Trey Kellner, a swine nutritionist with AMVC joins us with tips on feed delivery and biosecurity at the finisher.

Formulating the proper diets to deliver optimal performance at a competitive price is the goal of most swine nutritionists. Creating that feeding program requires a clear understanding of the ...

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Watts grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota, with a strong involvement in her local FFA chapter and 4-H, despite not having a traditional agricultural background. She graduated from the University of ...

Dr. Amanda Anderson Reever, a veterinarian with Suidae Health and Production, walks us through how to extract fluids from tongue tips for diagnostic testing. She addresses how this technique has ...

With support from USDA, the Beef Checkoff Program and the United Soybean Board. U.S. beef and pork had a strong presence at the Yakiniku Business Fair, one of the most important annual trade shows for ...

In my 13 years working for Smithfield Hog Production, my primary focus has been leading research efforts to improve the company’s bottom line. Our team recently set out to find out how not adjusting ...

Last month when a small homestead farm in Oregon broke with the first porcine case of H5N1, many lessons were learned when dealing with the “transitional pigs,” says Ryan Scholz. While Oregon is not ...

The swine industry is constantly striving to improve pork production, with disease detection and surveillance being crucial areas of focus. An efficient surveillance approach that has gained ...

Survival Compared to piglet survival, industry wean-to-finish survival is relatively higher averaging 92 to 93% (Knauer and Hostetler, 2013). Yet on an individual pig level, a mortality in late ...

The work is the culmination of a two-and-a-half-year partnership between AURI and the USDA's Agriculture Marketing Service to build resiliency within the local and regional meat processing sector. The ...