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How Should We Manage Sows’ Diets During Summer?

How Should We Manage Sows’ Diets During Summer?

Dr. Holmes explores the conventional way of managing lactating sows’ diet during summer. After the lysine adjustment, fat is the focus, since it is a very concentrated source of energy and presents a lower heat increment in the sow’s metabolism. She then shares some thoughts on alternative ways ... More
Farm Girl

Farm Girl's First Time Sorting Pigs

Sawyer and Tork are the force behind their family farm taking care of pigs, along with farming the family’s acres. Together, they promote agriculture in a positive light by recording their day-to-day life’s on the farm.... More
Lactating sows in the summer heat - how do we keep their feed intake high

Lactating sows in the summer heat - how do we keep their feed intake high

With the summer getting closer pig farmers will need to start worrying about the effects of heat stress on their pigs. It can have a large impact on the productivity of the animals, especially for sows in lactation as maintaining high feed intake is critical.... More
Chloe Hagen: Compensatory gain following nutrient restriction - how well can pigs recover?

Chloe Hagen: Compensatory gain following nutrient restriction - how well can pigs recover?

Covid caused a lot of issues in the swine industry that we were unprepared for especially in regard to meat packing plants shutting down for periods of time leaving farmers with no one to sell their pigs at market weight.... More
Follow the Hog Farmers

Follow the Hog Farmers

Join Manitoba hog farmers, Andrea Elias and Craig Sawatzky, and learn all about how they raise their pigs and work hard to provide healthy meat for our tables... More
Chloe Hagen: Compensatory gain following nutrient restriction - how well can pigs recover?

Chloe Hagen: Compensatory gain following nutrient restriction - how well can pigs recover?

Covid caused a lot of issues in the swine industry that we were unprepared for especially in regard to meat packing plants shutting down for periods of time leaving farmers with no one to sell their pigs at market weight. Hopefully something like this will never happen again, but if it does it i... More
Follow the Farmers - Hogs

Follow the Farmers - Hogs

Join Manitoba hog farmers, Andrea Elias and Craig Sawatzky, and learn all about how they raise their pigs and work hard to provide healthy meat for our tables... More

Improving Communication In The Swine Industry, With Chris Bomgaars

Improving Communication In The Swine Industry, With Chris Bomgaars

We are always trying to find better ways to understand what the pigs are telling us. Are we doing the same with our teammates? As Chris rightly points out, we need to find a common language so anyone can understand or use proper tools to translate that. What can we do to improve communication?... More
Wild Pigs : A threat to the Canadian pork sector. How can we reduce it - NISAW 2022

Wild Pigs : A threat to the Canadian pork sector. How can we reduce it - NISAW 2022

This webinar recording is one of seven webinars held during the 2022 Winter National Invasive Species Awareness Week (NISAW) from February 28 to March 4, 2022 in Canada.... More
Sorting Pigs & Planting Corn

Sorting Pigs & Planting Corn

First Day Of Planting Corn 2022: In this one the boys start off the day with loading up David’s planter to start on day 2 of planting. Then they head to the hog barn to do some sorting of the fallback pigs. While Tork and Sawyer do that David is finishing up planting the corn acres.... More
Lysine recommendations for grow-finish pigs - maybe we aren

Lysine recommendations for grow-finish pigs - maybe we aren't feeding enough - Rafe Royall

Nutrient recommendations constantly need to be reviewed and updated as genetics change over the years. Lysine, being one of the most critical nutrients pigs receive, definitely deserves some special attention. In this episode, Rafe Royall and I talk about his study identifying the optimal lysine... More
Findings on supplementing calcium in the sow diet, with Dr. Tom Crenshaw

Findings on supplementing calcium in the sow diet, with Dr. Tom Crenshaw

Dr. Tom Crenshaw is a Professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In this episode, Dr. Crenshaw shares some exciting results from his and his team's research on supplementing calcium in the sow diet and the current ratios used in the swine industry.... More
What grains in swine feed may be providing more energy than we predict? - Dr. Ruurd Zijlstra

What grains in swine feed may be providing more energy than we predict? - Dr. Ruurd Zijlstra

Accurately defining our nutrient loadings when formulating diets is essential for nutritionists. If we are not accounting for enough enough energy from hindgut fermentation, we may be over feeding energy during certain stages of production.... More
Dr. Brent Sexton: Utilizing different PEDv vaccination strategies in sow herds

Dr. Brent Sexton: Utilizing different PEDv vaccination strategies in sow herds

Even with different types of vaccines available for PEDv, it still is a common issue that swine farms struggle with. In this episode, Dr. Clayton Johnson interviews Dr. Brent Sexton about his experiencies with PEDv vaccines and how he has been utilizing a different vaccination method to try and ... More
Weaning Pigs & Prepping for Corn Planting

Weaning Pigs & Prepping for Corn Planting

We weaned 1360 pigs and worked on getting equipment ready for planting corn.... More
The Interactions Between Pig Birth Weight And Phenotype, With Jennifer Patterson

The Interactions Between Pig Birth Weight And Phenotype, With Jennifer Patterson

Having worked with genetics for a long time, Jennifer brings the discussion addresses this hot topic in pig production: the relationship between birth weight and phenotype. As she says, it’s critical to look at the efficiency of good gilt development to pay attention to birth weights and identif... More
Hog Barn Fixing

Hog Barn Fixing

Hog Barn Fixing: In this one the boys do some hog barn fixing on one of the feedlines out under the bin. The pigs are hungry and there’s only one thing that’ll get it going… a new anchor bearing!... More
Targeting specific digestion kinetics to optimize nursery pig performance and health

Targeting specific digestion kinetics to optimize nursery pig performance and health

Zinc oxide is a wonderful tool for nursery pigs. However, there have been concerns about the environmental impact ZnO can have. Several research studies have been performed to identify potential alternatives to ZnO that are more environmentally friendly.... More
What does this new PRRSV classification tool provide for swine producers and veterinarians?

What does this new PRRSV classification tool provide for swine producers and veterinarians?

Disease classification is a very important aspect for both swine producers and veterinarians. It helps provide a roadmap for how to manage viruses within herds, and PRRSV has been a major problem for the swine industry for many years.... More
Chris Bomgaars: Integration and execution - advancing technology in the swine industry

Chris Bomgaars: Integration and execution - advancing technology in the swine industry

The swine industry is in need of applied & novel technologies to save money for both producers and consumers. In this episode, we have the pleasure of speaking with Chris Bomgaars about different ways we can begin to implement technology into the barns and ways we can use it to get the most out ... More
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