In an apparent response to opposition to its production practices, the world’s largest pork supplier Smithfield Foods announced Thursday that it would phase out sow gestation crates....More
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
Researchers at the Prairie Swine Centre (PSC) in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, tried giving sows the best of both worlds — protected stalls and open lying areas...More
Slight modifications to sow gestation stalls may provide solutions to one of the most controversial issues facing the swine industry, according to a University of Illinois researcher...More
When performance data is tabulated for sows housed in stalls vs. sows housed in pens at Dykhuis Farms, Inc. there is little difference in the overall...More
Study estimates the cost of transitioning the U.S. breeding herd from widely used gestation stalls to group housing. Voters and government are increasingly...More
The University of Minnesota's swine research facility at Waseca, MN, compares sows housed in individual stalls vs. pens, but the jury is still out. The...More
The Colorado Pork Producers Council (CPPC) has announced plans to begin phasing in group housing for pregnant sows on hog farms over a 10-year period, according to a new release dated Dec. 18...More
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...More
A University of Illinois animal scientist offers support for individual stalls, while a Canadian scientist provides an overview of group sow housing research....More
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...More
The legislature of Oregon has become the first in the nation to pass a ban of sow gestation stalls. Two states, Florida and Arizona, approved voter ballot initiatives outlawing their use...More
Arizona’s Proposition 204 will appear on the general election ballot on Nov. 7. It would amend the Arizona criminal code to make it a class 1 misdemeanor to use sow gestation stalls except in the seven days prior to expected farrowing....More
Farm groups' coalition responds to activists' charges. Voters approved a constitutional amendment a few years back to ban sow gestation stalls in Florida....More
Florida voters, swayed by a $1.4 million advertising blitz by animal rights activists, passed an amendment to the state constitution banning the use of...More
