March 15, 2008
Cover Story
The Key to Making Pen Gestation Work
Mar 15, 2008 12:00 PM, By Dale Miller Editor
With over 50 years of hog-raising experience under his belt, Dale Keesecker has seen and tried any number of new products and management practices. In...
This Month's Focus: Managing Feed Costs
Trial Tracks Impact Of Feeding Frequency
Mar 15, 2008 12:00 PM, By Dale Miller Editor
Aggression, body condition scores and reproductive levels were compared when sows were fed twice vs. six times/day. Kansas State University researchers...
By-Products Spur Interest in Enzymes
Mar 15, 2008 12:00 PM, By Jerry Shurson University of Minnesota St. Paul, MN
Skyrocketing feed costs has producers and nutritionists taking a closer look at enzymes to improve digestion and absorption of dietary components. There...
Aggressive Amino Acid Use Helps Offset High Feed Costs
Mar 15, 2008 12:00 PM, By David Funderburke Cape Fear Consulting, LLC Warsaw, NC
Rapidly rising feed costs has everyone looking for ways to relieve the pain. Implementing technologies designed to improve feed efficiency or reduce input...
Use Pig Age to Guide Creep Feeding
Mar 15, 2008 12:00 PM, By Lora Berg
The length of time pigs are offered creep feed has little impact on how much they will eat or weight they will gain. The durations of creep feed availability...
Using Corn Distiller's Syrup in Swine Diets
Mar 15, 2008 12:00 PM, By John Goihl Agri-Nutrition Services Shakopee, MN
Currently, dry milling ethanol plants produce primarily two co-products wet corn distiller's grains (WCDG) and corn distiller's liquid solubles (CDLS)...
All Signs Point to Mountain of Pork
Mar 15, 2008 12:00 PM, By Joe Vansickle Senior Editor
With farrowing predictions up 1-3%, total production up 2-3% and slaughter up about 5%, prospects look ominous for 2008. U.S. packers slaughtered a new-record...
Fatigue Causes Majority
Mar 15, 2008 12:00 PM, By Joe Vansickle Senior Editor
Canadian livestock consultant completes study of commercial livestock hauling mishaps. Bad weather often gets the blame, but in actuality, driver fatigue...
Smile! You're on Video Camera
Mar 15, 2008 12:00 PM, By Karen Bernick
Video monitoring supports employee training and troubleshooting efforts in sow farms. Bill Beckman suffers from a common plight facing production supervisors...
From My Perspective
Small Steps To a Turnaround
Mar 15, 2008 12:00 PM, By Dale Miller Editor
The bigger you are the harder high feed prices will hit your bottom line. Case in point Smithfield Foods' recent announcement to trim their one-million-sow...
Research Review
Assessing Sow Removal
Mar 15, 2008 12:00 PM
Support system offers objective tool to help make culling decisions. Removing sows from the breeding herd for reproductive problems becomes a relatively...
Porcine Circovirus Grows More Deadly
Mar 15, 2008 12:00 PM, By Joe Vansickle Senior Editor
Over time, the common virus has become noticeably more pathogenic. Circovirus, a virus that exists worldwide, has turned more dangerous as it has mutated...
Pork Checkoff Offers Monthly Porcine Circovirus Updates
Mar 15, 2008 12:00 PM
Timely answers to questions about porcine circovirus-associated disease (PCVAD) are available by simply clicking on the pork checkoff's new PCVAD Web...
Hot Water Alternative
Mar 15, 2008 12:00 PM, By Suzanne Deutsch
Hot water pads are joining the short list of products designed to keep pigs snug and warm. The challenge of keeping pigs warm and cozy during the two...
Veterinarians on Call
Mycotoxin It's All in the Feed
Mar 15, 2008 12:00 PM, By Paul Armbrecht, DVM Lake City, IA
Mycotoxins are fungi capable of producing mold on virtually all small grains, including corn. The term mycotoxin means poison from a fungi. Only about...
Technology Watch
Product Approved For Mycoplasma
Mar 15, 2008 12:00 PM
Long-acting product gains new endorsement to treat common swine respiratory disease. Pork producers have been given a new weapon in the fight against...
