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The Truth About Porcine Circoviruses - Dr. Joaquim Segalés

The Truth About Porcine Circoviruses - Dr. Joaquim Segalés

The Swine it Podcast Show Canada, Dr. Joaquim Segalés, a professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and researcher at IRTA-CReSA, explores the ongoing challenges of porcine circoviruses. He explains the history and impact of PCV2, the criteria required for an accurate diagnosis, and why... More ›
Soybean Meal Utilization Survey - Dr. Bart Borg and Dr. Keenan McRoberts

Soybean Meal Utilization Survey - Dr. Bart Borg and Dr. Keenan McRoberts

The Swine Nutrition Blackbelt Podcast, Drs. McRoberts and Borg discuss the results of the recent U.S. Soy swine industry soybean meal utilization survey. Leading swine nutritionists provided feedback on their diet formulation practices in two areas – soybean meal net energy adjustments and the u... More ›
Who Gets Through the Door? Smarter Barn Biosecurity | Farm Health Guardian

Who Gets Through the Door? Smarter Barn Biosecurity | Farm Health Guardian

Who gets through the barn door, and how can producers ensure biosecurity protocols are being followed? In this SwineWeb Podcast episode, Adam from Farm Health Guardian explores how controlled-access technology is helping swine producers strengthen barn security, accountability, and disease pr... More ›
Next Mile Ep 1: Navigating Disease Prevention

Next Mile Ep 1: Navigating Disease Prevention

The Next Mile, host Dr. Meredith Petersen, Director of Swine Health at the National Pork Board, sits down with Dr. Cara Haden, Director of Animal Welfare and Biosecurity at Pipestone, to unpack the National Swine Health Strategy and what it means for producers across the country. Meredith wal... More ›
Season 7, Episode 6: Using Competitive Exclusion to Reduce E. coli in Weaned Pigs

Season 7, Episode 6: Using Competitive Exclusion to Reduce E. coli in Weaned Pigs

Newly weaned pigs are especially vulnerable to pathogenic E. coli, which can cause diarrhea and other health challenges. Research is exploring how introducing beneficial bacteria before exposure to harmful bacteria could help reduce the severity of post-weaning disease, with timing playing an im... More ›
Insights from the September 2026 USDA Quarterly Hogs and Pigs Report

Insights from the September 2026 USDA Quarterly Hogs and Pigs Report

Discover key takeaways from the September 2026 USDA Quarterly Hogs and Pigs report. Learn how record-setting on-farm productivity is helping offset the smallest September breeding herd since 2013 and fewest sows farrowing since 2002, but pig crops are smaller and market supply fundamentals suppo... More ›
Porcine Gut Models in Nutrition Research - Dr. Li-Hsuan Chen

Porcine Gut Models in Nutrition Research - Dr. Li-Hsuan Chen

In this episode of The Swine Nutrition Blackbelt Podcast, Dr. Li-Hsuan Chen, postdoc researcher at Aarhus University, discusses how porcine intestinal cell lines and organoids can help study the impact of nutrition on gut health. He explains how in vivo piglet trials identify diet-driven shifts ... More ›

What Makes Mycoplasma Elimination Work? - Dr. Dyneah Classen

What Makes Mycoplasma Elimination Work? - Dr. Dyneah Classen

In this episode of The Swine it Podcast Show Canada, Dr. Dyneah Classen, a veterinarian and partner with Carthage Veterinary Service, discusses practical strategies for eliminating Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae from sow herds. The conversation explains why successful programs depend on defining time ... More ›
What Happens When Pigs Adapt to High Soybean Meal Diets? - Gustavo Lima

What Happens When Pigs Adapt to High Soybean Meal Diets? - Gustavo Lima

In this special rerun episode of The Swine Nutrition Blackbelt Podcast, Gustavo Lima, PhD candidate in Animal Science at Iowa State University, discusses how grow-finish pigs respond to high soybean meal diets. He explains the initial drop in feed intake, changes in backfat, later adaptation, en... More ›
Welfare That Works on Farm - Dr. Anna Wallenbeck

Welfare That Works on Farm - Dr. Anna Wallenbeck

In this episode of The Swine it Podcast Show Canada, Dr. Anna Wallenbeck from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences discusses how producers can evaluate and improve pig welfare in practice. She discusses group housing, social behavior, transport, slaughter practices, welfare regulation... More ›
WPX26: Air filtration offers another line of defense against increasingly costly PRRS outbreaks

WPX26: Air filtration offers another line of defense against increasingly costly PRRS outbreaks

Rob Langenhorst, technical sales manager at AAF International, spoke to The Pig Site’s Sarah Mikesell at the 2026 World Pork Expo in Des Moines, Iowa, USA about the value of air filtration in swine and poultry barns.... More ›
Swine Biosecurity: 5 Critical Steps to Prevent Disease Transmission | LANXESS

Swine Biosecurity: 5 Critical Steps to Prevent Disease Transmission | LANXESS

Protecting herd health starts before anyone enters the barn. Every visitor, employee, piece of equipment and movement between farms can introduce disease risks if proper biosecurity protocols aren't followed. In this SwineWeb Biosecurity Intelligence feature, Dr. Gisele Ravagnani of LANXESS B... More ›
There’s a Whole Barn Buried Under This Field Now

There’s a Whole Barn Buried Under This Field Now

There's old hog barns under that field now. The old hog barn site on the farm has been sitting there for decades, and this is the week it finally came out: concrete pad, burn pile, charred lumber, all of it loaded into a CAT 725C rock truck and buried in a pit we dug back in the timber. Tork'... More ›
Berry Pomace and Weaning Stress - Astrid Pilgård Rasmussen

Berry Pomace and Weaning Stress - Astrid Pilgård Rasmussen

In this episode of The Swine Nutrition Blackbelt Podcast, Astrid Pilgård Rasmussen, PhD student in Animal Science at Aarhus University, discusses berry pomace as a feed ingredient for newly weaned pigs. She explains how berry byproducts may support gut health, oxidative stress response, diarrhea... More ›
Your Biosecurity Plan Needs To Move With Your People

Your Biosecurity Plan Needs To Move With Your People

Employees, visitors, contractors and service providers move between farms every day. Rob Hannam, CEO of Farm Health Guardian, joins SwineWeb to discuss people biosecurity and how technology and real-time data can make established protocols easier to manage, verify and improve across production s... More ›
When Should We Assist a Farrowing Sow? - Dr. Alexander Grahofer

When Should We Assist a Farrowing Sow? - Dr. Alexander Grahofer

In this episode of The Swine it Podcast Show Canada, Dr. Alexander Grahofer, Senior Lecturer and Scientist at the Clinic for Swine, Vetsuisse Faculty Bern, examines how modern sow biology is challenging long-standing farrowing guidelines. He discusses piglet-to-piglet intervals, obstetrical inte... More ›
 Season 7, Episode 5: Understanding Hog Trailer Contamination and Re-Contamination

Season 7, Episode 5: Understanding Hog Trailer Contamination and Re-Contamination

Biosecurity and foreign animal disease preparedness extends beyond the farm. This episode looks at the risk of contamination on hog trailers as pigs move from different parts of the state to harvest plants. In this episode, Dr. Cesar Corzo, associate professor at the University of Minnesota a... More ›
We Let Dad Drive a 50,000 Pound Dump Truck

We Let Dad Drive a 50,000 Pound Dump Truck

There's old hog barns under that field now. The old hog barn site on the farm has been sitting there for decades, and this is the week it finally came out: concrete pad, burn pile, charred lumber, all of it loaded into a CAT 725C rock truck and buried in a pit we dug back in the timber. Tork'... More ›
Learning to Wrench From Dad the Hard Way

Learning to Wrench From Dad the Hard Way

Harvest is a week out and the farm picked this week to fall apart. The truck needs a battery, the barn curtain's got a problem, and the corn and beans are telling us we're out of time to get it all fixed. So it's a full day of wrenching. Tork supervises while I get the truck back running, the... More ›
Refeeding Syndrome After Weaning - Dr. Theo van Kempen

Refeeding Syndrome After Weaning - Dr. Theo van Kempen

In this episode of The Swine Nutrition Blackbelt Podcast, Dr. Theo van Kempen, an independent consultant with extensive swine nutrition and product development experience, explains how refeeding syndrome can affect newly weaned piglets. He discusses phosphate depletion, edema, intestinal health,... More ›
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