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Improving Piglet Survival Can Lead to Producer Payoff

2013-12-09 22:47:00| National Hog Farmer

By Ron Ketchem and Mark Rix, Swine Management Services LLC, Fremont, NE As we head into a period of high profitability for the pork industry, is your farm ready to take advantage of this by maximizing the number of quality pigs you can produce and sell? With iso-wean pigs being sold at $70.00+, hog futures near a carcass price of $100.00 per cwt., and feed costs dropping, how much more money could you make if you had fewer stillborns and lowered pre-weaning mortality percentages at your sow farm? read more

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