Exam 2: Swine Industry Flashcards
Confinement
Waste issues
Animal welfare
NIMBY
Environmental Management
What has swine production shifted to over the last ten years?
Vertical Integration
Where are the 1st and 2nd leading hog producing states?
Iowa 1st and NC 2nd
Swine production slowly shifted from what to what
pasture based to total confinement
What replaced the classic purebred producer and Boar testing system?
AI and the advent of “genetic companies”
Production systems lead to the development of
Breed blind engineered lines of hogs
What are the three stages of production larger operations usually use
Farrow
Nursery
Finishing
Conception to Processing
295 days
Birth to Slaughter
180 days
Birth to Nursery
62 days
Farrow
17-21 days
Nursery
45 days
Finishing
118 days
How much percent of pork consumed is processed
62%
The future
vertical disintegration
pastured pork
locally grown
