Having a Plan Helps Reduce Weaning-Pig Stress

Your new nursery pigs have one job: To eat and grow. Your task is to manage their environment in such a way to minimize stress as they adjust to a different social structure and a solid diet.

How to leverage multiple tools to ward off rotavirus infection

Partnering the right vaccine with sanitation and hygiene measures can head off a lot of headaches in your farrowing space.

Monitor Feed Flow for Your Herd’s Best Nutrient Delivery

Good feed execution means one thing: getting the right feed, in the right amount, to the right pigs at the right time every day, on every farm.

Cameras enhance farm biosecurity education, audits

Not removing shoes in the proper spot or showering in incorrectly before entering a farm. Not properly sanitizing your lunch when coming into work on the farm in the morning. Letting wean pigs you’re loading for transport come off the trailer back into the farm.

These are some everyday ways swine producers can breach biosecurity protocols.

Inside the Product Supply Chain: How Smarter Deliveries Protect Your Herd

Streamlining deliveries and managing biosecurity risks that comes with supply deliveries can be narrowed down to a few key habits.

What to Do With All That Data? We’re Finding the Answers

Early adopters have been amassing and recording data for a quarter-century or so. How do we turn that data into information, and information into knowledge?

Practical strategies to maximize sow efficiency

Finding the right balance between taking beneficial preventative measures and not spending an over-budgeted amount on pharmaceuticals

An Old Parasite Makes a New Comeback Through North America

As a pork producer, you can’t personally control how far north the New World screwworm advances, but you can protect your own operations and interests as much as possible.

A sound risk management strategy is music to producers’ ears

Finding the right balance between taking beneficial preventative measures and not spending an over-budgeted amount on pharmaceuticals

Oats and More: Give Your Nursery Pig Diets a Healthy Boost

Finding the right balance between taking beneficial preventative measures and not spending an over-budgeted amount on pharmaceuticals