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“The science that shows viruses can live in the feed has being replicated so many times, over some many different viruses. I think that’s 100% science, there’s no question about that. But there are quite a few things we don’t understand yet, so there’s quite a bit of art.” – Dr. Scott Dee
What you will learn:
- A brief history behind feed biosecurity;
- The biggest learnings from recent times;
- Minimizing risk in impo...
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“Ammonia levels, stocking density, number of pigs per caregiver, type of floor, and timeliness of feed supply are the 5 biggest factors affecting tail-biting” – Dr. Flaviana Gottardo and Dr. Annalisa Scollo
What you will learn:
- What is the impact of each of the different factors?
- Experiences from a practical standpoint;
- Practical recommendations for producers;
- What is still needed from a research perspective.
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Managing pig growth during special conditions, with Dr. John Patience.
Dr. Patience is a global leader in swine nutrition research and internationally recognized speaker, received the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Outstanding Achievement in Research Award. Received his bachelor's degree in 1974 and his master's degree in 1976 from the University of Guelph, Ontario. He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Corn...
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“I think for a while the gilt development was a forgotten piece of the sow system and I think it is our greatest potential for improvements in sow reproduction and lifetime performance. We need to start paying more attention there.” – Dr. Kara Stewart
Today’s episode will cover “Back to the basics in gilt development”.
What you will learn:
- Boar exposure in gilt development
- Optimal weight, age, and number of estruse...
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“The size of the virus isn't as important [to make a vaccine], it’s how complex it is. Coronavirus and Circovirus are not very complex. African Swine Fever and Pseudorabies are complex.” – Christopher Chase
Our guest is Dr. Christopher Chase. Dr. Chase is Professor from the Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, South Dakota State University (SDSU), he is a native of Sisseton, SD, and attended SDSU. He received...
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“You know what those maximum performances are for average daily gain, and we have very good models for that. If I go to 90% or 87% percent or whatever that number is, how slow can I bring those pigs, and what’s the impact on feed efficiency?” – Dr. Chad Hastad
Our guest is Dr. Chad Hastad, with Bachelor’s degree in Animal Sciences (South Dakota State University) and a Masters and Ph.D. in Swine Nutrition (Kansas State Uni...
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“These algorithms are oftentimes much better than humans at finding patterns from massive amounts of data. One algorithm predicts mortality events a week in advance and it warns users that they're going to have a problem a week ahead of these mortality events happening.” – Chris Bomgaars
Our guest is Chris Bomgaars. Chris grew up in Orange City, Iowa, and in 2008, he saw an opportunity to join the family pork production b...