Cherkizovo chooses Topigs Norsvin as genetic partner
Russian Cherkizovo Group has chosen Topigs Norsvin as their preferred genetic partner. This means that in the near future, all 90,000 sows will be produced with Topigs Norsvin genetics.
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An economic analysis of sow retention in a United States breed-to-wean system
Retaining sows in the herd longer has economic benefits that could increase the financial returns of a breed-to-wean system.
Hypor expands US presence with new hire
Hypor continues to grow throughout the U.S., and the latest addition to their sales team will help accomplish that.
Weaning straight into pens
Weaning one or several weeks straight into pens, a week worth of space can be gained
DanAvl now becomes DanBred
DanBred will market, sell and advise on pig genetics worldwide.
How does Hypor spell carcass quality? S-T-A-R
The Hypor Libra* (pronounced Libra Star) gives you both in merging the best genetics from Canada, France and Spain to enhance carcass quality.
Argentina: Start-up of three pig artificial insemination laboratories
The starting-up of the laboratories will allow to improve the regional productivity and to standardise the quality of pork, facilitating that the small producers can buy genetic material.
Protect fetuses from infection with PRRSV
In this study, CD163-positive fetuses were completely protected from PRRSV in dams possessing a complete knockout of the CD163 receptor.
Factors of importance when selecting sows as embryo donors
The improvement in porcine embryo preservation and non-surgical embryo transfer (ET) procedures achieved in recent years represents essential progress for the practical use of ET in the pig industry.
Recombinetics and DNA Genetics form alliance to end surgical castrations of swine
Alliance aims to improve swine health and well-being.
Reproductive performance following non-surgical deep uterine porcine embryo transfer
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of the weaned recipients' parity on fertility and prolificacy following NsDU-ET.
Dietary crude protein increase in lactating diets
Increase crude protein level in lactating diet may enhance milk quality and improve sow and litter performance in high productive sows.
Use of heterospermic inseminations in boar fertility
Sperm motility, morphology and three seminal plasma proteins were positively associated with heterospermic boar fertility.
Green light for a new DanAvl
Now is the start of a new chapter in the story of DanAvl, which is about ensuring the Danish pig producers the maximum yield of the potential of billions on export markets.
Frequency and time of gestation feeding and their subsequent effects on farrowing performance
Effect of feeding time and frequency during gestation does not affect farrowing performance.