''Sharing, integrating, and extracting valuable information from swine industry data is a big challenge today.'' Dr. Guilherme Rosa
What you'll learn:
1. The challenges of incorporating precision technology
2. Inputs and outputs
3. Amounts of data needed
4. Types of information
5. Small producers and big data
6. Next steps
Meet the guest: Guilherme Rosa obtained his M.S.in Animal Sciences from Sao Paulo State University (UNESP) - Brazil in 1994, and a Ph.D. in statistics and Agric...
''We are asking a lot of our sows. The sows don't produce enough milk to sustain maximum growth of the piglet. They don't produce enough colostrum in a lot of cases, so now we need to change our focus. We need to put our focus not only on litter size but also on the milking capacity of the sow.'' - Dr. Chantal Farmer
What you'll learn:
1. Mammary tissue development
2. Soybean meal in the diet
3. Types of fiber that influence milk and colostrum yield
4. Amounts of colostrum
5. Colostr...
"When we speak about PRRS, the only thing we can really be sure of is its variability." - Dr. Giovani Trevisan
What you'll learn:
1. The new PRRS virus strain
2. Is the virus lasting longer?
3. Progression of this strain
4. Biosecurity measures
5. Trends and patterns with other diseases
6. Online information
Meet the guest: Dr. Trevisan obtained his DVM diploma in the veterinary faculty of Lages, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, in 2009, and his MBA in Rio Grande Do Sul,...
"We are slowly but surely generating the tools to understand better dietary fiber and how to utilize it best" - Dr. Tom Weber
What you'll learn:
1. The use of fiber in the US swine industry
2. Fiber in gestation
3. Options for good quality components
4. Methods of fiber analysis
5. Ratios for formulating diets
6. Total Digestible Fiber (TDF)
7. Mode of action of fiber in sows
8. Fiber in lactation
9. Amino acids in high-fiber diets
10. Fiber in early nursery
11. Inso...
"The most important thing is clearly stating your objectives, regarding measuring and what you're trying to improve." - Dr. Caleb Shull
What you'll learn:
1. Research that has been published
2. Deciding which product to research
3. Onboarding with farm employees
4. Studying the design process
5. Replication
6. Data collection
7. Handling marketing components
8. Economics
9. Closeout data vs. Controlled studies
10. Biggest opportunities
Meet the guest: As director of research an...
"We must improve our marketing strategies to minimize weight variation in the packing plants." – Dr. Matt Ritter
What you'll learn:
- Why body weight variation is a concern
- Money and managing variation
- Factors that influence body weight variation
- Expected level of variation within a population
- Variation as the pig gets older
- Variation in a late finishing barn
- How to mitigate variation
- The post-weaning body weight coefficient of variation.
- Recommendations for setting up a barn
- T...
''The good news is that the pigs are one of the most developed species in terms of biotechnology, genetic modification, and disease detection.'' - Dr Guillermo Ramis
What you'll learn:
1. Xenotransplantation
2. Challenges
3. Components and proteins targeted
4. Achieving a succesful liver transplant
5. Survivability of a litter of modified pigs
6. Survivability of the transplant itself
7. Animal weight vs Receiver weight
8. Public acceptance
Meet the guest: Dr. Ramis rece...