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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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Cocoa isn't doing well. ~ reviewing health protocol of the flock, and I've been ROBBED... (again).

Video: Cocoa isn't doing well. ~ reviewing health protocol of the flock, and I've been ROBBED... (again).

Sort of a rollercoaster of emotions this week. Our sweet Cocoa has come down with symptoms that would indicate the beginning stages of pneumonia... So we treated quickly, and it looked promising... but the jury is still out.