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KAP Hosts Mental Health Webinar

A webinar on mental health was hosted Friday by Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP).
 
Kim Hyndman-Moffat works for Canadian Suicide Prevention Services.
 
"COVID-19 has placed a lot of pressure on the cattle industry, it disrupted the supply chain, resulting in the backlog that we're all hearing about. Lower cattle prices, so there's a lot of folks concerned about that. I've heard different ones talking about the difficulties recruiting Temporary Foreign Workers because of COVID-19. Conditions that were dry to begin with, and then they turned to overland flooding over a course of a couple of days, that's set back a lot of producers too."
 
She says farming is one of most stressful jobs out there.
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Heat Stress in Pigs: What to Prepare for Before Next Summer - Dr. Joshua Selsby

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.