production

HayTalk on Feed and Forages

Truffle Media Networks — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:50:36 +0000

Forages and Feed What are your forage and feed tips? What are producers doing for their forage? This HayTalk conversations shares what others are doing.

Dr. Lisa Becton - Pork Forum Report

Truffle Media Networks — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:02:18 +0000

Pork Forum Report - Dr. Lisa Becton, Director of Swine Health Information & Research, National Pork Board, from the 2011 Annual Conference of the National Institute for Animal Agriculture, April 11 - 14, San Antonio, TX USA.

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Charlie Arnot - How American Consumers View American Production Practices

Truffle Media Networks — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:50:50 +0000

How American Consumers View American Production Practices - Charlie Arnot, Center for Food Integrity, from the 2011 Annual Conference of the National Institute for Animal Agriculture, April 11 - 14, San Antonio, TX USA.

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Can Efficiency and Productivity Happen in Swine Industry?

Truffle Media Networks — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:31:04 +0000

via SwineCast.com

The great turnout for the 2011 Minnesota Pork Congress created many opportunities for hallway conversations. Of interest to all were the presentations on improving efficiency and maximizing productivity. Many attendees greatly appreciated the program sponsors and the Minnesota Pork Producers Association making the presentations available on SwineCast.

Audio: How Can Your Production Farm Connect With Local Consumers?

John Blue — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:30:07 +0000

Audio: How Can Your Production Farm Connect With Local Consumers? Belstra Milling uses its proximity to Chicago as a staging area for showing production practices and protocols to the world.

Agchat Discussion on Regional Crop/Food Production

John Blue — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:29:14 +0000

Opportunities and Issues With Regional Crop/Food Production This discussion provides insight into legislation, resources, and practices that could help/hurt regional crop and food production.

Food Borne Mycotoxins, The Threat To Poultry

Truffle Media Networks — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:58:11 +0000

Food Borne Mycotoxins, The Threat To Poultry (audio) Dr. Trevor Smith, University of Guelph, on his Mycotoxin presentation at the Midwest Poultry Federation Convention, Food Borne Mycotoxins; The Threat To Poultry. Via PoultryCast.com.

Agchat Discussion on Farm Efficiency Practices

Truffle Media Networks — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:14:58 +0000

Farm Efficiency Practices as disscussed on Agchat, with responses to questions, informational links, and transcript.

SwineCast update for November 12, 2009, What ag lending issues you should know about.

John Blue — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:13:46 +0000

The Wall Street Journal highlighted the news that Coharie Hog Farms Inc. filed for Chapter 11 protection November 6, 2009, blaming swine flu for its collapse into bankruptcy. According to the article, Coharie ultimately filed for bankruptcy in order to liquidate its livestock and other assets. Coharie, based in Clinton, N.C., is the largest independent pork supplier to Smithfield Foods Co. and was ranked as the 22nd largest pork producer in the country by Successful Farming magazine.

Not good news for the industry, but to paraphrase an economist, "on the other hand…"

The calamity, as the North American swine industry undergoes a historic retrenchment, must give way to transition to what the industry will become. Accordingly, SwineCast continues to bring you insight, ideas, and possible solution paths to management / industry issues that we will face as we continue in pork production.

Recent SwineCast programs include information on access to capital markets to realigning and managing a major international energy business. We will continue to search for insight that will help our industry transition as we strive to meet the protein demands of a growing world and the return to profitability.

And in early December, we continue to explore PRRS eradication from the International PRRS Symposium in Chicago, which will be prefaced by a special Boehringer-Ingelheim meeting featuring updates on current PRRS technology.

SwineCast^® Conversations

Updates and information on the industry.

SwineCast 0480 Are You Ready For The Next Question?: Executive Director of the American Association of Swine Veterinarians, Tom Burkgren, discusses his Leman presentation on speaking as an industry with one voice.
SwineCast 0479 Leadership Comments from Tony Haywood, CEO of BP Tony Hayward, CEO of BP, discusses his leadership style and the importance of bringing 'who you are' to the workplace.
SwineCast 0478 Ag Lending Issues Special presentation from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange looking at Ag Lending issues. Not what you want to hear but what you need to know!

SwineCast^® Headliners

Get the latest thoughts and commentary on the industry.

Hybrid Outlook for Agribusiness Careers. From SwineCast Update "Employment prospects for farmers, ranchers, and production managers are expected to decline over the next seven years, with notable exceptions in organic farming, horticulture, and aquiculture. The overall outlook for careers in agriculture and food science is brighter—job growth in these areas is expected to keep pace with the average of other occupations in the United States."
USDA To Purchase More Pork Products: from the NPPC. "The National Pork Producers Council commended U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack for his decision to purchase up to $50 million of pork products, which will be used for various federal food programs. The purchase should help struggling pork producers, who have been mired in a 2-year-long economic crisis."

SwineCast^® Conference Connection

Conversations from 2009 National FFA Convention, October 21-24, 2009, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
- Audio: Clayton Carley and The Sweet Corn Shack, 2009 FFA Agri-Entrepreneur winner.
- Video: Mike Rowe, from Dirty Jobs, was the main keynote at 2009 National FFA Convention.
Still more updates from the 2009 Allen D. Leman Swine Conference, September 19-22, 2009, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA..
- Video: Pork Production Information Systems and Data Analysis by Dr. Tom Stein, MetaFarms.
- Audio: Is It Time To Eliminate PRRS? by Dr Tim Loula of Swine Vet Services.

What are the front-burner issues you want to know more about? Tell us at feedback@swinecast.com.

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DairyCast update for October 19, 2009, Should you fire all of your employees and start over?

John Blue — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:09:56 +0000

We are pleased to offer you a three part series focusing on way you can improve the performance of your team. As we are in the heart of football season, we all know how frustrating it can be when your favorite team fails to communicate and execute properly. The same can be true for your dairy when your team of employees aren’t performing as national champions. Tom Wall, President of Language Links, LLC., offers some great insight into improving how you coach and the results that you receive.

Be sure to take some time today to review our continuing conversations from the 2009 World Dairy Expo.

If we didn’t have a chance to catch up in Madison, drop me a note.

DairyCast ^®Conversations

DairyCast 0308 When does a pay raise result in higher performance? Tom Wall, President of Language Links, LLC., concludes his advice with a focus on increasing employee performance (part 3 of 3).
DairyCast 0307 When there aren't any cops around, do you speed? Your employees may be "speeding" when supervisors aren't in sight. Tom Wall, President of Language Links, LLC., continues his suggestions for improved employee management (part 2 of 3).
DairyCast 0306 Should you fire all of your employees and start over? Tom Wall, President of Language Links, LLC., offers some more rational insights into employee management than firing all of your employees (part 1 of 3).

DairyCast^® Headliners

Get the latest thoughts and commentary from all our headliners.

"How the Mighty Fall--and Why Some Companies Never Give In": by Don Tyler: "Jim Collins’ new book, 'How the Mighty Fall' is a great read for any business going through difficult financial situations—and those who want to avoid them. Though the title may initially cause you to think, ‘That’s all I need, more negativity!” the book provides empirical information on the common steps that highly visible companies have gone through in their decline, and others that turned it around mid-crisis."
The Food System and Feeding the World. Post by Dr. Terry Etherton "Much has been written about the “Food System” and how we should go about feeding the world. To put “much” into context, I ran a Google search using the phrases “food systems” or food system; got 906,000 returns for the former and 759,000 returns for the latter phrase. Why the keen interest in the food system?"

DairyCast^® Conference Connection

Stay connected to industry conferences.

Selected educational seminar presentations from the 2009 World Dairy Expo, September 29 - October 3, 2009 Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
- Video presentation: Part 2, Genomic Selection of Dairy Cattle: Opportunities and Challenges Dr. Kent Weigel, University of Wisconsin; and Dr. C. Michael Cowan, Genetic Visions.
- Video presentation: The Future of Your Alfalfa Mark McCaslin, Forage Genetics International.
We continue to provide you with information, in partnership with the National Institute for Animal Agriculture, from the ID-INFO Expo 2009, held August 25 - 27, 2009 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
- Video presentation: "Growing Forward:” A new framework for agriculture policy Andre Dagenais, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
- Video presentation: The Need for Food Traceability Programs Dr. David Acheson, Leavitt Partners.

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Trent Fredenburg
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