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 ...

A dazzling sum of €4.4 billion. That is the calculated amount which will cost the transition to modern-style breeding houses ...

Swine housing has been a hot topic in recent years, not only in the United States, but in many countries, such as Denmark. Due to genetic advancements in recent years, the average litter size in ...

Crushing continues to be the leading cause of piglet mortality thus many small sow meals may have negative consequences on ...