30.02 - Thirty pigs in a calendar year becomes reality
By Jim Long, President Genesus Genetics / Keystone Pig Advancement Inc Canada - There are 7.5 million sows in Canada and the United States on 40,000 plus farms. The latest annual PigCHAMP data mean indicates pig’s weaned/female/year is 20.63.

Outdoor AI - Top Five Tips from BQP
Paul Arundel, BQP’s Breeding Farm Manager, highlights his top five AI tips for a successful outdoor service system.

World Pig Production, Opportunity or Threat?
By Donald E. Orr Jr. and Yingran Shen and published in the Midwest Swine Nutrition Conference 2006.

Ventilating through the door is not very helpful
By Nick Bird, FarmEx - One interesting point to emerge from our energy monitoring project on British pig farms is the effect of leaving the door open.

EU Livestock and Products Semi-Annual - February 2007
By USDA, Foreign Agricultural Service - This article provides the pork industry data from the USDA FAS Livestock and Products Semi-Annual 2007 report for the EU. A link to the full report is also provided. The full report includes all the tabular data...

UK Pig Disease Quarterly Surveillance Report (to September 2006)
By Veterinary Laboratories Agency - This report monitors trends in the major endemic pig diseases and utilises the farmfile and VIDA (Veterinary Investigation Disease Analysis) databases. The report is compiled using disease data gathered by the network...

Boosting Productivity of a Sow Herd
By Steve Newing and published by PIC - The author, Steve Newing, is a herd manager on a 650 sow herd indoor breeding unit, New House Farm in Oxfordshire, owned by Mr T Blanchard. It was formerly a PIC nucleus farm. Finished pigs are marketed through Thames...

Midwest Swine Nutrition Conference 2006
Hosted by the Indiana Farm Bureau - This article is a collection of the research topics discussed at the Midwest Swine Nutrition Conference 2006.

Taking Top Genetics Into Russia
By International Pig Topics - Investors backing a brand new pig project in Belgorod called upon JSR Genetics, for their wealth of experience and expertise, to complete the huge, complex and, some would say, daunting task of restocking an entire region...

What’s new in damline liquid genetics?
By Caroline Blaken, PIC Technical Sales Support - PIC’s new high-throughput marker discovery programme has resulted in a pipeline of thousands of genetic markers for evaluation within PIC’s breeding programme.

Quality AI pays
By Malcolm Turley, Gene Transfer Manager, PIC USA - Since PIC entered the "Gene Transfer" business in 1994, the use of AI in the US swine industry has grown from less than 10% to more than 82% of the matings performed using AI.

Effects of Finishing Pigs in Hoop Structures on Swine Performance, Pork Composition, and Pork Quality
By Brenda Patton, Elisabeth Huff-Lonergan, Mark Honeyman and Steven Lonergan. This article is from the Iowa State University Animal Industry Report 2006.

KSU Swine Day 2006: Predicting Boar Growth Rates
By R. C. Sulabo, J. Quackenbush, R. D. Goodband, M. D. Tokach, S. S. Dritz, J. M. DeRouchey, and J. L. Nelssen - This article is a collection of papers presented during KSU's Swine Day 2006.

Advanced Computing Systems
By Dr Grant Walling, JSR Genetics - The philosophy of 18th Century agriculturalist Robert Bakewell was to ‘breed from the best’, a strategy with which even modern day genetics companies will still be able to identify.

KSU Swine Day 2006: Porcine Umbilical Cord Matrix Stem Cells
By R. Carlin, D. Troyer, M. Weiss, B. Schultz, and D. Davis - This article is a collection of papers presented during KSU's Swine Day 2006.