About IPIC Sow Summit
The Iowa Pork Industry Center at Iowa State University hosted the second Iowa Pork Industry Center Sow Summit on Wednesday, November 1, 2023! The purpose of this 1-day conference was to discuss current research that is poised to influence sow farm productivity in addition to discussion of emerging topics that sow farms are particularly affected by. The second of this biennial event was held in Ames, Iowa at the Gateway Hotel and Conference Center. This was a single day program that had a morning plenary session and two afternoon concurrent sessions, an applied session and a research session, focusing on the sow. The idea of this conference was to have a centralized venue to bring our industry cutting edge information in sow reproduction, sow farm management and information that can be quickly implemented. Our target audiences are sow farm owners, operators, and managers; as well as allied industry partners seeking current and relevant information for U.S. sow farms.
