National Hog Farmer

Electronic Data Analysis Flings Open Doors 

Aug 15, 2005 - by Dale Miller, Editor

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...

It Boggles the Mind 

Aug 15, 2005 - by Dale Miller, Editor dpmiller@primediabusiness.com

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...

Sow Housing Systems Compared 

Jun 15, 2005 - by Joe Vansickle, Senior Editor (952) 851-4670; jvansickle@primediabusiness.com

The University of Minnesota Southern Research and Outreach Center (SROC) at Waseca has evaluated three years of sow records to compare performance of...

Producing Repeatable, Efficient Growth 

Apr 15, 2005 - by William L. Hollis, DVM Carthage Veterinary Service Ltd. Carthage, IL

Pork producers in our client base are searching for predictable, efficient growth with every insemination in the breeding barn and with every load of...

Solutions To Control Variation 

Apr 15, 2005 - by John Deen, DVM, Director, University of Minnesota Swine Center

Managing variation in pig production involves examining what can be accomplished within the current production system model. For example, if we realistically...

Throughput The Ultimate Test for Production 

Apr 15, 2005 - by Mike Brumm Northeast Research and Extension Center University of Nebraska

It sounds simple enough. Flow as many pigs as you can through a given set of facilities to maximize profits (income over expense), while at the same time...

Optimizing Reproductive Efficiency 

Apr 15, 2005 - by M. Todd See North Carolina State University

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...

The Gold Standard of Lifetime Productivity 

Mar 15, 2005 - by Debra Neutkens

There is a benchmark figure on PigCHAMP's performance monitor that Minnesota veterinarian Tom Wetzell believes is overlooked when appraising sow longevity...

Managing Sow Attrition Issues 

Mar 15, 2005 - by Tony Forshey, DVM, Archbold, OH

Whether it be nutrition, disease, weaning age, diagnostics or breeding, the common theme that affects them all, including sow longevity, is management....

Reproductive Trait Selection Guidelines 

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

The attached poster, the third and last in the series, will help pork producers effectively screen replacement gilt candidates for quality of reproductive...

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