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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...

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...

2004 Swine Research Review 

Livestock Gene Libraries Offer Help for Reproductive Efficiency 

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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