Breed projects can be a frustrating necessity for many sow farms either on start-up or after a disease break.

Ad libitum feeding a lactation diet to gilts entering the farrowing house may be adequate to meet additional lysine, energy requirements for fetal growth.

Until farms can control management of gilts for at least 60-plus days before breeding, your gilts will under-perform their genetic potential.

Cross-discipline research with economic sensitivities needed to answer important questions in sow management.

"Breeding herd management: Preparing for summer" will be presented March 17.

New in 2019, the Swine Medicine Education Center in Ames provided supervision for the display.

Eight important factors for selecting replacement gilts at the commercial level.

How to cause the necessary changes will be up to the farm management and staff.

North Iowa Boar Semen has sent boar semen to every state and relies mostly on word-of-mouth advertising or their website.

Results showed that the SEHM provided a warmer creep environment for the piglets, did not impact ADG, reduced laid-on mortalities and consumed less electricity.