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Understanding the Physiology of 30+ Pigs/Sow/Year

The number of pigs a sow can produce annually continues to be a popular measure of production efficiency. The common metric used to compile sow productivity level is the well-recognized pigs/sow/year

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  • Feb. 10, 2012
    News

    Sow Productivity Task Force Sets Goal for Lifetime Performance

    The level of productivity of sows during their lifetimes has significant economic and animal welfare implications for the U.S. pork industry...More
  • Feb. 6, 2012
    Article

    Eight Performance Indicators Drive Production Index Summary

    Swine Management Services (SMS) launched the farm benchmarking program in 2005 with about 150 farms, totaling 250,000 sows....More
  • Jan. 9, 2012
    Article

    A Four-Year Snapshot of Sow Productivity Trends

    As we start our third year of writing articles for the Weekly Preview, we thought it would be interesting to look at the production trends over the last four years....More
  • Jan. 4, 2012
    News

    Illinois Pork Expo Covers Hot Topics

    The 2012 Illinois Pork Expo Jan. 31-Feb. 1 at the Peoria Civic Center provides coverage of several key issues to the pork industry...More
  • Dec. 5, 2011
    Article

    Parity Affects Pigs Weaned/Mated Female/Year

    Female parity effects on weaned pig averages focusing on several production parameters - weaning age, pigs weaned/female farrowed, female death loss percentage, female culling percentage, sow herd parity structure and farm size....More
  • Nov. 28, 2011
    Article

    Sow Count Steady, but Production Trends Upward

    What is happening to the U.S. breeding herd? That is a frequently asked question these days. USDA will begin surveying producers this week for the December Hogs and Pigs report, which will be published on Dec. 23...More
  • Nov. 17, 2011
    Article

    Smithfield Turns Down HSUS Demand on Gestation Stalls

    Smithfield Foods has turned down a demand from the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) to review company records on plans to eliminate gestation crates...More
  • Nov. 14, 2011
    Article

    U.S.-Canadian Pork Producers Welcome Some Stability

    Canada's Oct. 1 quarterly Hog Statistics report revealed a swine breeding herd that was larger than one year earlier for the first time since April 2005. Canada's herd of 1.3083 million head was 0.1% larger than last year on Oct.1...More
  • Nov. 10, 2011
    Commentary

    Words of Wisdom

    When an industry stalwart announces retirement, I sit up and take notice. Such was the case when George Foxcroft, reproductive biologist at the University of Alberta, presented his keynote address at the Al Leman Swine Conference recently...More
  • Nov. 10, 2011
    article

    Striking Back at PRRS

    Lantz Enterprises’ farm manager Doug Siebenahler will never forget the PRRS outbreak of 2007. Two strains of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) struck with a vengeance...More
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