Date: April 23, 2012
Length: 4:51
Speakers: Everett Forkner, President National Pork Board
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Date: March 28th 2012
Length: 6:30
Speakers: Roy Henry, Kansas Pork Producer and Member National Pork Board
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Date: March 15th 2012
Length: 5:27
Speakers: Dr. Patrick Webb, Director Swine Health Programs, National Pork Board
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Call 1-800-645-4301 or visit Pigsorters.com The importance of accurately weighing your pigs is obvious: overweight or underweight animals cost you money at market, with bonuses being lost or penalties being fixed for undesired-weight pigs. However good you or your... (Continue reading)
A new American Meat Science Association (AMSA) white paper examining sodium nitrite in processed meats concludes that nitrite is essential to ensuring product safety, and that cured meats contribute a very small part of human nitrite intake and that emerging... (Continue reading)
Pork production has closely followed a scientific approach over the recent period of time with subjectivity replacing objectivity. The scientific method follows a path of reducing the number of variables involved so that a single process can be examined in... (Continue reading)
Author(s): Western Hog Journal – A.D. Beaulieu, J.F. Patience and D. Gillis, Prairie Swine Centre, Inc. Saskatoon Publication Date: July 14, 2011 Reference: Fall 2008 Summary: Deoxynivalenol (DON) is a mycotoxin produced by fungi which may contaminate cereal grains, including... (Continue reading)
Download The Complete Report This report presents the results of a major research effort to investigate technologies and approaches to reducing emissions of odor, gases (ammonia and hydrogen sulfide), and dust from commercial swine operations in Illinois. The research was... (Continue reading)
Christian R. Boessen Crops and Swine Economist Department of Agricultural Economics Commercial Agriculture Program Increasing numbers of farmers, aspiring farmers and rural landowners are considering a contract hog finishing enterprise as a way to enter agriculture or to expand or... (Continue reading)
Mycoplasmal pneumonia and porcine circovirus are two of the costliest diseases affecting pork producers.1 Helping provide protection before disease exposure is critical to the success of any vaccination program. “It’s critical to remember that with mycoplasmal pneumonia, it’s always a... (Continue reading)
Author(s): B. Predicala, E. Navia Publication Date: January 1, 2008 Reference: Centred on Swine 15-1 Country: Canada Summary: Energy usage in swine barns and potential energy conservation measures were evaluated in this study. A survey of 28 swine facilities showed... (Continue reading)
Current progress of the PRRS host genetics consortium Joan K Lunney1 , Juan Pedro Steibel2 , James M Reecy3 , Eric Fritz3 , Max F Rothschild3 , Maureen Kerrigan4 , B Trible4 and Raymond RR Rowland4 1 Animal Parasitic Diseases... (Continue reading)
The impact of diet deprivation and subsequent over-allowance on the metabolite status, mammary development, and mammary gene expression in prepubertal gilts was determined. Forty-seven gilts were reared under a conventional (control, CTL; n = 23) or an experimental (treatment, TRT;... (Continue reading)
Author(s): Denise Beaulieu, Janice Shea and Doug Gillis Publication Date: October 5, 2011 Reference: Centred on Swine 17-1 Summary: Providing supplemental feed to the piglets in the farrowing room, or creep feeding, is practised to ensure a smooth transition onto... (Continue reading)
Plum Island Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, NAA, P.O. Box 848, Greenport, NY 11944, United States; Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States. Abstract We previously demonstrated that an... (Continue reading)
Larry D. Stearns, Research Associate, Agricultural Economics Timothy A. Petry, Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics Future Cycles The U.S. hog industry has historically been characterized by cyclical variations in hog inventories, pork production, and hog and pork prices. A cycle is... (Continue reading)
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