I generally focus on the business end of this family business, but today, I’m sharing a personal family moment. “When [Almanzo] began to eat pie, he wished he had eaten nothing else. He ate a piece of pumpkin pie and a piece of custard pie, and…
We spent several days in a barn earlier this spring trying to help a farmer optimize his feeders. His pigs were sick, and they were running the feeders poorly – namely, wasting feed and making a general mess of things. (Have you ever tried to…
Iowa State released an Animal Industry report earlier this year that focused on the microenviornment of transport trailers used for market hogs. It was previously a pretty unexplored area of research so it’s great to see new data on trailer bedding and washouts. The study…
It’s a rainy Tuesday and sometimes you just need to look at a sassy little pig. Lucky for you, I am here to help. Hello, little guy! Yeah, well. Ptttttttthhhhhhbbbb to you, too, pig.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. — Chinese Proverb Earth Day is celebrated in April with political fanfare and media attention, while Arbor Day, its older, less popular sister holiday slips quietly by for…
It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year since I started blogging about my new Adventures in Piggery. I’ve been in more hog barns than I can count, learned how to pick up and hold a piglet, taken thousands of photos of little pigs,…
Ham and corn and potatoes and a jello salad and relishes and buns and angel food cake and jelly beans and WOW, I am full. Chad’s aunt knocked Easter dinner out of the park. Ham comes from the hind legs of the pig and is…
Chad commissioned a new sorter system yesterday, which means he was training barn managers how to set up the computer program and scale settings for the Pro Sort large-pen auto sort system. The sorter weighs the pigs before they eat and then sorts them, sending…
Initially, I was worried that it might seem unseasonal to talk about quilts in April, but Old Man Winter just refuses to take his weather and go home, so here we are. Grab a cozy blanket and snuggle on up. Painted on wood and fastened…