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Pig production, nutrition, COVID-19, and research, with Phil Hord from Hord Livestock.
This episode was published by Lauro Faccin & Laihane Almeida.
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“A lot of the contributing factors to mortality for both an infectious and non-infectious standpoint occur early on in that pigs’ life. Piglet birth weight, colostrum management, weaning age… those factors do have long-term impacts on the animal. It's the combination of this intertwined, extremely complicated, matrix that ultimately results in the observed mortality.” – Dr. Jordan Gebhardt.
Today's episode will cover “Wea...
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“You can have a state-of-the-art research facility or even the best ideas in the world. But if you don't have a good research staff at the slat level you don't have much. It's about people, and the role of the research staff is to accurately collect data at the farm and transfer that information timely to key stakeholders.” – Dr. Aaron Gaines.
Today’s episode will cover “Driving Innovation in a swine production system”.
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“Part of what I understand is happening is the foodservice buy bellies at 40 lb boxes. That stops. Retail goes in 1-lb packages. The system isn't geared up to do all those 1-lb packages. It's a redistribution. And that's is just an example of the challenge we have.” – Jim Long.
Today’s episode will cover “Global economy right now and how that affects pig producers”.
Our guest is Jim Long. Jim is a graduate of the Univers...
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“Really just driving home how important it is to practice social distancing even at the farm... Maybe that means staggering the start of the shift for each staff member as well as the break time so they are not congregating in the break room.” – Dr. Heather Fowler.
Today’s episode will cover “COVID-19 pandemic and its repercussions for pig producers”.
Our guest is Dr. Heather Fowler. Dr. Fowler completed her Veterinary M...
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I wanted to introduce you to the Swine.it Podcast Roundtable. This is a new series of episodes envisioned by Provimi and Swine.it, where we will have bonus episodes in a roundtable format with experts of the global swine industry tackling subjects that can influence the producer’s bottom line.
On this first episode, I chatted with Dr. Chad Pilcher and Mark Hulsebus, both from Provimi, about “Pig production in times of eco...
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“[…] There was no collaboration, tremendous conflict of interest and led to the quotation from the late Dr. Mike Murtaugh that “veterinary science is an oxymoron”. That was clearly true. It was very depressing. I am glad that has improved and we have seen improvement across many fronts.” – Dr. Scott Dee.
Today’s episode will cover “Swine veterinary applied research: the last 30 years and what the future holds”.
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