SwineCast

SwineCast 0231 Show Notes:

• Special Leadership program featuring Jeffrey Shames, past Chairman of MFS Investments and 'Executive In Residence' at MIT's Sloan School of Business

SwineCast 0230 Show Notes:

• China buying U.S. pork while complaining about residues. VOA reports on Blue Ear death losses.
• MRLs discussion with Dr. Liz Wagstrom and link to pork.org MRL database.
  
• Dr. Rick Tubbs discusses on-farm work with PRRS and Circo vaccines in real world conditions.
  

SwineCast 0229 Show Notes:

• Dr. Sam Baidoo looks at alternative sow housing
• Improved herd health paying dividends for Dr. Karen Lehe

SwineCast 0228 Show Notes:

• VP of Legislative Affairs for the American Meat Institute discusses how we did on the farm bill and what's next
• Accuracy in posted pigs highly suspect
• Composting possible in combination with alternative housing

Finisher Mortality Classification Flowchart. Click on the image and use the magnifier to get good look/print.

SwineCast 0227 Show Notes:

• Special Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) response plan program with Dr. Andrea Morgan of the USDA. Symptom photos

SwineCast 0226 Show Notes:

• FMD Update
• Steve Hargis with South Central Swine Management Services looks at managing to limit variability and knowing costs
• New long-term manure management study in Manitoba
• Manure Tech 2007 on August 21
  
• Don Tyler looks at personality type impact on management communications
  

SwineCast 0225 Show Notes:

• Motivating for managers from FastCompany.com
• USDA crop report
• Canadian crop review
• Dr. Jerry Shurson updates continuing DDGs research
• Don Tyler on using the full slate of communications tools at your disposal

SwineCast 0224 Show Notes:

• FMD break in U.K. possibly sourced to lab
• Corn condos for off-farm storage
• Canadian Pork Council says COOL hinders effort to develop North American industry relations
• Antioxidants for oinkers. Don Mahan's research at Ohio State. Additional Information

SwineCast 0223 Show Notes:

• John Wargowski with MAAHS provides an update on the probable implementation of rules that can affect your immigrant workers
• American Feed Industry Association looks at the changes in regulations which may affect your feeding operation
• Wisco

SwineCast 0222 Show Notes:

• Shelf life extenders double as E. Coli limiters
• Swine manure affect on antibiotic resistance
• John Lawrence at Iowa State looks at feed prices and live hogs
• Omega 3 fatty acid primer from University of Nebraska
• Transgenic cloning enables Omega 3 pork