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Capturing relative phenotypes to help us understand boar fertility

Amanda Minton, Associate Director of Reproductive Technology at Acuity Swine and Karl Kerns, Assistant Professor at Iowa State University, discuss capturing relative phenotypes to help us understand and ultimately improve boar fertility.

 

R&D: Understanding index distribution and accountability in competitive comparison

Justin Fix, Director of Business Development and Genetic Improvement with Acuity and Caleb Shull, Director of Research at The Maschhoffs discuss how genetic evaluation varies from nucleus to commercial production and how that variation creates a bias in data analysis.


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Finland’s African swine fever cases reinforce Canada’s vigilance

Finland’s first-ever outbreak of African swine fever is reinforcing why Canada’s pork industry has spent years preparing for a disease that could devastate livestock production and shut down export markets overnight.Read More

Swinergy Celebrates Its First Commercial Swine Pit-Barn RNG Project in the Upper Midwest

The project represents the first commercial application in the Upper Midwest of Swinergy’s patented technology to enable renewable natural gas production from manure collected from a swine pit-barn operation.Read More

SHIC Funded MSHMP Annual Report Details Program Growth and Value to US Pork Producers

The Morrison Swine Health Monitoring Project, funded by the Swine Health Information Center, submitted its 2025 annual report for swine disease monitoring and project enhancements. Dr. Cesar Corzo, along with colleagues at the University of Minnesota, detail the outcomes from three project objectives for the past year. Key achievements include adding porcine deltacoronavirus to the list of monitored diseases, assessing requirements to include influenza A virus sequencing information for breeding herds, and supporting the dynamic porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus variant classification system that serves as the basis for the PRRSV Variants Under Monitoring report. Further, project leaders report the continued expansion of producer participation in alignment with increasing inclusivity and representativeness. The MSHMP project data currently accounts for 3.9 million sows and represents approximately 65% of the US breeding herd. Read the full MSHMP report here. For 202Read More

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