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National Pork Board Offers $46K for Top Innovators in Challenge

With foreign animal disease such as African swine fever closer than ever to the United States, the National Pork Board has launched its first-ever innovation challenge that deals with the potential need of mass carcass disposal. The challenge is seeking new and innovative methods of pig mortality disposal that go beyond the existing methods of burial, incineration, composting and landfills and provide pig farmers with more options.

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Moving Pregnant Ewes & Training Bottle Lambs

Video: Why sows need more nutrients - Katlyn McClellan

We're moving the last of the pregnant Suffolk ewes to the lambing barn in preparation for them giving birth shortly. Once they've been settled, we demonstrate how we train our lambs who need supplemental feeding to a bottle holder.