Countdown to Christmas Begins

Dec 01, 2014

Farms.com Countdown Calendar Connects Generations

You may not be an online gamer, but you are aware that the young people in your life enjoy the online world. That’s why the team at Farms.com is once again delighted to share our holiday countdown calendar. Simple enough for non-gamers, fun enough for all.

For the past several years, the team at Farms.com has had great fun during the holidays developing our Christmas online games. We are pleased once again to showcase a variety of these games in our countdown calendar. The team at Farms.com invites you to bookmark and visit the calendar each day to reveal the “game of the day”. Each day when you click on the appropriate day on the online calendar it will reveal a new family-friendly online game that you can share with family and friends.

“It’s our gift to the farming community,” says Farms.com President Graham Dyer. “I am proud to have so many talented people on the Farms.com team. Our marketing team comes up with the concepts, creative team makes the ideas beautiful and usable, the programming team makes everything work together, and finally the hosting team puts the calendar on the site for everyone in the farming community to enjoy. Happy Holidays from everyone in the Farms.com family to yours.”

The final reveal on the calendar will help everyone track Santa’s journey as he makes his way distributing gifts around the world. Follow us on twitter to link to the calendar each day.

Visit the countdown calendar each day to see a new online holiday game.

Video: Heat Stress in Pigs: What to Prepare for Before Next Summer - Dr. Joshua Selsby

In this episode of The Swine it Podcast Show Canada, Dr. Joshua Selsby from Iowa State University explains how heat stress affects swine biology and why now is the ideal time to prepare for next summer’s challenges. He breaks down its effects on muscle function, immune responses, and long-term metabolic outcomes. Learn how early planning can protect herd performance when temperatures rise again. Listen now on all major platforms! "Heat stress leads to a cascade of biological damage, beginning with metabolic disruption and expanding across multiple organ systems." Meet the guest: Dr. Joshua Selsby is a Professor in the Department of Animal Science at Iowa State University. With over 15 years of research on skeletal muscle physiology and heat stress, he focuses on understanding how thermal stress disrupts swine metabolism, immune function, and muscle integrity.