Animal ID Setback
The National Animal Identification System (NAIS) suffered a setback in May. When members of the U.S. House of Representatives passed an $18.4 billion...
Sow Condition Scoring Guidelines
Sow herd culling and mortality rates have reached unacceptable levels in some herds. Reproductive failure is the most common reason sows are culled from...
Managing Sows In Gestation
Sow herd management is generally broken into the three phases of a sow's life gestating a litter, nursing a litter and not pregnant but getting ready...
Understanding Why Sows Are Culled
Sow culling rates have a direct correlation to the economic efficiency of a breeding herd. Some sows are culled voluntarily in an effort to improve overall...
Targeting 30 P/S/Y? Use this Checklist
Just a few years ago, a sow farm averaging 26 pigs/sow/year (P/S/Y) was considered a leading performer. But the Danes have demonstrated that more is possible,...
2005 Swine Research Review - Genetics/Reproduction
Reviewed are genetic pathways to reduce phosphorus excretion, timing for artificial insemination and genetic resistance patterns to the porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus....
Weaning Age Impact on Reproductive Performance
Pork producers in the United States shaved 9.5 days off the average age at weaning (from 28.8 days down to 19.3 days) between 1990 and 2000, according...
Human to Pig Genome Comparison Complete
A University of Illinois side-by-side comparison of the human and pig genomes has revealed remarkable similarities....
It Boggles the Mind
For those of you who are as electronically challenged as I am, take heart, the electronic gurus and computer whizzes are busily working to make things...
RFID In, Variation Out
Southern Minnesota pork producer Robert Baarsch is looking for a bigger piece of the packer pie. To get it, the CEO of Next Generation Pork has been working...
