Animal and Range Sciences Facilities

Swine Unit

The SDSU Swine Unit, located north of Campus, provides many educational opportunities. The Unit focuses mainly on research which in turn provides current data for students in Swine Production classes as well as other animal science classes. The Swine Unit supplies hogs for livestock judging and evaluation classes as well as for the Little International.

The Swine Unit's main barn opened in 1992 and includes gestation, farrowing and nursery rooms for a 130 sow production unit. The herd consists of Large White/Landrace sows and Duroc/Hampshire boars. The finishing barn has a capacity of 240 growing-finishing pigs.

Personnel:  Dean Peters, Farm Manager
                    B.S. Animal Sciences, Washington State University, 1980
                    M.S. Animal Sciences, Washington State University, 1983
Contact:  605-688-5616 (phone)
                e-mail:  dean.peters@sdstate.edu
                                
Augene International