My ag blog feed was filled with tributes to Norman Borlaug yesterday in celebration of National Ag Day/Week. I’ll admit, I had no idea who Norman Borlaug was, so I got my Google on and started reading. Turns out, Norman Borlaug was the man who…
Most of the hog barns we visit are modern indoor facilities. Confinement, some call it. 90% of all pork is raised indoors, in fact. And these indoor homes are actually pretty comfortable – they’re temperature controlled all year, the pigs are protected from sunburn (yep!),…
Brian, B, Beezer – the childhood moniker may have stuck, but this kind young farmer is every bit of a responsible adult, raising hogs in his own two 2400 head barns in northwest Iowa. He owns and farms his own 80 acres, cares for his…
Hi, Larry. Larry has a wean-to-finish facility near West Point, NE. Nearly 10,000 pigs are under his care – 6,600 of which live at the site we visited last week. His barns are filled with Crystal Spring Water-Space feeders, and he calls his Pro Sort…