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Screen Gilts for Feet and Leg Disorders 

Feb 15, 2005 - by Ken Stalder and Tom Baas, Extension swine specialists, Iowa State University

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 

Jan 15, 2005 - By Ken Stalder, Iowa State University Extension swine specialist; and John Mabry, director of the Io

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 

Jan 15, 2005 - by Dale Miller, Editor

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 

Jan 15, 2005 - by Ken Stalder and Tom Baas Extension Swine Specialists, Iowa State University

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...

2004 Swine Research Review 

Dec 15, 2004

2004 Swine Research Review 

Dec 15, 2004

2004 Swine Research Review 

Dec 15, 2004

2004 Swine Research Review 

Dec 15, 2004

Swine Genetics Program 

Nov 3, 2004

The 2004 Lauren Christian Swine Genetics Symposium will be held Dec. 9 and 10 in Ames, IA...

Livestock Gene Libraries Offer Help for Reproductive Efficiency 

Nov 3, 2004

Two new livestock gene libraries developed by University of Missouri (MU) researchers may help scientists around the world identify critical genes in cattle and swine....

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