The Whole Hog with Reise: How many piglets do sows have?
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Managing to be a good manager: strategies and practices – Anthony Vigilante
Managing a team depends on having the fundamental skill of leading and coordinating individuals with diverse abilities, personalities, and work styles in order to achieve common goals. Nowadays, that is especially sensitive in the swine industry, as we are going through a labor shortage. In this episode, I have a great conversation about strategies and practices to adapt management to changes and team growth with Anthony Vigilante, M.Sc., who has […]
In Swine Versation: Diverse Pork Industry passion and drive with Jim Magoloski
Senior Director of Hog Quality and Protocols, Jim Magoloski from Perdue Quality Meats and Niman Ranch joins us.
Raising Pigs in the Winter
If you’re raising pastured pigs on your regenerative farm, it’s important to know how to raise pigs in the winter. Check out this free one-hour workshop, where we discussed feeding pigs in winter with our Osborne Bulk Feeders, keeping pigs warm in winter with Port-A-Hut livestock shelters, grazing pigs in winter using temporary paddocks, watering pigs in winter with our DIY livestock waterers, and MORE!
SD crops doing ok as June begins
In its latest Crop Progress and Conditions Report, USDA says the winter wheat in South Dakota is rated 28% good to excellent as almost half of the crop is heading. Spring wheat conditions are rated 56% good to excellent. Chuck Todd, who farms near Onida, has winter wheat and says a rain would be welcome. “The spring wheat is burning down and the hills are really dry. The winter wheat […]
Corn silking and cotton squaring in Arkansas
Arkansas crops are entering their next stages of development. The USDA reports as of Sunday 1% of corn is silking, 1% of cotton has reached the squaring stage and 23% of soybeans are blooming. The corn crop is rated 57% good to excellent, with cotton at 83%, peanuts at 92%, rice at 62%, and soybeans at 59% good to excellent. Winter wheat harvest is underway at 14% complete with […]
Baldwin’s wolf bill gets mixed reactions
New legislation has been introduced in the U.S. Senate that would remove the wolf from the endangered species list. Senator Tammy Baldwin’s Northern Great Lakes Wolf Recovery Act would develop a regional-specific plan to delist the gray wolf in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The legislation would create an advisory committee comprised of members representing agriculture, Native and Tribal communities, heads of impacted-state agencies, and wolf management experts and […]
Kentucky crops: 72% corn and 78% soybeans rated good to excellent
Weather turned hot and dry in Kentucky as planting continues across the state. Corn is 97% planted, with 86% of the crop emerged, and 72% rated good to excellent. Soybeans are 80% planted, with 65% emerged and 78% rated good to excellent. Winter wheat is 60% coloring with 87% of the crop rated good to excellent. Sixty-four percent of the tobacco crop has been set and 85% is rated good […]
Planting nearly wrapped up in Wisconsin
Wisconsin’s crops are nearly all planted, with most of the crops emerging. USDA statistician Greg Bussler says 76% of the state’s corn has emerged and 97% of the planting is finished. The dry weather has the crop condition down ten points, with only 72% of the corn in good to excellent condition. Sixty-nine percent of the state’s soybeans are reported as good or excellent, with 62% emerging and 94% of […]
