Looking at farrowing rate percentage for the entire farm and for gilts, litters/mated female/year and retention percentage.

New agreement is an extension of the earlier agreement from 2019.

Tracking various production variables can help farms improve overall success.

Identifying gilts best suited to enter breeding herd has significant challenges.

Study explores promising sow transition technologies with farrowing duration and piglet characteristics.

Data reveals increasing problem with female death loss percentage over time.

Study finds breeding animals for disease resilience three times more profitable than breeding based on production traits.

Part 1: Decision regarding cause of death involves several aspects such as the recorder's training, knowledge and availability of supporting data for such diagnosis.

The swine industry has a lot of work to do looking into and figuring out how to lower female death loss and culling.

When the data are broken out by the younger females, Parity 0 to Parity 2, they account for 29-47% of all the females culled.