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Convert to Pens Smithfield Urges Sow Growers
2014-01-07 15:33:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: Smithfield Foods Acknowledging the challenge it is setting forth, Smithfield Foods, Inc. and its hog production subsidiary, Murphy-Brown LLC, announced today that it is recommending all of its contract sow growers join with the company in converting their facilities to group housing systems for pregnant sows. The company said that it is asking contract sow growers to convert by 2022 with a sliding scale of incentives to accelerate that timetable. Growers who commit to convert to group housing will receive contract extensions upon completion of the conversion. read more
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Hidden Costs of Sow Lameness
2013-12-23 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US & CANADA - In recent weeks, Canadian and US researchers have been touring the country delivering a series of workshops aimed at raising awareness of the cost of sow lameness in commercial swine herds, writes Glenn Kuhn, Swine Technical Manager at Genesus Inc.
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Keeping PRRS Out of Sow Herds
2013-12-20 21:35:00| National Hog Farmer
By Joe Vansickle The Pipestone System follows structured protocols for disease elimination. To clean up sow breed-to-wean herds when they turn positive for porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) in the fall, the Pipestone (MN) Veterinary Clinic has developed best practices to be incorporated into a standard protocol for disease elimination in its production network. Its called the Pipestone System. The goal for each newly infected farm is to follow this protocol to eliminate the field virus, said Joel Nerem, DVM, Pipestone Veterinary Clinic (PVC). read more
Key Consideration When Designing Group Sow Housing Systems
2013-12-16 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CANADA - An agriculture professor with Newcastle University suggests, when creating group housing systems for pregnant sows, designers need to focus primarily on minimizing aggression, Bruce Cochrane writes.
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CME: Weekly Cow, Sow Slaughter Likely to Stay Light
2013-12-03 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Lower feed costs and significantly improved margins have encouraged producers to reduce the number of breeding animals they send to market, write Steve Meyer and Len Steiner.
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