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.

Video: How the corn-soy diet transformed swine nutrition

At the 2026 ASAS Midwest Section meeting, Dr. Robert Easter, professor emeritus of swine nutrition at the University of Illinois, spoke at the U.S. Soy sponsored Swine Application Symposium, offering a historical perspective on one of the most important developments in modern pig production: the corn-soybean meal diet. What today is considered a foundational feeding strategy was not always obvious or even accepted.