Quantifying Pig Carcase Quality
By Dr. Mark Hawe, College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) and Erica Chisholm, Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute (AFBI) Producers and processors share the common goal - improving carcase quality.

Management Practices that Optimize Productivity in the Nursery: Case Studies on What Works!
By Cameron Farrell, Elite Swine and Catherine Templeton, Maitland Swine Services as presented at the 2007 London Swine Conference.

Selecting Gilts for Lifetime Productivity
By Dr. Todd See, Swine Genetics Specialist, North Carolina State University. Simultaneous advances have been made in the number of pigs a sow can produce each year, predominantly due to management, and in lean (growth rate and percentage), predominantly...

The great crate debate - are there other options at farrowing?
By Jane Jordan, ThePigSite Editor. Welfare is now a key component of EU pig production and as a consequence the systems used to rear pigs are continually under review. The farrowing crate is a contentious tool when it comes to welfare, but few systems...

Food Miles: Cutting the distance won't save the planet
By Jane Jordan, ThePigSite Editor - Food miles are not the environmental 'bad boy' marketeers may have us believe. Other factors involved in the production chain have a far greater impact on the environment and it's these areas that farming industries...

Professional attitude to health and investment will yield profits
By Jane Jordan, ThePigSite editor. Disease, health and efficiency are interlinked and bugs spread because they take advantage of our mismanagement and failings. This was the stark message from vet David Chennels MRCVS, at the NPA's spring conference....

Managing and Monitoring the Finishing Barn: Six Things Not to Do
By Mark Yungblut, Synergy Swine Inc as presented at the 2007 London Swine Conference.

Understanding and Improving Pork Quality
By Rick Sanderson, Pork Chain Business Development Manager, PIC. Meat quality is a very topical subject, and almost everyone I talk to has an opinion on what we must do to improve it.

New Approaches for Controlling Nursery Diseases... or Back to the Basics?
By John Harding, Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan. This article is from a collection of the scientific papers presented at the 2006 London Swine Conference.

Larger Litters Result in Increased Output of High Quality Pork
By Prairie Swine Centre and published by Farmscape. Research conducted by the Prairie Swine Centre indicates that although low birth weight piglets reach market weight more slowly than their heavier litter-mates, and present a greater challenge in terms...

Nebraska Swine Report 2007
By the University of Nebraska - This page links all of the Nebraska Swine Report 2007 articles.

Pork Production Around the World - Challenges & Opportunities: The World
By John Gadd, International Pig Consultant - This article is from a collection of the scientific papers presented at the 2006 London Swine Conference.

Managing Animal Variation
Excerp submitted by Eric van Heugten, Swine Nutrition Specialist, North Carolina State University - Before the widespread adoption of all-in-all-out (AIAO) production systems, variation in growth was largely a “hidden” cost.

KSU Swine Day 2006
This article is a collection of papers presented during KSU's Swine Day 2006.

Pork Production Around the World - Challenges & Opportunities: North Carolina
By Monte McCaw, Canadian Pork Council - This article is from a collection of the scientific papers presented at the 2006 London Swine Conference.