Training program for swine barn workers

Oct 24, 2025

An online training platform for swine barn workers will be discussed at the upcoming Saskatchewan Pork Symposium.

The PigLEARN is an online program to help farms manage, coordinate, and track their training programs.

Mark Fynn is the Training Resources Coordinator with the Canadian Pork Council (CPC). He said the CPC has developed 86 different training modules with another ten to be delivered soon.

“The platform hosts that material and allows people to get a user account, log in, participate in that training, learn some best management practices as advised by a number of producers and other swine sector experts,” he said. “It also allows companies, if they want to, to administer their own groups of users and even upload their own training content to the platform.”

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