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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Competition from Eastern Europe and Beyond - New Players in the Global Pork Industry
By Fiona Boal and presented at the 2006 Banff Pork Seminar - The twenty-first century pork industry is evolving at a rapid pace. It is characterised by increased levels of global competition, expansion of industrialized production, vertically integrated...

Introduction to Livestock Marketing
Written by the Agriculture, Food and Rural Development Department of Alberta Government.

What the Commercial Pork Producer needs to know about Genetic Improvement
By Dr. Todd See, Swine Genetics Specialist, North Carolina State University - The Commercial Pork Producer’s role in genetics is generally to take the end result of a genetic improvement program and manage animals in a manner to maximize expression of...

China - Pork Powerhouse of the World
By Ruojun Wang and presented at the 2006 Banff Pork Seminar - In recent years, live pig and pork production and pork consumption have been undergoing dramatic changes in China.

US Pork Outlook Report - November 2006
By U.S.D.A., Economic Research Service - This article is an extract from the November 2006: Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Outlook Report, highlighting Global Pork Industry data.

Impact of Pork Industry on Rural Communities: Community Perceptions of Environmental, Economic and Social Impacts of Livestock Production
By Wayne J. Caldwell and presented at the 2006 Banff Pork Seminar - Across Canada the continued viability of livestock production is increasingly dependent upon the willingness of the community to accept the industry as it continues to evolve.

Evaluating Growth, Loin Muscle Area, and Backfat Accretion During Summer and Winter for Finishing Pigs in Bedded Hoop and Confinement Buildings
By Joel Morrical, Mark Honeyman, Clint Schwab, Jay Harmon and Tom Baas. This article is from the Iowa State University Animal Industry Report 2006.

Different Approaches To Handling PRRS
By Monte McCaw, North Carolina State University - This article is from a collection of the scientific papers presented at the 2006 London Swine Conference.

Keeping Meat and Poultry Safe
By Luis Pons, USDA's Agricultural Research Service - Scientists in ARS’s Preharvest Food Safety and Enteric Diseases Research Unit are helping to make meals worry-free for people who enjoy meat and poultry.

Making Progress Through Research
By Kees de Lange, University of Guelph - This article is from a collection of the scientific papers presented at the 2006 London Swine Conference.

Number and timing of serve: how many and when?
By Dr Grant Walling and Dr André Maldjian, JSR Genetics. The timing of a service is probably the most critical parameter to achieve the best farrowing rates and litter sizes and success begins with a good knowledge of the herd.

Assessing Boar Semen Quality: Motility, Malformation or Viability?
By Dr Grant Walling and Dr André Maldjian, JSR Genetics - The assessment of an ejaculate for suitability for artificial insemination (AI) involves many quality parameters, the most common being volume, sperm concentration, motility and malformation...

Feeding the boar for optimal semen production
By JSR Genetics - While genetics play a role in the fertility of a breeding boar, nutrition is arguably the key factor for maintaining and/or promoting fertility. This article will consider a particular family of nutrients - lipids, also known as fat....

Selection Lines for Residual Feed Intake in Yorkshire Swine
By Weiguo Cai, graduate research assistant; Benny Mote, graduate research assistant; David Casey, geneticist, Pig Improvement Co.; Jack Dekkers, professor of animal science. This article is from the Iowa State University Animal Industry Report 2006.

Iowa’s Changing Swine Industry
By Mark Honeyman, Professor of Animal Science and Mike Duffy, Professor of Economics. This article was published the Iowa State University Animal Industry Report 2006.