Completed Competitive Grant

Coupling swine technologies: swine system options

Project ID: 1997-31

Abstract

Three major alternative swine production systems were researched and demonstrated at Iowa State University research farms: hoop structures at Allee Farm near Newell and Rhodes Farm near Rhodes, outdoor farrowing at the Western Farm near Castana, and a deep-bedded Swedish system at the Armstrong Farm near Lewis.

Lead investigator: Mark S. Honeyman, ISU Research Farms

Year of grant completion: 2000

This competitive grant project was part of the Leopold Center's Initiative.

Topics: Hoops and alternative livestock systems

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