environment

Dr. Lisa Becton, Director of Swine Health Information & Research, National Pork Board, provides an update on the sustainability and environmental improvements the pork industry is focused on. From the 2011 Annual Conference of the National Institute for Animal Agriculture, April 11 - 14, San Antonio, TX USA.

It's muddy boots time as spring hits full swing.  If your boots aren't muddy, you must be in Texas where drought is threatening to break a decades long record of dryness.  A look at Farm Bill Thinking in Washington this week as pre-committee work posturing continues.  ProFarmer's Jim Wiesemeyer shares his outlook on macro factors affecting agriculture. 

This year's green buzzword is 'sustainability' and we are sharing producer Randy Spronk's comments to delegates at the National Pork Industry Forum.  Modern agriculture has a great story to tell here so listen and share!

The Greenhouse Gases and Animal Agriculture Conference (GGAA), held October 3 to 8, 2010 in Banff, Alberta, Canada, produced some usable information to help operations tackle livestock emissions. From NationalHogFarmer.com, here are Ten Steps Toward Tackling Livestock Emissions:

SwineCast 0611 Show Notes:

• Correspondent Bruce Cochrane hooks up with the president of DGH Engineering, Dennis Hodgkinson to discuss the company's new digester technology.

SwineCast 0556 Show Notes:

• Environmental Counsel for the National Pork Producers Council, Michael Formica, logs in with this update on environmental issues in Washington and elsewhere.  There are some elements to this information which can dramatically change how you do what you do.  Stay close to what's happening here!

SwineCast 0555 Show Notes:

• New Board Member Dr. Ron Prestage discusses his perspective on working with other meat groups, market competition and working with the current administration in this conversation from World Pork Expo.

SwineCast 0547 Show Notes:

• USDA Agricultural Research Service ongoing research into low-cost algae-based systems to reclaim nutrients from manures as we talk with Microbiologist Walter Mulby.