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SwineCast 0203a Show Notes:

• Special program featuring Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines on Management and People
  

SwineCast 0202 Show Notes:

• Prairie Systems Feed Allocation System helps manage your nutrient flow.
• Alternative feedstuffs gaining ground outside the U.S.
• Dr. Gerald Shurson shares his thoughts on Ethanol impact.
• Canadians hoping new crop will ease pricing pressure.

SwineCast 0201 Show Notes:

• At the Pork Managers Conference in Destin, Florida: 1) Conversations with Sarah Fogleman from Kansas State & Mark Greenwood with AgStar Financial Services and their presentation on building a management team and preparing for transition and 2) Economist Abner Womack from the University of Missouri talking ethanol and feed prices.<

SwineCast 0200 Show Notes:

• Continuing the coversation with Professor Beitz on improving meat quality through genetics.
• Mike Tokach looks at PQA Plus and why producers need to adopt those practices.

SwineCast 0199a Show Notes:

• USDA/FDA Joint Update on melamine contamination issues for May 10

SwineCast 0199 Show Notes:

• Research finds BSE tranmission is limited
• Feeding livestock to feed humans
• Biotech will be in... in 2013
• Solid manure injection systems under review
• Feed contamination update
• Challenges in feeding DDGs
  

SwineCast 0198 Show Notes:

• JJ Brown from Sen. Orrin Hatch's office - Interstate shipping of meat
• Don Tyler, Tyler & Associates - Essential employee management documents
• Dr. Jim Sandstrom, Epitopix vaccines

SwineCast 0197 Show Notes:

• FastCompany.com - Every Leader Tells A Story
• Jim Long logs in from Manitoba
• Ethanol impact on livestock producers with Steve Meyer from Paragon Economics
• Charlie Arnot shares his research on why consumers have changed... and how we need to change to deal with them

SwineCast 0196a Show Notes:

• USDA FDA teleconference on status of contaminated feed and activities.

SwineCast 0196 Show Notes:

• Veterinary Toxicology's role in Animal Agriculture with Dr. Birgit Puschner of U.C. Davis.
• Planting progress slow this year
• Farm Bill debate continues to move ahead with new elements on the table
• Economist Barry Flinchbaugh airs what he'd like to see included
• Phosphorus run-off the main concern in Manitoba
• "Those who understand don't manage... and those who manage, don't understand"