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SwineCast 0356 Show Notes:

• Looking at the fallout from California's Prop 2 with California producer and National Pork Board president Steve Weaver
• Higher grains this winter?  Mike Woolverton says the market needs to buy about 4 mln more corn acres.
• Some interesting parallels in today's economic turmoil and what agriculture dealt with in the 80's

SwineCast 0355 Show Notes:

• Dr Don Mahan looks at gender impact on mineral utilization
• Net Feed Energy with Degussa's Rob Payne

SwineCast 0354 Show Notes:

• Special post-election insight on new administration's transition and impact on agriculture  

SwineCast 0353 Show Notes:

• Conversations from the International Distillers Dried Grains Conference
• Markets and values of DDGs with Informa Economics Scott Richman
• Brian Arnold of the DeLong Company discusses transportation and long-term infrastructure issues in shipping and hauling

SwineCast 0352 Show Notes:

• Soybean growers appreciate your business
• Research at the University of IL looks at impact of new processing technology on nutritional value of soy meal for piglets
• Looking at agroterrorism planning in your operation.  It starts locally

SwineCast 0351 Show Notes:

• Update on DDGs research with UMN's Dr Gerry Shurson, presenter at the Leman conference
• What is fractionation and why is it important to the ethanol industry and feed users?  A presentation from the International DDGs conference

SwineCast 0350 Show Notes:

• Special Soviet travelogue with Genesus Jim Long, just back from Russia and the Ukraine.

SwineCast 0349 Show Notes:

• Brett Stuart of Global AgriTrends shares his take on changing trends in the global pork complex with Leman attendees
• Hog markets may trend closely with... the Russell 2000?  Dr Dennis DiPietre has more
• Danisco's Dr Aaron Cowieson looks at managing enzymes and nutrition

SwineCast 0348 Show Notes:

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SwineCast 0347 Show Notes:

• Conversation with Dr Brooke Humphrey on Amino Acids and Immunology based on his presentation at a recent poultry conference
• Dr Vincent Amanor-Boadu recaps recent economic anemia and the impact on agriculture

SwineCast 0346 Show Notes:

• Enriching the biosecurity in your transport system
• MycoFLEX offering from BI kills two birds with one injection
• Canadian companies willing to wait and see what impact COOL has on movement

SwineCast 0345 Show Notes:

• Special Economic Crisis Backgrounder from Purdue's School of Agriculture presented on October 6, 2008 

SwineCast 0344 Show Notes:

• How are Wall Street's problems and your incentive system related?  Dr Dennis DiPietre looks at his recent blog post on the Headliners tab above
• Higher unemployment numbers may expand your hiring pool but onboarding will have a larger impact on your retention.  And that's what hiring is all about

SwineCast 0343 Show Notes:

• Dealing with current financial unrest on mainstreet.  How local businesses are affected
• Feed Energy's Bob Riley looks at supplies, feed values, ethanol imports and quality of DDGs in todays market 

SwineCast 0342 Show Notes:

• Pig Crop Report report... inventory higher and waiting to see who blinks
• SwineCast Blogger Mark Greenwood from the Leman.. a look at Wall Street and Main Street
• Filtering for PRRS with Leman presenter Jeff Feder of the Swine Vet Center

SwineCast 0341 Show Notes:

• Special "At The Meeting" release from the Morrison Group at the Leman Conference looks at PCV-AD research

SwineCast 0340 Show Notes:

• At the Leman Conference... the question is... are your pigs approachable?
• Garth Boyd of CAMCO, keynote speaker, shares take home from his address

SwineCast 0339 Show Notes:

• NPPC's Legislative Conference underway with key issues to be discussed with congressmen
• Swine dysentery... the health issue that won't go away.  Dr Steve McOrist shares how to beat the bug

SwineCast 0338 Show Notes:

• Overview of Friday's Production and Supply/Demand report
• Water usage may limit expansion of corn acreage to the west
• Jim Harvey of Heartland Financial shares considerations for generational transition from the Farm Progress Show

SwineCast 0337 Show Notes:

• Special presentation with Dr Orlen Grunewald about his presentation at the Kansas State Risk and Profit conference