Peak Swine Genetics, Inc. (Newsletters

January, 2005 Vol. 8, No. 1
PEAK OF PERFORMANCE NEWS

General Manager Comments

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2005! We wish everyone all the best for a successful, healthy and happy year.

Banff Pork Seminar will be held January 18-21, 2005. Several PEAK staff and associates will be there to meet with you regarding our program. Paul Klingeman and Alfred Wahl will be in attendance at the Montana Pork Producers Council meeting January 19, looking to provide additional support for our clients in the US.

Hog prices are finally trending lower through the Christmas period, with an excellent run for market prices from October through December. Where feed prices were lower (perhaps lower grain quality as well) after harvest, profitability was, and should be, sustained in the fourth quarter 2004 and in the first quarter 2005. Interesting that cash prices were substantially higher than forward contract prices over most of this past year.

We’re looking forward to the next year to present some new concepts in marketing. Our Territory Managers will be working with clients in making these concepts work to everyone’s satisfaction.

PEAK Growth Summit

GROWTH in Hog Quality Improvement

Hogs marketed to OLYMEL by Bloomsbury Farms at the end of August showed excellent grading results. The 53 head averaged 93.7 kg and 112.3 index from carcasses with 16.5 mm backfat and 62.5 mm loin depths. Average lean incentive paid $1.42/hog.

Carcass weight	Number shipped	Ave Backfat	Ave Loin Depth	Ave Index
85-89.9 kg	10	16.2 mm	62.6 mm	114.5
90-94.9 kg	25	15.9 mm	62.0 mm	113.8
95-99.9 kg	13	18.3 mm	62.5 mm	110.8
100-104.9 kg	5	15.4 mm	65.3 mm	104.8

Clients Choose PEAK Swine Genetics

Frank Brown, BC has taken Landrace gilts and Yorkshire boars for his in-house multiplication herd.

We welcome every new client and extend our thanks to ongoing clients for their purchases of our high quality Summit^® gilts; Trailblazer^® boars and Duroc Pathfinder boars!

We appreciate all of our clients!

PEAK Book Of World Records

Nine Trailblazer^® boars probed at Bloomsbury Farms nucleus averaged 64.8 mm loin depth, with the highest at 70.1 mm. Average growth rate of these boars was 141 days adjusted to 100 kg. Sire was a Duroc AI stud boar.

Newell Colony is pleased with its progress in productivity with its Summit gilt herd. Pigs weaned per sow bred was 26.3 year to date (10.8 pigs weaned per litter), with improvement to 26.9 pigs weaned per sow (11.0 pigs weaned/litter) in the quarter July 25-October 16. Great work in both the breeding and farrowing barns!

Territory Managers

For more information, contact:

Manager	Territory	Cell Telephone
Les Robinson	Southern & Central Alberta	(250) 833-6196
Paul Klingeman	Pacific Northwest	(509) 989-1347
Mike Miller	Saskatchewan and Montana	(403) 317-0543

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