The University of Missouri and the Missouri Pork Association are hosting “Back to the Basics: Farrowing School” on June 26-27 at the school’s Animal Science Research Center in Columbia, MO

Pork producers and breeding herd managers typically record a single reason for culling a sow. Often, they simply check a box in their recordkeeping program

The 13th Discover Conference on Food Animal Agriculture: Sow Productive Lifetime, will be held Sept. 9-12, 2007 at the Brown County Inn in Nashville, IN

The intensive selection for increased carcass leanness has led to a decline in meat quality and an increase in consumer concerns. The quality characteristics

The U.S. pork industry maintains profitability largely through continued improvement in productivity and cost control. Increases in lean mass and reproductive rates have been reported in USDA data since 1955. However, producing high-quality pork...

The Humane Society of the United States urges Maryland lawmakers to pass legislation that would ban the use of sow gestation stalls. Sen. Gwendolyn Britt (D-MD) introduced

Iowa State University's (ISU) Estimated Costs and Returns to various livestock feeding enterprises have been a valuable source of cost and profit data for many, many years. Started in the 1960s by the late Dr. Gene Futtrell, the estimates provide...

Henceforth, January 25th, 2007, will serve as a milestone in the U.S. pork industry. On the second day of the Iowa Pork Congress, the trade show floor

New boar line offers key production attributes. Monsanto Choice Genetics (MCG) has launched its new GX terminal sire line, offering traits for growth and meat quality. With the GX boar, producers will be able to experience the ideal intersection...

The costs of achieving 30 pigs/sow/year (p/s/y) may be too high to justify, agree North American reproductive physiologists. To accomplish the 30 p/s/y goal, we must