This weekend marks 4 months since medically important antibiotics could only be added to swine diets with a VFD (Veterinary Feed Directive). The past 2 days I was at a national sales meeting for a nutrition supplier to the US … Continue reading →

When wean-finish technology first hit the US industry in the mid-late 1990’s, many estimates of production cost versus traditional nursery moved to finisher suggested fewer hours of labor per pig for wean-finish. Earlier this week I was asked if there … Continue reading →

This past weekend MetaFarms released their performance summaries for the 2016 production year. For those unfamiliar with MetaFarms, this a private production record company based in Burnsville, MN. Data in their system comes from production facilities in the United States … Continue reading →

It has been a couple of weeks since I’ve sat down and posted an item on my blog. After a very hectic February and March doing site visits and producer meetings I took some time off. I spent some of … Continue reading →