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National Hog Farmer February 2013
2013-02-14 21:40:59| National Hog Farmer
Read more about day-one pig care, good starts for weaned pigs, and colostrum intake testing. Be ready for antibiotic restrictions as the use of antimicrobials becomes more limited and voluntary guidelines go into effect. PRRS threats challenge manure applicators and encourage better producer collaboration. Small Pigs, Big Problem - As pork producers charge toward 30 pigs/sow/year, they are coming to grips with lower birth weights,less robust pigs and the challenges of getting them off to a good start after weaning. Teaser Current Issue Block Teasers: Day One Pig Care No Second Chances Be Ready for Antibiotic Restrictions read more
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CHS to make record $600M payout to farmer owners
2013-02-04 20:28:37| Agriculture - Topix.net
BIG payday: Farmers and cooperatives that are part of CHS, the commodities and energy giant, will get the biggest payout ever.
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Super Bowl Ads Popularity Makes it A Good Day to be a Farmer
2013-02-04 16:58:00| National Hog Farmer
One of the most talked-about advertisements from last nights Super Bowl commercial line-up is the ad for the Dodge Ram trucks entitled, So God Made a Farmer. National Hog Farmer Blog read more
Think Different: Farmer v. Monsanto
2013-02-01 22:15:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Its not often a five-page letter from a farmer crosses my desk, even though it is obviously a typewriter-written, mass-mailed letter addressed to magazine officials. It was a letter from Vernon Bowman, a 74-year-old farmer from Sandborn, Ind. He outlined his use of commodity soybeans purchased from a local elevator to use as inexpensive double-crop soybean seed, and the subsequent legal actions taken against him by Monsanto. read more
National Hog Farmer January 2013
2013-01-15 06:00:00| National Hog Farmer
Read more about how producers are stretching feed dollars by fine-tuning feeding strategies, focusing on feed efficiency and tweaking management strategies. Stretching Feed Dollars - Breaking out of the corn-soybean meal diet mindset is not easy, but the drought-induced feedgrain shortages have pork producers using some unconventional alternatives to stretch swine diet dollars. Teaser Current Issue Block Teasers: Tweaking Aids Producers Survival Understanding Improvest When Corn Runs Short read more
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