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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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New World Screwworm - The Importance of Early Recognition

In the first week of June, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed four cases of New World screwworm (NWS) in Texas, marking the first detections of the parasite in the United States in decades.Read More

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

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