Results from a nationwide swine farmer and veterinarian Precision livestock farming (PLF) acceptance survey.
U.S. pig farmers continue to contend with challenges amidst rising production costs, labor shortages and shrinking profit margins. These challenges are worsened by the increasing need...
Liane Hart, Verility CEO, works with a manager at a pork farm in central Indiana. Verility has closed a $3.5 million Series A round of funding, which will help the company prepare to commercialize its livestock fertility analysis platform....
RC Family Farms in Iowa is a wean-to-finish pig production company that has partnered with independent pork producers since 2006 to raise pigs profitably and responsibly.
Challenges
Not receiving real-time health and production information from contract farms
Not being able...
We often talk about live animals, people and vehicles as being the highest risk for introducing disease to a farm operation. But what about smart phones as a fomite? Scientists at the University of Arizona found that smartphones had...
BinSentry partnered with Hanor, one of North America’s top pork producers, on a year-long study that aimed to better understand the connection between out-of-feed events and feed conversion ratios.
From July 2022 to August 2023, 200 BinSentry sensors were installed...
Distynct, a leading provider of remote monitoring solutions for production livestock, and EveryPig, a platform specializing in daily operations and record keeping, have announced an integration to provide customers with comprehensive pig barn management.
This integration will allow customers to...
Pig Champ is a leading database of U.S. swine production data.
Table below - Genesus compared the Pig Champ Mean and Top 10%. Forty-nine (49) Genesus herds and three hundred five (365) PigChamp herds used for data.
No doubt Genesus outperforms...
Here's a one-on-one Q&A with John Raines, president of Telus Agriculture & Consumer Goods as it launches its new strategy.
Why did you take on this new role with TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods?
It’s a handful of things. First, TELUS...
Farmscape for February 27, 2024
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A professor with the University of Saskatchewan reports progress in the development of a new tool to assess indicators of on farm animal welfare at slaughter. Researchers with the University...
BinSentry, a company dedicated to enhancing efficiencies and sustainability in the $500 billion global animal feed supply chain, has successfully secured $15 million in new capital. The funding, obtained through a Series B round led by Spring Mountain Capital,...