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American Landrace
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American Landrace is the United States’ lop-eared white Landrace, developed from Danish and other European Landrace imports and selected for extreme body length, prolificacy, and lean bacon-type carcasses. Sows are highly maternal; market pigs yield long loins and sides with light fat cover under intensive finishing. Culinary use matches mild commercial pork and curing: back bacon, gammon, fresh loin, and processing trim. American Landrace is primarily a purebred and hybrid maternal breed whose genetics appear in most US commodity pork rather than as a named gourmet product.
Also known as: American Landrace, Landrace, Landrace hybrid commercial pork
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History
Danish Landrace pigs were imported to the United States Department of Agriculture for evaluation and breeding.
Released and privately bred Landrace stock formed the foundation of the American Landrace breed.
The American Landrace Association organised pedigree recording and breed promotion nationwide.
American Landrace expanded rapidly as a maternal partner to Yorkshire and terminal sire lines.
Selection emphasised litter size, milk production, and carcass length for lean commercial pork.
American Landrace remained a pillar of hybrid sow genetics in intensive US production systems.