We continue to adjust amino acid requirements to meet the needs of sows for growth or protein synthesis. Being able to model those requirements is a critical piece of a nutritionist’s job. That is the focus of Christian Ramirez’s work, and he and I talk about it in this episode to discuss how the performance of a gestating sow could improve with additional nutrients.

Meet the guest: Christian Ramirez is a Ph.D. student at South Dakota State University. He received his M.S. in Animal Scie...

I am back with a third episode with Dr. Daniel Linhares and Dr. Giovani Trevisan to discuss what they recommend in times of a PRRSV outbreak and how best to respond. PRRSV can seriously impact the economic and welfare status of your farm, and handling those issues is essential for maximizing productivity and income. Listen to the results of this study to learn how best to respond if your farm has the unfortunate reality of testing PRRSV positive.

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Dr. Daniel Linhares is...

Research is one of the most important ongoing goals of the swine industry. Performing these large-scale trials helps us find the best ways to keep our growth performance strong and our pigs healthy. In this episode, I talk with Dr. Brandi Burton about her field research trials on mycoplasma inoculation and mortality correlated biomarkers as well as good practices and mindsets we need to have as researchers, veterinarians, and nutritionists alike.

What you will learn:

1. Current field res...

Morning - your weekly 9-minute swine nutrition research update is here: As we continue to genetically select for sows to produce more pigs, it is important that we ensure they are getting adequate milk from the sow, but there may be more ways to help this other than maximizing feed intake during lactation. In this episode, I talk with Dr. Chantal Farmer about her recent study on increasing lysine in the gestation period to further increase mammary development in gestating gilts and hopefully con...

Hi Doc - your weekly 9-minute swine health research update is here:

One important step in discovering a solution to PRRS, is first trying to figure out where in the world all these variants are coming from. That is what Dr. Nakarin Pamornchainavakul is trying to do. In this episode, he and I talk about his work trying to track the ancestry of PRRS L1C 144 to better understand how it spread and how this virus mutated to its current variant.

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Dr. Nakarin Pamornchainavakul ...

Ever since Covid began, grain and hog prices have been a whirlwind of fluctuations that have had some serious impacts on swine production. With the current market having seen such large fluctuations in price, it is important that we understand where we are at and where we will be in the next quarter. In this episode, I talk with Joe Kerns about those exact topics: where we are economically, where we may be in late 2022 and early 2023, and what we should do to best increase our net revenue as an ...

PRRSV and E. coli continue to remain a problem for farms everywhere, and nursery pigs, with their often underdeveloped immune systems, can take a major toll if infected. In this episode, I talk with Jenna Bromm about her work at Kansas State University studying the effects of alpha-linolenic acid supplementation in nursery pigs infected with PRRSV or E. coli to see if it can help alleviate the reduced growth typically seen in affected pigs.

Meet the guest: Jenna Bromm is a master's studen...