2025 BFO Swag Shop

Jul 18, 2025

Looking to "beef" up your wardrobe or find a great gift idea? The annual BFO swag shop is now open and has you covered!

Until August 5th, our online shop will be open for a limited time to get you outfitted with your BFO and Ontario Beef gear. There are some great new items, and some old favourites as well! From cozy sweatshirts to fun socks and even belt buckles, there is something for everyone!

This year, we've added our 'listen. reflect. reconcile." t-shirts. As part of our commitment to truth and reconciliation, BFO created a t-shirt fundraiser. The proceeds from the sale of these orange shirts will be donated to Water First.

The store will remain open until August 5th. Once the webstore closes, all orders will be compiled, and production will begin. Product delivery times can take 4 - 6 weeks.

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Video: Screening Nursery Ingredients - Kynna Crawford

In this episode of The Swine Nutrition Blackbelt Podcast, Kynna Crawford, Graduate Research Assistant at South Dakota State University, discusses how Plackett-Burman designs can help screen nursery diet ingredients for early post-weaning feed intake. She explains why low intake after weaning contributes to stress and mortality, how screening trials can evaluate multiple ingredients in a single study, and how the approach can support both research and commercial nursery nutrition decisions. Listen now on all major platforms!

Click here to read the full research article: https://academic.oup.com/jas/article/...

"A single screening trial can help identify which nursery ingredients deserve deeper research for early post-weaning feed intake."

Meet the guest: Kynna Crawford / kynna-crawford-a2610a3aa is a Master's student in Animal Sciences at South Dakota State University, where her work focuses on swine nutrition and nursery pig management. Her research examines strategies to alleviate weaning stress, including dietary approaches and screening tools to identify ingredients that may promote early feed intake. Learn more from Kynna Crawford on The Swine Nutrition Blackbelt Podcast, available on all major platforms.