Electronic Data Analysis Flings Open Doors
Paul FitzSimmons has reconfigured management guru Peter Drucker's axiom You can't manage what you can't measure. With the advances in electronic data...
In Search of the Perfect Pig
Want to start a lively discussion at your county or state fair this summer? Try this lean confidently on the showring fence, point to your favorite pig...
Workshop on Exotic Breeds
Tim Safranski is looking for exotic boars to collect to preserve genetic diversity....
Optimizing Reproductive Efficiency
Maximizing throughput or production of a pork enterprise begins with the breeding herd. In order to achieve a consistent flow of pigs, and the minimum...
Reproductive Trait Selection Guidelines
The attached poster, the third and last in the series, will help pork producers effectively screen replacement gilt candidates for quality of reproductive...
The Gold Standard of Lifetime Productivity
There is a benchmark figure on PigCHAMP's performance monitor that Minnesota veterinarian Tom Wetzell believes is overlooked when appraising sow longevity...
Screen Gilts for Feet and Leg Disorders
The attached poster is the second in a series of three pictorial displays developed to help pork producers more effectively screen replacement gilt candidates...
Genetic, Financial Implications Of Raising Your Own Gilts
For herd health reasons, and to a lesser degree costs, many commercial pork producers are implementing internal gilt multiplication systems. Many swine...
New Genetics Drive Gilt Replacement Program
High sow mortality and culling rates drove Illinois pork producers Jim and Steve Moest to the brink about a year ago. The Moest brothers had pleaded with...
Poster Series Introduced
Sow herd mortality and culling rates have reached unacceptable levels in some herds. The attached poster is the first in a series developed to help pork...
