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Great gains for producers through Gilt Watch
2017-11-29 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
Pig producers are being urged to sign up to AHDB Pork’s first Gilt Watch programme to share best practice and gain valuable insight into improving herd performance.
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Gilt and Sow Management Guidelines 2017: Section 1 General Farm Review
2017-10-17 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
This section provides checklists on key performance indicators related to general sow farm processes and performance.
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Genetic strategies to reduce gilt feed and development costs
2017-08-10 11:00:00| National Hog Farmer
Early puberty gilts could save producers feed costs and reward with high-quality piglets.
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Urine-sampling options make it easier to evaluate gilt and sow health
2017-08-01 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
Urine samples are an effective but underutilized diagnostic tool for evaluating the nutritional, physiological and health status of gilts and sows.1
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US Barrows and Gilt Cash Prices Decline Steeply
2016-11-14 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Cash prices for barrows and gilts (B/G) have declined sharply since last summer as large hog supplies bump up again available processing capacity. We are being told that packers are doing their best to maximize the number of hogs they can process in a day, including shuffling labor around the plant so as to process more hogs, writes the
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