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FCC Workshop Coming To High River

Farm Credit Canada is holding a tax workshop for agricultural producers in High River later this month.
 
This workshop, Tax and the Corporate Farm, will take an in-depth look at taxation and farm corporations, whether long incorporated, just considering it or ready to wind down.
 
It'll be held on January 16th from 9:00 a.m. to noon at the Heritage Inn.
 
The guest speaker is Lance Stockbrugger, a chartered accountant with over 20 years of experience in public practice working directly with agriculture producers.
He operates a cereal, oilseed and pulse farm in central Saskatchewan.
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Validating Net Energy in Commercial Swine Systems - Gustavo Lima

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In this episode of The Swine Nutrition Blackbelt Podcast, Gustavo Lima, PhD candidate at Iowa State University, explains how soybean meal net energy is evaluated using growth assays and calorimetry. He discusses caloric efficiency, validation under commercial conditions, and differences between controlled and real-world environments. Gustavo also highlights practical implications for diet formulation and ingredient valuation. Listen now on all major platforms!

“Indirect calorimetry provides a precise estimation of ingredient energy, yet validation under production conditions remains essential for accurate application in real systems.”

Meet the guest: Gustavo Lima / gustavo-lima-a9867127 is a PhD candidate in Animal Science at Iowa State University, specializing in swine nutrition, ingredient evaluation, and energy metabolism. With over 15 years of experience across Latin America, his work focuses on soybean meal utilization, caloric efficiency, and applied research for commercial production systems.