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Principles of efficient pork production, including comparative breed evaluation, breeding, feeding, management, marketing, and business aspects. Problems and practices associated with tropical environment emphasized.

1. Students will integrate and apply scientific principles of genetics, environmental physiology, nutrition, health and reproduction to swine production and management.

2. Students will combine science and practical considerations in planning swine production systems, including breeding, reproduction, growth, feeding, housing, health, and their relationship to quality pork and profitability.

3. Students will develop a written swine production technical plan. The course is writing intensive.

The Sow: Improving her Efficiency. P. R. English, W. J. Smith and A. MacLean. The Farming Press.

The Growing and Finishing Pig: Improving Efficiency. 1988. P. R. English, V. R. Fowler, S. Baxter and W. J. Smith. The Farming Press.

Pork Industry Handbook (PIH). Cooperative Extension Service, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Handing in assignments: Assignments are due by 6 p.m. on the due date. Assignments can be handed in as hard copy or as email attachments.

Policy on late assignments: For each day that each assignment, including drafts, is late, 1% will be subtracted from the final grade.

Students are expected to abide by the Student Conduct Code. All work produced, including drafts, final copies and any other work, must be the student's own original work.

Week	Dates	Topic	References	Assignments
1	8/27-8/29	The pig Production systems	Pork Facts Pig History	Assumption of Risk and Release due
2	9/3-9/5	Swine industry - world, US and HI
3	9/10-9/12	Breeds and breeding systems		Sec 1 due
4	9/17-9/19	Crossing and selection
5	9/24-9/26	Nutrition and feeding Feed formulation		Sec 2 due
6	10/1-10/3	Feeding for growth Feeding for reproduction		Sec 1 revisions due
7	10/8-10/10	Housing and equipment		Sec 3 due
8	10/15-10/17	Manure management		Sec 2 revisions due
9	10/22-10/24	Land application Odor		Sec 4 due
10	10/29-10/31	Health		Sec 3 revisions due
11	11/5-11/7	Health and PQA		Sec 5 due
12	11/12-11/14	Labor and business plan Issues		Sec 4 revisions due
13	11/19-11/21	Reproduction Artificial insemination Management of sows and piglets	P.H. Reproduction PIH Management	Sec 6 due Draft oral presentations due
14	11/26	Reproductive efficiency Feed efficiency	The Sow: Improving her Efficiency The Growing and Finishing Pig: Improving Efficiency	Sec 5 revisions due
15	12/3-12/5	Carcass and marketing Current Research	PIH Pork Quality	Oral presentations
16	12/10	Review		Complete project due

Week	Date	Location	Topic
1	Aug. 29	Lab	Introduction
2	Sept. 5	Land O'Lakes	Feeds
3	Sept. 12	Shimokawa Farm	Artificial insemination
4	Sept. 19	Lab	Pig Evaluation/Poster
5	Sept. 26	Lab	Mixit - Jim Carpenter
6	Oct. 3	Lab	Mixit - Jim Carpenter
7	Oct. 10	Telles Hog Farm	Farm visit
8	Oct. 17	Lab	Pork Quality Assurance
9	Oct. 24	Hawaiian Earth Products Halawa Quarantine Station	Composting Biosecurity
10	Oct. 31	Hawai`i Livestock Cooperative	Harvesting
11	Nov. 7	Shimokawa Farm	Piglet processing
12	Nov. 14	Lab	Swine Cost Program
13	Nov. 21	Lab	Swine Cost Program
14	Nov. 28		Holiday
15	Dec. 5	Ag Sci 224	Pork Quality/Review

Student Lab Safety: For all field labs students should wear closed shoes and long pants. Avoid loose or dangling clothing or jewelry. Students should be sure to thoroughly wash their hands after handling animals. We will be visiting commercial sites that are not open to the public, so students need to take responsibility for being aware of potential dangers (e.g. slippery floors) and for taking appropriate care to avoid problems. The Assumption of Risk and Release must be turned in before participating in any field labs.

Biosecurity and Farm Safety: To protect the pig farms, all field trip participants must have no contact with any pigs for 24 hours before a field trip, and all clothing, jewelry and footwear must be thoroughly cleaned between farm visits. Disposable plastic overshoes will be provided to help protect the pig farms from any disease organisms that might be transmitted by class members.