August 15, 2007
Cover Story
Sow Housing Debated
Aug 15, 2007 12:00 PM, By Joe Vansickle Senior Editor
A University of Illinois animal scientist offers support for individual stalls, while a Canadian scientist provides an overview of group sow housing research....
Features
Exercise Improves Bone Density
Aug 15, 2007 12:00 PM, By Joe Vansickle Senior Editor
Trials of encouraged-exercise in gestating stall-housed sows improved bone density, bone-breaking strength and piglet survivability, but it had no real...
One Size Does Not Fit All
Aug 15, 2007 12:00 PM, By Dale Miller Editor
The variation in body size of sows needs greater consideration before gestation stalls are abandoned altogether. Pork producers should ask themselves...
Pen Gestation Isn't Complicated
Aug 15, 2007 12:00 PM, By Dale Miller Editor
The general manager of the country's largest pen gestation system says producers shouldn't fear group sow housing. Bob Ivey wanted to leave the standing-room-only...
Accident Response Plan
Aug 15, 2007 12:00 PM, By Joe Vansickle Senior Editor
North Carolina's largest integrator has formalized a means of dealing with live hog-hauling accidents to ensure animal well-being. Murphy-Brown's Animal...
Apparatus Eases Pig Moving Chore
Aug 15, 2007 12:00 PM, By Suzanne Deutsch
Canadian producer's invention makes moving pigs a one-person job. Mary Haugh was desperate. Her husband had just suffered two heart attacks in three days,...
Parity Distribution Will Affect Your Bottom Line
Aug 15, 2007 12:00 PM, By Ken Stalder Iowa State University Ames, IA
This third article in the benchmarking series focuses on productivity differences among sow parity groups and the cost of a PRRS outbreak. We continue...
Carthage Group Expands Outreach Services
Aug 15, 2007 12:00 PM, By Joe Vansickle Senior Editor
Plans are to improve office space and add training and educational facilities for visitors from the United States and abroad. Carthage Veterinary Services...
Making ESF Work
Aug 15, 2007 12:00 PM, By Dale Miller Editor
Field studies at the University of Pennsylvania track application and performance of electronic sow feeders (ESF). Consulting veterinarian Tom Parsons...
My Perspective
Stalls or Pens? Ask the Sows! |
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Aug 15, 2007 12:00 PM, By Dale Miller Editor Is the move to abandon stalls for gestating sows a done deal? Not in some people's minds. Listen close and you'll hear a murmur spreading in the pork... |
Vets on Call
Lameness, Arthritis Challenges Persist
Aug 15, 2007 12:00 PM, By Bill Minton, DVM Chickasaw, OH
Look beyond disease for solutions to structural issues. Most hogs are raised on some type of concrete flooring. These hard surfaces place structural demands...
News & Views
Study Assesses Checkoff's Value
Aug 15, 2007 12:00 PM, By Joe Vansickle Senior Editor
The return on pork checkoff programs greatly outweighs the costs. In a recently completed study of the economic value of pork checkoff programs, economists...
Pork Board Picks Leader
Aug 15, 2007 12:00 PM
A Wisconsin pork producer has been elected president of the National Pork Board. Lynn Harrison from Elk Mound, serving his second, three-year term on...
Court Dismisses Challenges to Air Emissions Agreements
Aug 15, 2007 12:00 PM
The National Pork Producers Council applauds a federal court ruling dismissing challenges to the validity of air emissions agreements between the Environmental...
Gestation Pen Design: Space, Simplicity
Aug 15, 2007 12:00 PM, By Joe Vansickle Senior Editor
A new sow gestation pen design is aimed at protecting market access. Doug Groth, DVM, says the new pen configuration for sow gestation at Bluff Road Genetics...
Livestock Handling Expert Promotes Accident Reduction Program
Aug 15, 2007 12:00 PM
Independent livestock handling specialist Jennifer Woods of Alberta, Canada, says the United States needs a national program to address livestock hauling...
Feed Medication Upgraded
Aug 15, 2007 12:00 PM
Weight restriction has been removed for feeding the antibiotic to swine. Pfizer Animal Health's Lincomix, the only feed medication product approved to...
