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Three industry experts talk solutions to gilt and sow management challenges.

With pork production currently exceeding plant capacity, it’s important to balance treatment and welfare decisions with whether marginal pigs will become full-value harvest pigs.

Running a nucleus farm cannot be that difficult, can it?

Three industry experts talk solutions to gilt and sow management challenges.

Many sow farms have undergone Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (M. hyo) elimination within their breeding herd, which makes it critical to understand the potential transmission risk from boar studs. While M. hyo is largely trans…

If you review efficiency trendlines and reductions in carbon footprint over the past 20 years in the pork industry, you can’t help but be excited by the strides we’ve made. Unfortunately, with the pandemic turning our wo…

Industry experts talk solutions to gilt and sow management challenges.

In a recent talk at the National Hog Farmer Virtual Conference, Dr Fent shone the light on possible early intervention opportunities to improve production and, therefore, profits.

There is no doubt the pig industry in Latin America is growing despite the ever-present variety of challenges it faces.

Few things remain the same for long on a hog farm. By the very nature of today’s production system, pigs are continuously moving on or off a site. Seasons change as do health challenges, and any number of stressors can s…

1. Get all the feed out! It may not be easy, but this is the No.1 item to concern yourself with when preparing a house for extended downtimes. Feed left in the lines or feed bins will attract mice and rats, which can gr…

Energy is the most expensive component of a pig's diets, comprising about 50 percent of the final diet cost. It is one of the main nutrients required for lean tissue, fat, and bone growth; it supports the daily maintenan…

The Maschhoff's assess biosecurity risks on their farms

The Pig Site's editor Emily Houghton speaks to Marcio Goncalves from Swine it, the podcast for the global swine industry.

Mental health is a serious issue for everyone, including farmers and stock workers in the UK and Ireland. Support is offered, but more needs to be done.

The pig traders’ perspective The US hog futures market has been struggling the past two weeks, after showing a strong rebound in late April into early May. Bearish elements still at work include reduced packing-plant sla…

Despite early economic troubles, Brazil has been weathering the COVID-19 storm and is now continuing its upward growth trend.

The global swine industry is going through unprecedented challenges. On the one hand, the threat of the African Swine Fever virus is global, despite the fact it hasn’t arrived in all markets. The virus is today alive amo…

Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) is the principal etiological agent of porcine circovirus associated disease (PCVAD), which can cost producers an estimated $3 to $4 per pig.

Maternal effects can be defined as all conditions that relate to how a dam’s genetics and life history influences how her progenies perform.