Raising PIGS for BEGINNERS! [In-Depth Guide]
Jul 24, 2023

Video: Raising PIGS for BEGINNERS! [In-Depth Guide]

Pig Farm Training: Raising Pigs for Beginners If you're raising pastured pigs, you know that getting started can be tough. Luckily, we've created an in-depth beginners guide to raising pigs, starting with unloading pigs on your farm for the first time! Before you start raising pigs for meat, you've got to know how to care for piglets - and this video is the perfect tool for training piglets! This installment in the Pig Farm Training series covers topics like preparing your piglet barn, receiving new piglets, and training your pigs for pasture
 

Raising PIGS for BEGINNERS! [In-Depth Guide]

Raising PIGS for BEGINNERS! [In-Depth Guide]

Pig Farm Training: Raising Pigs for Beginners If you're raising pastured pigs, you know that getting started can be tough. Luckily, we've created an in-depth beginners guide to raising pigs, starting with unloading pigs on your farm for the first time! Before you start raising pigs for meat, you... More
Portrait of a Stockman: Everett Forkner, Missouri pork producer

Portrait of a Stockman: Everett Forkner, Missouri pork producer

Congratulations to our past president and Missouri pork producer Everett Forkner on his induction into the National Swine Registry's Saddle and Sirloin Club. This recognition is one of the highest honors bestowed to stockmen and women in the country. Through his years in the purebred swine indus... More
ESCAPED! - How We Recover a Loose Pig

ESCAPED! - How We Recover a Loose Pig

ESCAPED! - How We Recover a Loose Pig One of our big sows got out of her paddock! Here's how we got her back in.... More
Wrangling Pigs and Grumpy Old Tractors

Wrangling Pigs and Grumpy Old Tractors

The final answer to, "Is Bossy Pig pregnant?" And getting the oldest tractors on the farm running to move them to the machinery barn.... More
Weather Watch with Meteorologist Matt Makens

Weather Watch with Meteorologist Matt Makens

Meteorologist Matt Makens has a look at ??? in this week’s Weather Watch.... More
Cattle Markets - Mike Briggs - July 21, 2023

Cattle Markets - Mike Briggs - July 21, 2023

He is one of the most requested guests that we have here on the show. On Wednesday, we traveled to Seward to catch up with our friend Mike Briggs from Briggs Feed yard. Here is his take on the cattle markets.... More
Market to Market - July 21, 2023

Market to Market - July 21, 2023

Wet weather in the East is offset by scorching temperatures in the West. The Black Sea grain deal is on hold. We’ll look at what’s next. Plus, drones deliver an unusual package to farmers. And, market analysis with Elaine Kub.... More

Living Pathways: A Complete Growers Guide

Living Pathways: A Complete Growers Guide

In this week's video we do a complete breakdown of living pathways, covering everything from how to prepare the paths, how to manage them and what to grow.... More
We Had to Swath The Corn

We Had to Swath The Corn

Planting double crop, swathing hay, and swathing corn?... More
Signs of Nutrient Deficient Corn

Signs of Nutrient Deficient Corn

Brian Arnall, OSU Extension precision nutrient management specialist, discusses the signs of nutrient deficient corn.... More
Silaging

Silaging

Silaging | | 3D Ranch Manitoba... More
Will and estate planning: What farmers need to know

Will and estate planning: What farmers need to know

You have a legal will. Now, one of the major decisions to make is choosing an executor. As a farm owner, what should you know? Join Dr. Tom Deans, intergenerational wealth expert, for a virtual event as he walks you through some of the will and estate planning issues unique to farm owners, like ... More
An Enriched Barn Renovation with Planeview Farms

An Enriched Barn Renovation with Planeview Farms

Canada has made a commitment to hen welfare and is phasing out conventional cages, replacing them with innovative enriched housing, or cage-free housing. By 2036 all conventional cages will have been replaced. Making the transition from conventional cages to a different type of housing is not... More
Inside a free-run aviary system

Inside a free-run aviary system

In Barn #2, another day has started for Kurt and Harley Siemens’ hens. The lights slowly start to come on at 3 a.m., signaling to the hens that it’s time to start waking up. The hens lay their eggs 1-5 hours after they wake up, and each hen lays approximately one egg per day. After the hens lay ... More
HOW TO SAVE MONEY WITH CHICKEN LITTER FERTILIZER

HOW TO SAVE MONEY WITH CHICKEN LITTER FERTILIZER

Chicken litter can be an excellent fertilizer! It makes good use of something you may already have on your farm. You can use it yourself or make extra cash selling it to others. It works so well as a fertilizer because it contains the three nutrients that are included in most conventional fertil... More
Big JOHN DEERE Tractors Spreading Chicken Litter

Big JOHN DEERE Tractors Spreading Chicken Litter

Big Tractor Power is out in the field with a fleet of JOHN DEERE 9R, 8R and 7R series tractors ranging from 230 to 620 horse power. During this video you will see these big tractors working working together to load, spread and incorporate chicken litter on a 700 acre field.... More
Spreading chicken litter

Spreading chicken litter

In this video we show you how we spread chicken litter. We are using our 8R250 to pull our chicken litter spreader, and our 7430 to load it.... More
Creative Farming a By-Product of Poor Weather

Creative Farming a By-Product of Poor Weather

A Newton County farm endured heavy losses due to Mother Nature. However, resilience and an innovative approach kept the farm sustained, and helped create some popular value-added products.... More
Market Monitor

Market Monitor

Kim Anderson, OSU Extension grain marketing specialist, breaks down the latest WASDE report.... More
Farm Bill Delegation

Farm Bill Delegation

With only a few months to go before the current legislation expires, conversations about the Farm Bill are heating up. The University of Nebraska - Lincoln recently hosted the Nebraska Federal Delegation to help the lawmakers better understand the research and innovation taking place at the Land... More
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