selecting females for increased uterine capacity and litter size...
Niche Breeding Group Formed
A niche swine-breeding group is being formed in Iowa as an efficient way to connect people who work in sustainable hog production and pen breed sows with peers over a large area....
