This trick explains how to obtain foster sows for the adoptions.

Dr. Liz Wagstrom, National Pork Producers Council, from the 2014 World Pork Expo, June 4-6, 2014, Des Monies, IA, USA.

Fertility problems with variable reproductive performances were detected. Also, ear and tail necroses appear in nurseries, and continuous diarrhoea cases and rectal prolapses in the fattenings.

The survival of A. pleuropneumoniae was investigated under controlled laboratory conditions.

The importance of boar taint in meat quality...

Pig performance an carcass quality are not affected by the source of starch used in growing diets.

After reaching €1.78/kg by the end of June (the maximum price so far this year), the price in Germany has been falling during the last three weeks until reaching €1.60/kg last week, and dragging with it the prices in Holland, Belgium and Denmark. Nevertheless, the last price is €1.63/kg: a rise by €0.03.

The aim of the present study was to determine risk factors for lameness development within the first days of group-housing, with a focus on housing conditions, management and post-mixing aggression in sows.

We hear a lot of talk about optimizing profitability in grow-finish through reducing standard deviation of marketed weights and aiming that tighter weight group at the profit optimal average weight at the time of marketing. It’s a bit like playing darts, you want the darts to be in tight group but it is also necessary to be near the bull’s eye on the target.

Ad libitum feeding during the peripartal period limits excessive loss of body reserves improving litter growth and weaning weight.

Let us see the case of a farm with 5 non-productive days more than the average of the farms with the same profile. Where are these days lost?