Articles by Dale Miller
Stalls or Pens? Ask the Sows!
Is the move to abandon stalls for gestating sows a done deal? Not in some people's minds. Listen close and you'll hear a murmur spreading in the pork...
Protect Your Livelihood
Summer events offer perfect opportunity to bend an ear, twist an arm. By the time you read this, you'll have fond memories of 4th of July picnics, parades...
Saluting the Masters
Our annual “state of the industry” report is always one of the most interesting and invigorating issues to write and produce each year. I'm hopeful that you find this issue equally so as you read...
Next Generation Sow Housing
Henceforth, January 25th, 2007, will serve as a milestone in the U.S. pork industry. On the second day of the Iowa Pork Congress, the trade show floor...
E-I-E-I-O
While compiling a list of issues facing pork producers in 2007, the lyrics of a children's song suddenly popped into my head. The song about old McDonald,...
Year in Review
As this year draws to a close, how did your New Year's resolutions and expectations for 2006 pan out?...
Are Your Records Up to Snuff?
It's been said, You can't master what you can't measure. With the electronic wizardry available today, there seems to be no limit to what we can measure...
Corn Again!
Not since the colonists sat down with the Native Americans to learn how to raise maize have U.S. citizens been so enamored with corn. Questions about...
Ethanol Jitters
Gas prices hovering near $3/gal. have a way of turning talk about energy costs to ethanol and the price of corn. These conversations generally begin calmly...
Please Be Careful Out There
Five feet tall and 120 lb. is no match for a 400-lb. sow. Shortly before World Pork Expo, I received a telephone call from David Funderburke, swine nutritionist/consultant...
Animal ID Setback
The National Animal Identification System (NAIS) suffered a setback in May. When members of the U.S. House of Representatives passed an $18.4 billion...
500 Years and Counting
Who in the pork industry would you most like to interview? Would you pick the most successful pork producer you know? A specialist in your chosen field?...
Managing Sows In Gestation
Sow herd management is generally broken into the three phases of a sow's life gestating a litter, nursing a litter and not pregnant but getting ready...
Five Technologies Rise to the Surface
The long-awaited, five-year, $17.3 million study to identify effective swine manure management alternatives is nearing completion. North Carolina's pork...
Daily Growth Tracking Targets Premiums
Daily gain software helps refine market hog deliveries to producer-owned Meadowbrook Farms plant. Here's your challenge: Sort a semi-load of market hogs...
A New Year's Resolution
We take down the old calendar, recount the year's highlights, then hang a brand spankin' new one. For the more business-minded, this clean slate serves...
Capitalize on the Latest Advances
This annual edition is chock-full of the latest research from major universities and research centers. Researchers across the United States and Canada...
National ID Get On Board
A national livestock identification program is needed in this country and the sooner the better. One need only look at the Oct. 10 headlines from Brazil,...
Rearrange Welfare Thinking
I've beem hanging around pigs all of my life. Generally, I think I understand them pretty well. But, like people, they're all different. Some pigs are...
It Boggles the Mind
For those of you who are as electronically challenged as I am, take heart, the electronic gurus and computer whizzes are busily working to make things...
In Search of the Perfect Pig
Want to start a lively discussion at your county or state fair this summer? Try this lean confidently on the showring fence, point to your favorite pig...
Timing is Everything
The day I sat down to write this editorial, my e-mail chimed and, lo and behold, there was the announcement: Supreme Court Overturns Lower Court's Pork...
A Golden Event
Welcome to the 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition of National Hog Farmer magazine, marking five decades of bringing news and production information...
Time's Tight to Sign Up for EPA Program
As the May 1 deadline for signing the recently announced Air Emissions Consent Agreement nears, pork producers are scrambling for clarification. In an...
Well-Run Brazilian Herd Concentrates on Details
Family-owned, farrow-to-nursery and finishing sites focus on improving pigs-weaned averages. For anyone looking for a typical, well-run hog farm while...
