Blueprint: Selection for feed efficiency helps pigs adapt to stressors
Blueprint: Selection for feed efficiency helps pigs adapt to stressors
Apr 18, 2016
Feed is the largest cost in pork production; therefore, improving feed efficiency can increase producer profitability. Furthermore, improved feed efficiency can support industry competitiveness, decrease the demand on global feed resources and...
Blueprint: Identification of the serotype-specific proteins in African swine fever
Apr 11, 2016
Facilitates vaccine design and development
A Feed Intake Recording Equipment System automates the measurement of an individual animalrsquos daily feed intake and other pig performance characteristics of a growing animal
Blueprint: Breeding for resistance to infectious disease
Apr 04, 2016
Selecting genetics to help the U.S. swine herd fight infectious diseases would provide a major financial boost to hog producers everywhere...
Good feeding system pen and management choices are essential to success in group gestation
Blueprint: Options for managing group-housed sows
Nov 09, 2015
Success with group housing is more dependent on the design and management of each system, including good stockmanship and observational skills.
Grouping sows according to body conditionssize and parity is key to the success of a group housing system
Group sow housing: The Quebec report
Nov 02, 2015
For a properly prepared and defined transition to group housing, certain factors must be considered before undertaking the project
Once sows are acclimated to the group housing dynamics the herd hierarchy disappears and competition is gone
Blueprint: Who let the  sows out?
Oct 19, 2015
With last year’s stronger pig prices, the need to upgrade aging barn infrastructure and an added push from the latest Canadian...
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2014 World Pork Expo New Product Tour
Apr 30, 2014
What Do 2.3 million Finishing Hogs Tell Us?
Jan 13, 2014
We have been working on building the SMS Closeout Benchmarking Program for over three years and this will be the first time we are able to use information from the data set to write an article. SMS is ready now to accept data from other finisher...
Summerizing Hog Barns
Summerizing Hog Barns
Mar 06, 2013
While the time and effort placed on winterizing hog facilities is well spent, from an economic standpoint, there are probably more reasons to prepare barns for the summer’s heat...
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