Smile! You're on Video Camera
Video monitoring supports employee training and troubleshooting efforts in sow farms. Bill Beckman suffers from a common plight facing production supervisors...
TQA: What's In a Name?
The pork industry extends its hog-handling focus from truckers to a broader Transport Quality Assurance program. To minimize pork quality losses during...
The Ties that Bind
Show ring competition offers common ground for young and old...
U.S. Pork Center Adds Feature
The U.S. Pork Center of Excellence has launched a new program, PIG Opportunities, within the Pork Information Gateway Web site ...
Accident Response Plan
North Carolina's largest integrator has formalized a means of dealing with live hog-hauling accidents to ensure animal well-being. Murphy-Brown's Animal...
Apparatus Eases Pig Moving Chore
Canadian producer's invention makes moving pigs a one-person job. Mary Haugh was desperate. Her husband had just suffered two heart attacks in three days,...
Carthage Group Expands Outreach Services
Plans are to improve office space and add training and educational facilities for visitors from the United States and abroad. Carthage Veterinary Services...
Livestock Handling Expert Promotes Accident Reduction Program
Independent livestock handling specialist Jennifer Woods of Alberta, Canada, says the United States needs a national program to address livestock hauling...
Pork Center Awarded Educational Grants
The U.S. Department of Agriculture/Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service have awarded three-year grant to develop Swine Schools a $460,000, to the U.S. Pork Center of Excellence (USPCE)...
Empower Your Employees
As farms and organizations struggle to improve, the credit or blame for progress achieved is often leveled at the staff...
