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Landrace
Primitive or antique variety usually associated with traditional agriculture. Often highly adapted to local conditions. (source: WCMC) Background from Wikipedia Landrace refers to a race of animals or plants ideally suited for the land (environment) in which they live and, in some cases, work; they often develop naturally with minimal assistance or guidance from humans (or from humans using traditional rather than modern breeding methods), hence are usually older, less modern races. Toledo Blade,At his farm near Delta, Mr. Meintzer raised purebred Landrace swine. He enjoyed showing hogs at the Ohio and Indiana state fairs as well as at the National �页�调色版 - Sep 25, 2007 金�界,Suffolk, Hampshire, Dorset & Cheviot in order 9 am National Hereford Show 9 am Breeding Swine: Duroc, Landrace, Yorkshire, Spotted Swine, & Poland China More foreign firms are joining Agrilink - Sep 24, 2007 Manila Bulletin,The BPA maintains the herd books of both traditional and modern breeds like Berkshire, British Landrace, British Saddleback, Duroc, Gloucestershire Old College’s high welfare unit attracts big interest from the pig ... - Oct 12, 2007 Farmers Guardian,JSR Genepacker cross gilts, bred from Large White, Landrace and Duroc lines, are used and these are put to a JSR Titan (Pietrain) boar. College Celebrates Unique High-Welfare Pig Unit - Oct 5, 2007 ThePigSite.com,The company supply the unit with Genepacker Gold X gilts, bred from Large White, Landrace and Duroc lines. To maximise hybrid vigour, the JSR Titan boar Compart hog business started 58 years ago - Oct 2, 2007 Agri News,Now the Compart brothers raise Duroc, Yorkshire and Landrace pigs on their operation, Compart's Boar Store, on four nucleus-level farms that are generating Lacombe swine is poster pig for endangered farm animals - Sep 23, 2007 Edmonton Journal,Today, about 200 pigs at a few Alberta farms are all that's left of the species, a cross of the Landrace, Berkshire and Chester White breeds that produced 'It's the only living thing that looks good with ginger hair' - Aug 7, 2007 ic Wales,The Pietrain x Landrace boys are about four weeks ahead of the Tamworth gilts and they’re in adjoining fields. It’s like watching a bunch of schoolboys Down to earth with the Tamworth tingle - Jul 30, 2007 ic Wales,The six Landrace x Pietrain weaners – all being reared for meat – are pink with a few black spots and look disappointing plain compared to the 4-H/FFA livestock auction generates $80055 - Jul 31, 2007 Clarion News,4Johnathan A. Ferringer, 4-H, son of Amy D. Ferringer, New Bethlehem, Reserve Champion Swine Carcass, Landrace, 265 pounds, purchased by Redbank Chevrolet Pig unit revolutionised by computer-controlled feed - Jul 27, 2007 Farmers Guardian,About 80 purebred Landrace sows are kept and put to Large White boars, using AI to breed replacements. These crossbred gilts are then put to a JSR Yorker Indian farmers against patenting of seeds - Mar 29, 2007 Checkbiotech.org (press release),Chaudhary was one of the appellant who recently got the EPO to revoke patent on Indian wheat landrace - Nap Hal.“Validating the patent on the Broccoli would There is humility to be learned in observing the adorable pig - Feb 15, 2007 MyWestTexas.com,...gilts and sows or by breeds such as theYorkshire, Chester White, Landrace, Duroc and Hampshire - you may appreciate the humanity of the adorable pig. A good year for pork - Feb 14, 2007 San Jose Mercury News,The Landrace and Yorkshire (which has the least amount of back fat) began as bacon pigs and also have become meat pigs. Although most specialty pork is Pigging out appropriate for Lunar New Year - Feb 14, 2007 The Argus,The Landrace and Yorkshire (which has the least amount of back fat) began as bacon pigs and have also become meat pigs. Of the pure breeds, the Berkshire is Cooks rediscover the joy of recipes that use pig fat - Mar 6, 2007 Rutland Herald,Cox said he raises "triple-cross" pigs — a hybrid of the Duroc, Landrace and Yorkshire breeds. Thus far, he said he has sold fatback, but he is likely to Van Roekels named Iowa Master Pork Producers - Feb 27, 2007 Agri News,The York/Landrace cross pigs spend eight weeks in the nursery building and then are moved to a finisher. These buildings are on the farm where the Van Cowan family willing to take in piglets that survived crash - Dec 19, 2006 Muncie Star Press,The Buchanan's raise Landrace and Spot breed show pigs on their farm off of Delaware County 500-S. The family would keep any piglets from the wreck separate Earthy fresh taste doesn't have to cost so much - Dec 13, 2006 San Francisco Chronicle,That's no surprise, because the people who invented all this stuff, the heirloom produce, the Landrace livestock breeds and the ways to grow it all, Composite sheep breeding revolution - Nov 29, 2006 Stuff.co.nz,In an experiment aimed at making the Romney wool finer they introduced some Finnish Landrace genetics. The wool trial wasn'ta success, but the Finn, Detection of 2 -Adrenergic Receptors in Brain of Living Pig with ... - Nov 30, 2006 Journal of Nuclear Medicine (subscription)Methods: Yorkshire x Landrace pigs weighing 35–40 kg were used in the study. Baseline and postchallenge PET recordings of 11 C-yohimbine in pig brain were Producer faces new challenges with SPF herd - Oct 6, 2006 High Plains Journal,...down to a few breeds. Today Roth crosses white-line sows with a York-Landrace boar or a Duroc or Pietrain boar. "I grew up raising ... Battle of the dags - Oct 4, 2006 Stuff.co.nz,Dr Scobie says the genes for the new sheep are hiding in the national flock. "Any breeder who has used Texel, East Friesian or Finnish Landrace, or composites ... Millers have historic time at Minnesota State Fair - Oct 4, 2006 Agri News,For a few years, Lo-Mill Farms was only Durocs, but Larry said he started having Yorkshires in the early 1970s and added Landrace and Hampshire in the mid- to ... Raising a champion - Sep 15, 2006 Prince George Free Press,You raise the lamb knowing it is going to market.�. Lakewood Secondary school student, Angel Namox raised a Yorkshire/Landrace pig for her 4-H project. ... News index | RSS | News Feed Advertisements: Organic Apparel from Patagonia | Insect-repelling clothing |
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