Pork Story

SYMBOL III – Adopted in 2005
SYMBOL III is an ideal market hog that symbolizes
profitability for every segment of the industry. This
hog has correctness of structure, production,
performance, function, livability, attitude, health, and
optimum lean yield. SYMBOL III also produces the best quality, safest pork that provides the optimum nutrients for human nutrition.

Production Characteristics
• Live-weight feed efficiency of 2.4 (2.4)

• Fat-free lean gain efficiency of 5.9 (5.8)

• Fat-free lean gain of 0.95 lbs. per day

• Marketed at 156 (164) days of age

• Weighing 270 pounds

• All achieved on a corn-soy equivalent diet from 60 pounds

• Free of all internal and external parasites

• From a high health production system

• Immune to or free of all economically important swine diseases

• Produced with Environmental Assurance

• Produced under PQA™ & TQA™ Guidelines

• Produced in an operation which has been SWAPSM
assessed

• FREE of the Stress Gene (Halothane 1843 mutation)
and all other genetic mutations that have a detrimental
effect on pork quality.






 

 • Result of a systematic crossbreeding system, emphasizing a maternal dam line and a terminal sire selected for growth, efficiency and superior muscle quality

• From a maternal line weaning >25 pigs/year after
multiple parities

• Free of all abscesses, injection site blemishes, arthritis, bruises and carcass trim

• Structurally correct and sound with proper angulation
and cushion and a phenotypic design perfectly matched to the production environment

• Produced in a production system that ensures the
opportunity for stakeholder profitability from the producer to retailer while providing a cost competitive product retail price in all domestic and export markets

• Produced from genetic lines that have utilized genomic technology to support maximum improvement in genetic profitability and efficiency
Carcass Characteristics

• Hot carcass wt of 205 lbs.

• LMA of 6.5 (7.1) sq. in.

• Belly thickness of 1.0 inches

• 10th rib backfat of 0.7 (0.6) inch

• Fat-Free Lean Index is 53.0 (54.7) Quality Characteristics

• Muscle color score of 4.0

• 24-hour pH of 5.9

• Maximum drip loss of 2.5%

• Intramuscular fat level of 3.0%

• Free of within muscle color variation and coarse muscle texture

• Free of ecchymosis (blood splash)

• Provides an optimum balance of nutrients important for human nutrition and health

• Provides a safe, wholesome product free of all violative residues and produced and processed in a system that ensures elimination of all food borne pathogens

Note: All numbers in parentheses represent gilt numbers corresponding to the barrow numbers shown