Iowa Pork Industry Center

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IPIC 6 - Iowa Pork Industry Center staff brochure (July 2003)
IPIC 7 - Measuring Pork Quality Bookmark listing and description of color, instramuscular fat, water-holding capacity and ultimate pH (December 1999)
IPIC 8 - Minimizing the Use of Antibiotics in Pork Production 16-page booklet (October 2002)
IPIC 11a - Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles (DDGS) in the series "Feeding Bioenergy Coproducts to Swine" (May 2007)
IPIC 11b - Crude Glycerol in the series ""Feeding Bioenergy Coproducts to Swine" (December 2007)
Iowa State University Swine Researchers (January 2008)

NCR 529 - Porcine Somatotropin (PST), Biotechnology Information Series 6-page resource explains the science of how porcine somatotropin is used (June 1994)

PM 708X12 - Clostridium Perfringens Diarrhea, Swine Health Fact Sheet No. 12 4-page publication explains this disease, its transmission, and prevention (November 1997)

IPIC NPP2007 - IPIC Niche Pork Production Handbook (September 2007)

Individual sections
Foreword, Acknowledgements, Conclusion, Resource List	Reproduction & Genetics: Crossbreeding & Hybrid Vigor 410
Table of contents	Replacement Gilts & Sow Longevity 420
Records: Record Keeping 110	Estrus 430
Example Production Budgets 120	Mating or Insemination 440
Feed Budgets 130	Boar Fertility 450
Environment: Environmental Needs of the Pig 210	Production Flow: Scheduling Pig Flow 510
Housing Options 220	Target Annual Production 520
Bedding Management 230	Pork Quality: Pork Quality 610
Manure and Mortalities 240	Matching Carcass Specifications of Your Market 620
Nutrition: Nutrients for Pigs 310	Pig Husbandry: Stockmanship 710
Feedstuffs 320	Raising Healthy Pigs 720
Relative Value of Feedstuffs 330	Managing Feed Cost:- Feed Costs 810
Feed & Growth 340	Improving Feed Conversion 820
Sow Feeding 350	Reducing the Cost of Pig Diets 830
Advanced Sow Nutrition 360	Feed Budgets 840
Example Pig Diets 370	Managing Non-feed Costs: Non-feed Costs 910