[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of current United States swine selection indexes and indexes designed for Chinese pork production

J Cheng, DW Newcom, MM Schutz, Q Cui, B Li… - The Professional Animal …, 2018 - Elsevier
The objective was to compare selection indexes based on the production costs and
economic values from the United States and China. Indexes including terminal sire (TSI) …

Defining pig sort loss with a simulation of various marketing options of pigs with the assumption that marketing cuts improve variation in carcass weight and leanness

ZY Zhou, BM Bohrer - Canadian Journal of Animal Science, 2019 - cdnsciencepub.com
The study aimed to offer clarification on pig sort loss and associated marketing strategies
using a simulated pig marketing model that contemplates both the carcass weight and the …