New Pork Industry Handbook Offers 1,700 Pages of Pork Info

The Pork Industry Handbook, a leading how-to guide for hog producers has been revised and is available through the Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service. The handbook includes sections on production and management systems, swine health, animal well-being and behavior, breeding and genetics, facilities and equipment, environmental management, marketing, pork quality, youth projects and worker health and safety.

New content includes more than 30 sections on nutrition and information on such feed additives as ractopamine and conjugated linoleic acid. The handbook was produced by swine experts at Purdue, 18 other land-grant universities, nine state pork boards and the National Pork Board, in cooperation with the U.S. Pork Center of Excellence and the Pork Checkoff.

The two-volume, 1,700-page guide comes in both print and DVD versions. The print version sells for $125, the DVD version for $60 and both versions for $175. The two products and a copy of the U.S. Pork Center of Excellence’s Diet Formulation and Evaluation software are available for $250.

To order or for more information, contact Purdue Extension’s The Education Store toll-free at 888-EXT-INFO, (888-398-4636) or visit www.the-education-store.com.

For more information, contact Steve Leer at sleer@purdue.edu.