Hog Management
Despite steady producer profits driven by cheaper feed, lagging hog prices and a shifting export market present a complex puzzle for the industry and budget-conscious consumers alike.
Before you tear down or build new, use this expert-backed checklist to see if your older barns are worth saving.
How to test your source, strip away rapid biofilm regrowth and calibrate your system to ensure every drop of water supports pig performance.
From undercover videos to legislative battles like Prop 12, the debate over sow housing has evolved into a strategic campaign to control how farmers operate.
From gamifying breeding targets to using AI for language barriers, industry experts share simple ways to upgrade your daily farm management.
While anyone can copy your facilities, equipment or production practices, your true competitive advantage lies in the one thing competitors can’t replicate: your people.
Iowa State University’s new predictive model helps pork producers transition from reacting to nursery losses to anticipating them, allowing veterinary and labor resources to be deployed where they are needed most.
Learn how to calculate and compare the true value of your current sows against prospective replacement gilts to make smarter, timely culling decisions.
With industry-wide sow mortality hovering around 15%, the sow herd is under intense pressure. Here’s how a shift in gilt selection criteria can transform herd performance.
While feed mitigants offer a vital shield against PRRSv, validating their presence and mixing consistency at the mill is crucial to ensuring true biosecurity on sow farms.
From encouraging daily movement to fine-tuning feed-to-water ratios, simple management tweaks can unlock a lactating sow’s full reproductive potential.
New management strategies go beyond the basics to improve lactation and sow productivity.
While modern sow productivity has skyrocketed, standard nutritional guidelines haven’t kept pace—but new research reveals that targeted prefarrow supplementation can bridge the gap and dramatically improve sow survival rates.
U.S. pork producers are warning that further farm bill delays threaten farm survival by leaving them vulnerable to a costly, state-by-state patchwork of Prop 12 animal housing laws. Three producers share their perspective.
While the pork industry spends millions locking down feed and air, untreated water remains a massive, wide-open doorway for costly pathogens to slip directly into the herd.
Colin Johnson shares practical insights and strategies to help pork producers navigate current challenges in disease management, labor sourcing and facility transitions.
How this farrowing production manager invests himself to grow elite caretakers and high-performance sows at Schwartz Farms.
Jay Johnson received a $1.15 million USDA grant to expand his HotHog app, which helps producers mitigate heat stress on pigs.
While modern swine genetics have advanced rapidly, our assumptions about water quality remain stuck in the past—costing producers average daily gain and wasting expensive medications.
As activist-led lawsuits target essential nutrients and farming permits, agriculture must stand united behind sound science to protect the future of food production.
It takes very little contamination to cause a lot of harm, making mycotoxins an invisible threat to pig health.
Eliminating porcine epidemic diarrhea virus is only half the battle. Here’s how building a domestic elimination pathway lays the exact groundwork needed to fight foreign animal diseases, too.
How can pork producers navigate labor, nutrition and disease challenges? Speakers from Kansas State, Ohio State and N.G. Purvis Farms gather in Muncie, Ind., to provide on-farm solutions.
Paying attention to early-life hoof integrity can prevent premature culls, boost lifetime pigs weaned, and unlock your herd’s true genetic potential.
You wouldn’t leave your barn unlocked—here is how to apply the same common-sense security to your organization’s most valuable data.
A newly developed lipid nanoparticle platform offers a rapid, cost-effective defense against rapidly mutating cross-species flu viruses.
Funded through the Working Families Tax Cuts Act, the Feral Swine Eradication and Control Pilot Program is opening $35 million in new grants to help partners across 14 states protect American farms, livestock and natural resources.
A united front and solid data help defend the pork industry against activist lawsuits.
From networking with industry leaders to mentoring the next generation, World Pork Expo highlights how building connections today shapes the future of agriculture.
From the re-emergence of pseudorabies to unrelenting PRRSV activity, experts warn that “seasonal reprieves” are a thing of the past.