Dr. Miriam Martin is Director of Animal Health and Welfare from the North American Meat Institute. We discuss how she grew up in Swine Production on a small Hog Farm in Missouri. We discuss her enhanced career path, and exciting things in store at her job at NAMI. We discuss her mentor Temple Grandin, and her time at Colorado and Kansas State University and learning about Swine behaviour and pain […]
Bijon Brown, Production Economist, Alberta Pork discusses the Western Hog Price Insurance Program (WHPIP) with Makenzie Bennett, Product Coordinator, Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (AFSC), via Zoom.
This video from our Integrating Hogs In A Cover-Vegetable rotation series demonstrates the weekly moving process we use to move the animals from one research subplot to the next. These weekly moves, done in roughly three minutes highlights how easy a new farmer can adapt this technology without significantly impacting their schedule. Special thanks to the Naut'sa mawt Tribal Council and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada for supporting this research.
Learn about the importance of feed availability, particle size and feed quality on daily feed intake in finishing pigs
Vitamin A plays a vital role not only when it comes to the vision, but also to the immune and reproductive systems of swine, thus contributing to the overall health and performance of the animals. However, its precise effects remain a subject of ongoing research. In this episode, I talk with Dr. Sarah Elefson about her study that examines the impact of fat inclusion levels, fat sources, and supplementations with […]
Cherilyn Jolly-Nagel, Western Canadian Wheat Growers' Director and Saskatchewan Farmer discusses topics ranging from carbon schemes to fertilizer policy, with Dean Klippenstine, Senior Ag Advisor, MNP.
Each year, thousands of workers come to Canada from other countries to work seasonally. They’re typically hired through the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) or the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWF) and they are crucial to Ontario’s horticultural sector. Without them, we wouldn’t have access to the fruits and vegetables that we enjoy. In this video, you’ll meet some of the workers from Jamaica, the Ukraine and Thailand that work […]
