“One aspect evaluated in our research was the best type of feeder design that will allow sows to consume feed easily and to ...

Farrowing crates have been in widespread use in the pork industry since the 1960s to restrict a nursing sow from accidentally killing their young. Piglet mortality in farrowing crates could ...

The AgriLife report shows that in September hams went for retail at $4.60 per pound, which was 3 cents higher than September ...

Australian pork producer SunPork has introduced a new patented 'maternity ring' aimed at achieving stall-free and farrowing crate-free pork production, Food Processing reported. This development comes ...

Now, Anderson said, as the holidays approach, ham demand and associated wholesale prices are increasing. Wholesale 23-27-pound trimmed hams have hit $0.95 per pound, their highest price in several ...

Walk onto a modern hog farm and it is typical to find climate-controlled farrowing houses filled with hardworking sows nursing litters of 12 or more piglets. That scene, K-State swine specialist ...

The province’s ninth PED case was then confirmed Monday afternoon, in animals at a 550-sow farrowing barn at St-Hugues, also in the eastern Monteregie, about 25 km north of St-Hyacinthe. The St-Hugues ...