Sentence examples for sowing production from inspiring English sources

The dependent variable is rainfall and independent variables are year, area of sowing, production.

The average sow production in the terminal line nucleus herd was assumed to be 10 pigs born alive per litter with a 1 1 sex ratio [ 9] and 2.1 litters per sow per year [ 8].

This corresponds to an annual removal rate of sows at 46.7% of sows in production.

Annual mortality rates reported previously, mainly including sows found dead, varied from 3.4%to6.9%9% of sows in production [ 1- 3].

Similarly, 10% (100 g/kg of diet) fish oil addition to lactation sow diet resulted in increased piglets' preweaning morbidity and decreased sows milk production (2).

However, lactation sow diet supplemented with 8~10% fish oil increased piglets' preweaning morbidity and decreased sows milk production and litter weight gain [ 2, 6].

In lactating sows, milk production is important for the post-natal growth of their litters.

The study was performed in a conventional farrow to finish farm with 250 Yorkshire × Landrace sows in production.

Moreover the proportion of sows/gilts found dead of sows in production (2.1%) was lower than in previous studies from other countries [ 1, 3, 5].

Performance data for one year was collected from 5 organic herds that had more than 30 sows in production and used a computerized recording system, and data from five nearby conventional farms with more than 30 sows and the same recording system were used as a comparison.

The criteria to be fulfilled by the farms, in order for them to be included in the study were: the farms should have more than 30 sows in production, they should use the computerized performing monitoring system PigWin Sugg (Svenska Pig) and, obviously, they should have owners who were willing to share their herd data.