Feeding management Multiple feeding practices have been related to sow livability. At the gilt level, research by Deen and ...

Despite improvements to biosecurity, diseases such as PRRS and PEDV continue to eat away productivity and profits, even at ...

Walk onto a modern hog farm and it is typical to find climate-controlled farrowing houses filled with hardworking sows nursing litters of 12 or more piglets. That scene, says Kansas State University ...

This might make him sound like a romantic, but don’t let his language fool you – his company’s path is firmly rooted in practicality. He’s adopted new technology developed at the University of ...

Animal welfare groups go to great lengths to show us how "the sausage" is made inside the factory-style farms that produce most of our meat. For the past few years, they've armed activists with video ...

The hog industry is losing sows—pigs that are raised solely for the purpose of breeding other pigs—at an increasing rate. Reports vary, but the number shared last year at an annual gathering of pork ...

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ENGLEVALE, N.D. - The Ransom Multiplier, a gilt development facility owned by the Nelson County Pigs Cooperative, plans to move in late-gestation sows by Nov. 1 and begin farrowing by Nov. 15. Once ...