Transitioning from conventional farrowing crates to flexible farrowing pens will bring many challenges, along with significant opportunities to further improve pig welfare, based on producers’ ...

A patented Purdue University invention designed to cool sows and lower their respiration rate while farrowing has been licensed to Innovative Heating Technologies for further beta testing and ...

I find it amusing that once again people who don't eat pork are squealing like pigs (“Kroger acts after hog-farm video,” Associated Press article, June 30 Dispatch). Non-farmers cannot understand farm ...

When formulating diets for sows it is possible to reduce dietary protein by decreasing soybean meal inclusion and increase ...

Uncertainty remains about potential new farrowing system regulations requiring the industry to switch from conventional to flexible farrowing systems. These provide ...