Cooperative Effort Leads to the Development of Tools to Assist Pork Producers in Evaluating Structural Soundness of Replacement Gilts

Authors

Kenneth Stalder, Iowa State UniversityFollow
Dale Miller, National Hog FarmerFollow
Colin Johnson, Iowa State UniversityFollow
Mark Boggess, National Pork BoardFollow

Volume

46

Issue

6

Abstract

The objective of the project described here was to develop and deliver new visual tools to assist pork producers to evaluate the structural and reproductive soundness of replacement gilts within their sow herds. The development and distribution of the posters demonstrates how Extension, industry commodity groups, industry partners, and business media can work together to deliver the tools needed to have a positive economic impact at the farm level. Ideas like these are needed to meet the increasingly complex educational needs of modern agricultural industries like the U.S. pork industry.

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Stalder, K., Miller, D., Johnson, C., & Boggess, M. (2008). Cooperative Effort Leads to the Development of Tools to Assist Pork Producers in Evaluating Structural Soundness of Replacement Gilts. The Journal of Extension, 46(6), Article 21. https://open.clemson.edu/joe/vol46/iss6/21