Ed Barrie

Any discussion on farrowing room management begins with sanitation. The challenges to achieving some level of sanitation in an enclosed space that is usually part of a larger facility, where people, pigs, air, products and often rodents intermingle are significant. Compounding this situation is the fact that facilities are often over-used. There is rarely enough time to complete the clean-up, dry ...

Introduction Consumer interest continues to focus on where food comes from and how it is raised. The European Union has banned the use of sow confinement stalls by 2013, and Ohio has banned the use of new gestation stalls, effective July 2010, with existing stalls to be phased out over the next 15 years. Currently, Canada does not ban sow gestation stalls. However, societal pressure and packer r ...