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Touring Our Hog Barn

Touring Our Hog Barn's Work Rooms

Welcome to it! This’ll Do Farm is a 6th generation family farm located in Southeast Iowa that is run by a father-son duo Tork and Sawyer. Sawyer and Tork are the force behind their family farm taking care of pigs, along with farming the family’s acres. Together, they promote agriculture in a pos... More ›
Recommended enzymes for lactating sows during summer

Recommended enzymes for lactating sows during summer

Dr. Holmes graduated from North Dakota State University with both a B.S. and M.S. in Animal Science and subsequently attended the University of Minnesota to receive a Ph.D. in Swine Nutrition. She discusses enzyme recommendations for sows' diet during the summer heat and outlines the use of xyla... More ›
A new program that aims to support pig performance at every life stage

A new program that aims to support pig performance at every life stage

Marisol Castillo, Global Swine Solutions Senior Manager at Novus International tells us about their the Scale Up™ program to help pork producers deliver on their specific business goals. Each stage of a pig’s life comes with its challenges, and pork producers have the task of meeting those... More ›
Raising Pigs 1: Farrowing

Raising Pigs 1: Farrowing

Farrowing can be a stressful process for farmers and their pigs. Knowing a little about what is happening to the sow and piglets during farrowing can help farmers better care for their breeding swine herd, and improve piglet care during the birthing process.... More ›
Feral Swine Bomb: How wild pigs are threatening Canada’s ecosystems and economy

Feral Swine Bomb: How wild pigs are threatening Canada’s ecosystems and economy

There is an invasive species spreading across North America – feral swine. Millions of wild pigs are eating and destroying their way through Canada and the United States, causing about US$2.5 billion in property and crop damage every year.... More ›
What are the most significant issues in the swine industry today? With Aidan Connolly

What are the most significant issues in the swine industry today? With Aidan Connolly

Swine farms need to continue to advance technologically to be more profitable in the future. However, those technologies must be closely aligned with the issues that we already have in our industry. Aidan Connolly shares his thoughts on the big issues we must address when thinking of new technol... More ›
How Should We Manage Sows’ Diets During Summer?

How Should We Manage Sows’ Diets During Summer?

Dr. Holmes explores the conventional way of managing lactating sows’ diet during summer. After the lysine adjustment, fat is the focus, since it is a very concentrated source of energy and presents a lower heat increment in the sow’s metabolism. She then shares some thoughts on alternative ways ... More ›
Farm Girl

Farm Girl's First Time Sorting Pigs

Sawyer and Tork are the force behind their family farm taking care of pigs, along with farming the family’s acres. Together, they promote agriculture in a positive light by recording their day-to-day life’s on the farm.... More ›
Lactating sows in the summer heat - how do we keep their feed intake high

Lactating sows in the summer heat - how do we keep their feed intake high

With the summer getting closer pig farmers will need to start worrying about the effects of heat stress on their pigs. It can have a large impact on the productivity of the animals, especially for sows in lactation as maintaining high feed intake is critical.... More ›
Chloe Hagen: Compensatory gain following nutrient restriction - how well can pigs recover?

Chloe Hagen: Compensatory gain following nutrient restriction - how well can pigs recover?

Covid caused a lot of issues in the swine industry that we were unprepared for especially in regard to meat packing plants shutting down for periods of time leaving farmers with no one to sell their pigs at market weight.... More ›
Follow the Hog Farmers

Follow the Hog Farmers

Join Manitoba hog farmers, Andrea Elias and Craig Sawatzky, and learn all about how they raise their pigs and work hard to provide healthy meat for our tables... More ›
Chloe Hagen: Compensatory gain following nutrient restriction - how well can pigs recover?

Chloe Hagen: Compensatory gain following nutrient restriction - how well can pigs recover?

Covid caused a lot of issues in the swine industry that we were unprepared for especially in regard to meat packing plants shutting down for periods of time leaving farmers with no one to sell their pigs at market weight. Hopefully something like this will never happen again, but if it does it i... More ›
Follow the Farmers - Hogs

Follow the Farmers - Hogs

Join Manitoba hog farmers, Andrea Elias and Craig Sawatzky, and learn all about how they raise their pigs and work hard to provide healthy meat for our tables... More ›
Improving Communication In The Swine Industry, With Chris Bomgaars

Improving Communication In The Swine Industry, With Chris Bomgaars

We are always trying to find better ways to understand what the pigs are telling us. Are we doing the same with our teammates? As Chris rightly points out, we need to find a common language so anyone can understand or use proper tools to translate that. What can we do to improve communication?... More ›
Wild Pigs : A threat to the Canadian pork sector. How can we reduce it - NISAW 2022

Wild Pigs : A threat to the Canadian pork sector. How can we reduce it - NISAW 2022

This webinar recording is one of seven webinars held during the 2022 Winter National Invasive Species Awareness Week (NISAW) from February 28 to March 4, 2022 in Canada.... More ›
Sorting Pigs & Planting Corn

Sorting Pigs & Planting Corn

First Day Of Planting Corn 2022: In this one the boys start off the day with loading up David’s planter to start on day 2 of planting. Then they head to the hog barn to do some sorting of the fallback pigs. While Tork and Sawyer do that David is finishing up planting the corn acres.... More ›
Lysine recommendations for grow-finish pigs - maybe we aren

Lysine recommendations for grow-finish pigs - maybe we aren't feeding enough - Rafe Royall

Nutrient recommendations constantly need to be reviewed and updated as genetics change over the years. Lysine, being one of the most critical nutrients pigs receive, definitely deserves some special attention. In this episode, Rafe Royall and I talk about his study identifying the optimal lysine... More ›
Findings on supplementing calcium in the sow diet, with Dr. Tom Crenshaw

Findings on supplementing calcium in the sow diet, with Dr. Tom Crenshaw

Dr. Tom Crenshaw is a Professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In this episode, Dr. Crenshaw shares some exciting results from his and his team's research on supplementing calcium in the sow diet and the current ratios used in the swine industry.... More ›
What grains in swine feed may be providing more energy than we predict? - Dr. Ruurd Zijlstra

What grains in swine feed may be providing more energy than we predict? - Dr. Ruurd Zijlstra

Accurately defining our nutrient loadings when formulating diets is essential for nutritionists. If we are not accounting for enough enough energy from hindgut fermentation, we may be over feeding energy during certain stages of production.... More ›
Dr. Brent Sexton: Utilizing different PEDv vaccination strategies in sow herds

Dr. Brent Sexton: Utilizing different PEDv vaccination strategies in sow herds

Even with different types of vaccines available for PEDv, it still is a common issue that swine farms struggle with. In this episode, Dr. Clayton Johnson interviews Dr. Brent Sexton about his experiencies with PEDv vaccines and how he has been utilizing a different vaccination method to try and ... More ›
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