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PUBLICATIONS

All are available in pdf format for download unless otherwise indicated. Please contact us if you have questions.

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

 

 

 

 

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