Projects

Sow Lifetime Productivity

The ADSA’s 13th Annual Discover Conference on Sow Productive Lifetime served as a starting point for the Sow Lifetime Productivity Management Guide. The goal of this project is to gather known research in the area of sow lifetime productivity and assemble a guide for producers to use in their breeding herds.

Work is being completed on the Selecting and Managing the Gilt Replacement Herd unit, with sections including selection, nutrition, health, and management of the young female. This unit will be completed and available to the pork industry by the end of December 2008.

Following the completion of the Selecting and Managing the Gilt Replacement Herd, development work will continue on the P1-P2 and the mature sow section of the guide.