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In the podcast Swine Extension Educators Sarah Schieck Boelke and Diane DeWitte speak with Charles Haley who is a veterinary epidemiologist with USDA APHIS Veterinary Services Center for Epidemiology and Animal Health. The three discuss USDA’s 2021 National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS) Study that will be occurring this summer.

In the podcast Swine Extension Educator Sarah Schieck Boelke speaks with current University of Minnesota graduate student Kayla Law about her research. Kayla’s research looked at the maternal programming of the piglet microbiome from birth to weaning.

Learn more about the research featured in the podcast Article published in National Hog Farmer June 11, 2020 Research summary posted on grant funder, MN Pork Board's website Abstract published in Journal of Animal Science , Volume 98, Issue Supplement 3, Page 89. Recorded on February 23, 2021

Transport Quality Assurance reference mentioned in the podcast can be found on the National Pork Board's website . Episode 21 was recorded on December 29, 2020.

The UMN Extension Livestock Contingency plans are available free of charge to anyone and can be found online at z.umn.edu/LivestockPlans . Be sure to look for the swine specific one.

Resources mentioned in the podcast: Upper Midwest Ag Safety and Health Center (UMASH) needlestick prevention resources - umash.umn.edu/needlestick-prevention UMASH Farm Safety resources Center for Disease Control (CDC) swine influenza resources - http://www.cdc.gov/flu/swineflu Minnesota Pork Board for manure pumping in progress STOP tags order form or call their office 1-800-537-7576 University o...

In this podcast Swine Extension Educators, Sarah Schieck Boelke and Diane DeWitte discuss rural stress resources for farmers and others involved in agriculture. Listen to the podcast:z.umn.edu/PodcastEpisode18 (recorded August 21, 2020)  Resources mentioned in the podcast as well as other resources: The University of Minnesota Extension's Farm and Rural Stress website offers resources for those de...

Sarah Schieck Boelke, swine Extension educator is joined with Maria Lou, University of Minnesota Department of Animal Science Graduate Student in a discussion about her research on the struggle behaviors and vocalization of male piglets during castration. Listen to the podcast:z.umn.edu/PodcastEpisode17 (Recorded June 25, 2020) Learn more about research featured in the podcast Watch the " Evaluati...

Sarah Schieck Boelke, swine Extension educator is joined with Lee Johnston, University of Minnesota swine nutrition faculty and Pedro Urriola, University of Minnesota swine nutrition faculty in a discussion about nutritional strategies to slow growth of pigs during these special circumstances of pork packing plant closures due to COVID-19. Listen to the podcast:z.umn.edu/PodcastEpisode16 (recorded...

Sarah Schieck, UMN Swine Extension Educator talks to recent University of Minnesota Animal Science Graduate Student Julia Holen about the research she did as part of her Master’s Degree. Specifically, this research looked at the effects of supplementing transition sow diets with zinc on pre-weaning mortality and lifetime productivity of pigs under commercial rearing conditions. Listen to the podca...

Sarah Schieck, swine Extension educator talks to recent University of Minnesota Animal Science graduate student Julia Holen about research she did as part of her master’s degree. Specifically, this research compared digestibility of polysaccharide-complexed zinc and inorganic zinc in diets for gestating and lactating sows. The research highlighted in this podcast was funded by QualiTech and comple...

Sarah Schieck Boelke, swine Extension educator talks to Lee Johnston, professor of swine nutrition and management and director of operations at the University of Minnesota West Central Research and Outreach Center about research he collaborated on with colleagues at other universities looking at the effects of reduced nocturnal temperature on pig performance and energy consumption in swine nursery...

Sarah Schieck, UMN Swine Extension Educator talks to graduate student Marta Ferrandis Vila about her research on the effects of dietary fiber on swine intestinal epithelial and immune response.  Tom Molitor, swine faculty in the College of Veterinary Medicine also joins the conversation.

Sarah Schieck, UMN Swine Extension Educator talks to Zhikai Zeng, a Post-doctoral Associate, about his research on using fiber-degrading enzymes to improve the nutritional value of high fiber ingredients in swine diets. Listen to the Podcast (recorded July 25, 2017)

Sarah Schieck, UMN Swine Extension Educator talks to recently graduated University of Minnesota Animal Science Graduate Student Anna Clarke about the research she did for her Master’s Degree in using HMB to reduce birth weight variability.  Her research used mice as models for sows. Listen to the podcast:z.umn.edu/PodcastEpisode12 (Recorded April 5, 2019)

Sarah Schieck, UMN Swine Extension Educator talks to Dave Wright, Secure Pork Supply coordinator with Minnesota Board of Animal Health and Diane DeWitte, UMN Swine Extension Educator about how they are encouraging the participation of Minnesota pork producers in the Secure Pork Supply plan. Listen to episode 11 podcast (z.umn.edu/PodcastEpisode11) (recorded May 30, 2019). Secure Pork Supply resour...

Sarah Schieck, UMN Swine Extension Educator talks to University of Minnesota Veterinary Medicine Ph. D. Student, Gustavo Lopez about his first-hand experience with African Swine Fever while working in Russia for 6 years. Listen to the podcast:z.umn.edu/PodcastEpisode10 (April 1, 2019)Learn more through resources referenced in the podcast as well as other resourcesNational Pork Board - www.pork.org...

Sarah Schieck, UMN Swine Extension Educator talks to University of Minnesota Animal Science Graduate Student, Kirsten Sharpe about research she conducted to measure electrical and thermal energy consumption in midwest commercial swine barns.   Research highlighted in this podcast was funded through a Legislative-Citizens Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR) grant. Listen to the podcast:  z.um...

Sarah Schieck, UMN Swine Extension Educator talks to Melissa Wilson, University of Minnesota Extension Specialist in manure nutrient management about one of her research projects where she is looking at using swine manure as a side dressing nutrient source in corn. Research highlighted in this podcast was funded by the Minnesota Pork Board and Minnesota Soybean Research and Promotion Council. List...

Sarah Schieck, UMN Swine Extension Educator talks to University of Minnesota Swine Nutrition Graduate Student, Zhaohui (Edward) Yang about his research on the use of novel high protein distillers grains, both in nursery pig and grow-finish pig diets. ListenListen to the podcast z.umn.edu/PodcastEpisode7 (recorded August 1, 2018)SubscribeOn iTunesOr through your favorite podcast app by searching UM...

Sarah Schieck, UMN Swine Extension Educator talks to University of Minnesota Swine Nutrition PhD student, Michaela (Mickie) Trudeau about research she presented at the 2018 Midwest American Society of Animal Science meetings on investigating the development of swine enteroids to be used as a swine nutrition tool. Mickie helps listeners understand the connection between the lab work she is doing an...

Sarah Schieck, UMN Swine Extension Educator talks to Randy Pepin, UMN Extension Educator about research he recently completed regarding integrating cover crops with manure. Links from this episode: Listen to the podcast (recorded April 23, 2018)Visit the Manure and Soil Health blog to read a blog post on the research project discussed in the podcast.  The blog post is titled, Effects of liquid man...

Sarah Schieck, UMN Swine Extension Educator talks to graduate student Julia Holen about her undergraduate research on the effects of dietary zinc source and concentration on performance of growing-finishing pigs reared with reduced floor space. Listen to the podcast (recorded December 13, 2017)

Podcast Episode 4: Coping with the shortage of vitamins A and E in swine diets Sarah Schieck, UMN Swine Extension Educator talks to Jae-Cheol Jang, Postdoctoral Associate with the University of Minnesota Department of Animal Science about his research on coping with the shortage of vitamins A and E in swine diets as a result of a fire at a production facility in Germany and the closure of a manufa...