Matli is a sow farm manager for Borgic Farms in Nokomis. This farm has 10,000 sows that produce piglets for their grower partners. He has been with the Borgic team for 17 years.
PORK Perspectives is a recurring column that provides business and leadership strategy tips from some of the pork industry’s finest. Meet Jeff Simmons, president and CEO of Elanco Animal Health.
Despite many advancements in the industry’s focus on disease risk mitigation, 28 states still allow some type of garbage feeding to swine, increasing the risk of foreign animal disease (FAD) transmission.
COVID-19 concerns may have kept 2020 Allen D. Leman Swine Conference attendees physically apart, but it did not stop the sharing of ideas and perspectives during one of the industry’s most beloved events of the year.
Pork Perspectives is a recurring column that provides business and leadership strategy tips from some of the pork industry’s finest. Meet Robbie Moody, head of U.S. pork marketing and business operations at Zoetis.
The most valuable resource and opportunity for future progress is our young talent, said Dr. Deborah Murray, DVM, during the Alex Hogg Memorial Lecture at the 2019 AASV annual meeting.
ASF continues its steady, all-encompassing spread across Asia. While U.S. pork production differs significantly from Asia’s industry, Juan LuBroth shares lessons about this virus from other countries’ experiences.
With more than 14 cases reported in six Chinese provinces, officials from UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said 40,000 hogs had been culled so far to stop the disease from spreading.
Organizers of the Allen D. Leman Swine Conference in St. Paul, Minn., will be incorporating more keynote speakers than ever before into its virtual event on Sept. 19-22. Here's a preview.
A new genome editing method is creating swine that remain in a pre-pubertal state, thus eliminating the need for surgical castration, according to a release from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR).
