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KAP Hosts Mental Health Webinar

A webinar on mental health was hosted Friday by Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP).
 
Kim Hyndman-Moffat works for Canadian Suicide Prevention Services.
 
"COVID-19 has placed a lot of pressure on the cattle industry, it disrupted the supply chain, resulting in the backlog that we're all hearing about. Lower cattle prices, so there's a lot of folks concerned about that. I've heard different ones talking about the difficulties recruiting Temporary Foreign Workers because of COVID-19. Conditions that were dry to begin with, and then they turned to overland flooding over a course of a couple of days, that's set back a lot of producers too."
 
She says farming is one of most stressful jobs out there.
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Validating Net Energy in Commercial Swine Systems - Gustavo Lima

Video: Validating Net Energy in Commercial Swine Systems - Gustavo Lima


In this episode of The Swine Nutrition Blackbelt Podcast, Gustavo Lima, PhD candidate at Iowa State University, explains how soybean meal net energy is evaluated using growth assays and calorimetry. He discusses caloric efficiency, validation under commercial conditions, and differences between controlled and real-world environments. Gustavo also highlights practical implications for diet formulation and ingredient valuation. Listen now on all major platforms!

“Indirect calorimetry provides a precise estimation of ingredient energy, yet validation under production conditions remains essential for accurate application in real systems.”

Meet the guest: Gustavo Lima / gustavo-lima-a9867127 is a PhD candidate in Animal Science at Iowa State University, specializing in swine nutrition, ingredient evaluation, and energy metabolism. With over 15 years of experience across Latin America, his work focuses on soybean meal utilization, caloric efficiency, and applied research for commercial production systems.