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Feedstuffs in Focus — 325 episodes

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Layer immune health control programs go beyond single fix

2

Smart bets in uncertain ag markets

3

Ceasefire does little to ease fertilizer market woes

4

AI for early poultry disease detection

5

Is your message clear and understood or just loud?

6

Early-life respiratory disease shapes dairy-beef crossbred cattle performance

7

Inside the feed supply chain: How nutrient shortages are impacting U.S. protein sector

8

Akralos to deliver advanced feed and nutrition solutions

9

Trust through science: Common Swine Industry Audit

10

Study defines value and challenges of Mississippi River shipping channel

11

Preparing gilts with purpose, managing to maximize genetic potential

12

Eggs take top billing in new U.S. Dietary Guidelines

13

IPPE 2026: Bigger, busier, even better

14

Intestinal health, immunity and profit in modern dairies

15

Genetics against PRRS losses

16

Pig livability influenced by nursery pig management, feeding practices

17

Inside the waterlines: Fixing hidden performance robbers in swine barns

18

Inside the rumen: Phages, feed and future dairy nutrition

19

From field to feed bunk: The HarvXtra Alfalfa advantage

20

Inside U.S. dairy: Immigration, trade, MAHA and the Farm Bill

21

Human influenza spillover elimination is simple way to cut disease risks (updated audio)

22

HarvXtra Alfalfa: Rewriting the rules of quality and yield

23

Breaking barriers: Revolutionizing agricultural technology adoption

24

MANRRS: Building lifetime connections, careers in agriculture

25

Battling mortality: The pig livability project

26

Vaccination debate: Protecting poultry from the bird flu

27

Feed milling dynamics: What should we monitor and what can we improve?

28

The invisible shield: Rethinking biosecurity through air quality

29

Beating the summer carcass weight dip: Strategies with soybean meal

30

Digital bridges: When technology strengthens human connections in agriculture

31

The hidden truth about cows in our food system

32

Advancing global livestock solutions: Phibro's portfolio growth

33

Beyond climate debate: Finding cows that do more with less

34

Strategies for managing PRRS in modern swine operations

35

Young consumers perceive pork a bit differently

36

NIOSH cuts stand to put agricultural worker safety at risk

37

American shipbuilding vs. agricultural exports: The trade-off timeline

38

Protecting your herd and profits with strong line of defense

39

Beyond average daily gain: The true path to cattle profitability

40

Decoding public sentiment: How web-scraped data shapes poultry market decisions

41

Shell Egg Contract: Financial innovation for market volatility

42

Ileitis treatment options and resulting correlation on average daily gain

43

PPE has a role to play in preventing influenza A

44

Traveling the world to tell the story of cows

45

Swine respiratory disease risk can be minimized, eliminated

46

Use or non-use of treatment therapies for respiratory disease in finishing pigs

47

Red dye ban may have implications for feed industry

48

When it comes to cows, it's not all black and white

49

Policy and the new Administration: What’s likely ahead?

50

Of pigs and men: Best-laid plans for prevention and control of African swine fever

51

Unveiling biofilm threats: Safeguarding swine health and boosting farm efficiency

52

IPPE 2025: What you need to know before you go

53

SPECIAL REPORT: State of the pork industry: Navigating economics, policy amidst challenges

54

Online dashboard offers near-real time global swine disease surveillance

55

New findings on fan coverings for biocontainment of airborne swine pathogens

56

Production, labeling standards drive Germany's poultry industry

57

New swine respiratory disease treatment flexibility from nursery to finish

58

Managing seasonal variation, herd constraints in a hog operation

59

Federal Milk Marketing Order reform not expected to negatively impact milk checks

60

New feed additive helps dairy farmers get more out of forage

61

Animal feed sector innovations on display

62

Mhp Elimination Program Case Study: Country View Family Farms

63

Swine Respiratory Disease Management 101

64

SPECIAL REPORT: US Swine Health Improvement Plan focused on bettering animal health

65

Biosecurity in livestock production: Impact on animal and gut health

66

Exploring the microbial world: What is known? What is next?

67

Does falling milk production mask US dairy industry capacity for growth?

68

New vaccine technology may offer new solution

69

SPECIAL REPORT: Mitigation of feed risk as part of best-in-class biosecurity program

70

Soybean meal net energy: Practical application to formulation strategies and economics

71

Farm economy expected to remain under pressure

72

Camera technology has benefits in pig barns

73

America’s pig farmers benefit from increased traceability

74

Managing risk and creating resiliency in livestock sector

75

State of the beef industry: Is liquidation finally slowing?

76

EXCEDE® for Swine (ceftiofur crystalline free acid) rapidly reached therapeutic plasma concentration levels

77

Latest measure of PRRS shows mounting cost for pork producers

78

How trace minerals can help support immune function in weaned calves

79

Learning to listen to nursery pigs

80

Lessons learned from wean-to-harvest biosecurity program

81

Producer tools for pig livability

82

Prop 12 fix, labor, foreign animal disease on pork industry radar

83

Versatility helps simplify mineral decisions

84

Dried poultry litter unlikely cause of HPAI in dairy cattle

85

Raw material purchasing: The basics and the future

86

Connect to build trust around the tough issues

87

Getting the best out of a breeding operation

88

SPECIAL REPORT: Global pork and food demand amidst rapidly changing demographics

89

Managing the avian influenza outbreak in the dairy industry

90

Food circularity: Time to disrupt linear model of current food system?

91

Expansion of innovative solutions drives Novus acquisition of BRI

92

Animal feed part of food waste, loss solution

93

Pork industry resiliency makes world a better place

94

Live swine traceability minimizes disease risk

95

Lessons learned from going Prop 12 compliant

96

Market growth, White House Egg Roll are focus of US egg industry

97

Sustainable livestock systems can contribute to climate action

98

Documentary: What’s a world without cows?

99

Hatchability remains major industry challenge

100

Swine industry now in charge when it comes to PRRS

101

IPPE: Eleven football fields of solutions and educational offerings

102

Unveiling economic challenges, investing in pork demand solutions

103

Robust, full-value pigs offer profitability advantage

104

Trust your tools and third parties to cultivate confidence

105

Soybean meal – both a nutritional and prescriptive ingredient – mitigates respiratory disease impact on pig performance

106

Controlling and eliminating PRRSV L1C variant

107

Program to highlight regulatory changes for feed industry

108

Post-COVID regulatory environment brings increase in enforcement

109

Sizzling success: Cracking the multigenerational pork market

110

Supporting sows and swine producers post-Prop 12

111

Strategizing for a successful succession plan

112

Special Report: Practical ways to handle the most expensive swine pathogen

113

Special Report: Emerging diseases: Sapovirus

114

Maximizing labor efficiency with feeds that challenge the assumptions

115

Roadmap to better animal welfare and its impact

116

Special Report: Lawsonia: Silent robbers of feed

117

Drinking water challenges require identifying, correcting

118

Special Report: Mycoplasma knocks down ADG and secondary cull markets

119

Renewable fertilizer mines of the future

120

Prop 12 certification: What do you need to know

121

Soybeans: Exports, food vs fuel, economic benefit to US economy

122

The soybean meal NE value conundrum

123

Old crop, new crop: How’s this fall harvest season setting up

124

Color stability differences in pork muscle

125

Role of biodiversity in a profitable and sustainable farm

126

The new Model Pet Food and Specialty Pet Food Regulations: What do we need to know

127

Productive energy: A new, old way to approach bird diets

128

How to build a better laying hen

129

New product promotes successful farrowing and pig livability

130

Managing economic uncertainty in pork sector

131

New discoveries in the connection between swine nutrition and immune health

132

Generative AI: What's it mean for your business?

133

Intelligent nutrition comes to the animal protein industry

134

Sow pelvic organ prolapse appears to have genetic, environmental basis

135

Better understanding needed of protozoal disease in turkeys

136

Next steps following Supreme Court Proposition 12 ruling

137

Accelerating practical solutions for agriculture

138

The ups and downs of today's ag economy

139

Rendering industry gets its own day

140

Private cellular networking may benefit on-farm data collection

141

OTC to prescription: What might GFI 263 mean for you?

142

Rail mergers, river situation: What's likely ahead for this spring?

143

Advancing sustainability in U.S. pork industry

144

New methodology that proves ROI of early disease detection

145

Belt and suspender opportunity exists in PRRS battle

146

Southeast Asia key part of Cargill global animal nutrition growth

147

Using art to tell a story, convey life messages

148

Animal disease impact on human and public health

149

Finding that balance

150

Certification and audits under Prop 12: What do you need to know

151

What does global feed production reveal about future of agri-food?

152

African swine fever and the feed mill: How best to minimize risk

153

Time to rethink zinc in pig diets?

154

Pondering 'The Future of Agriculture' in terms of technology, innovation, capital

155

Biosecurity app aids producers, veterinarians and government officials

156

Discussing PRRS and Senecavirus with Scott Dee

157

Averting a rail strike: What it means for feed, livestock industries

158

Is there really a shortage of butter or turkey this holiday season?

159

U.S. poultry industry generates nearly $560B in economic impact

160

Work to reduce environmental footprint of animal ag comes under attack

161

SPECIAL REPORT: Writing and executing effective swine health protocols

162

A nutritionist's perspective on pre, pro, and postbiotics in food animal production

163

SPECIAL REPORT: Advice on dealing with chronic health challenges and disease elimination programs

164

Intestinal health from a swine production system lens

165

SPECIAL REPORT: The latest on endemic bacterial research and whole genome sequencing

166

Nutrition program designed to improve dairy cow lactation performance

167

SPECIAL REPORT: An update on the current state of PRRS in the U.S.

168

What U.S. cattle producers can learn from Brazilian ranchers response to extreme weather

169

River levels complicate already complex set of challenges facing ag exports

170

Understanding the Latest Research on Feed Ingredients and Swine Biosecurity

171

Selecting breeding stock for enhanced disease robustness

172

Volatility is name of game in grain markets

173

Tackling food insecurity in uncertain times

174

Inflation: How long can meat prices stay this high?

175

Understanding a U.S.-based solution to rising fertilizer costs

176

Consumers still buying meat in face of inflation

177

Examining opportunities, challenges in exporting more meat to Africa

178

Beef industry priorities in next farm bill

179

Economic headwinds, drought cloud outlook for cattle producer profitability

180

Labeling, regulation key to novel food ingredients

181

Tackling biosecurity in finishing phase of swine production

182

Economist David Widmar examines corn usage and outlook for feed and fuel

183

Attracting capital investment in animal agriculture

184

Inflation making for interesting choices at meat case

185

Preparing for foreign animal disease outbreaks in pork industry

186

What does inflation, interest rate risk mean for farmland values?

187

Inside Washington from a beef industry perspective

188

Mark Lyons talks sustainability and previews Alltech ONE Conference

189

Russia's war on Ukraine taking toll on European feed, livestock Industry

190

Rail delays cost grain industry more than $100M this year

191

Research quantifies cost of "gilt gap"

192

A Conversation with New Animal Ag Alliance CEO Hannah Thompson-Weeman

193

Legal strategies to avoid litigation in the livestock industry

194

SCOTUS to Hear Prop 12 Case Brought by Farm Bureau, Pork Producers

195

High pathogenic avian influenza: What's the same, what's different?

196

Effect of rising interest rates and inflation on ag exports

197

Is long-term growth in the agricultural equipment market sustainable?

198

Animal disease preparedness and response: A state veterinarian's perspective

199

Labor challenges: Preventing and managing employee burnout

200

Understanding the beef supply chain in a "Post-COVID world"

201

Vaccine mandates and OSHA: What you need to know

202

Beef nutrition program features 100% organic trace minerals

203

Discussing challenges, opportunities and 2022 global protein outlook

204

How does EPA figure into 2022 ag policy outlook?

205

Trade NAFTA visa program could help with ag labor challenges

206

Plant-to-plate: Plant-based market offers new premium opportunities

207

Honoring a legacy of service to the hog industry

208

Managing economically important diseases in swine industry

209

Recruiting, retaining employees: Tips you can use

210

Consequences of their choices need conveying to consumers

211

Advancing animal agriculture together: What will it take?

212

Diversifying strategy so US pork remains competitive globally

213

U.S. protein sector needs trade negotiators back at table

214

Management and nutrition tips to optimize milk components

215

Regenerative farming and the future of the meat industry

216

Pathways to Dairy Net Zero climate initiative garners global support

217

Optimizing nutrient management while decreasing greenhouse gas emissions

218

Sustainable food production is focus of dairy industry partnership

219

Wrangling over budget, infrastructure funding, taxes

220

Quorum sensing: Understanding the science of bacterial communication

221

Using genetic selection to reduce uterine prolapse in sows

222

Assessing damage to grain, soy trade from Hurricane Ida

223

Policy Update: WOTUS and Infrastructure Spending

224

Challenge of manufacturing feed operation amid drought, wildfire

225

Drought, COVID and the cattle cycle

226

Animal protein outlook remains strong despite inflation concerns

227

Can animal health industry move environmental needle?

228

Leading through adversity and change

229

What research tells us about limited feeding heifers and bunk space

230

GIPSA, "Product of the USA" labels, ocean freight: What's ahead for agriculture?

231

A pulse on beef industry’s environmental hoofprint

232

How worried should livestock and feed producers be about inflation?

233

What does Biden's infrastructure bill hold for agriculture?

234

JBS ransomware attack highlights vulnerabilities in protein value chain

235

African swine fever in Vietnam: An update and future research

236

Gene-editing may face an uphill battle with dairy farmers

237

Navigating Prop 12 compliance without sacrificing farrowing rates

238

Container shortage creates major challenges for ag exporters

239

What lessons has feed industry learned from COVID-19?

240

As country "reopens", foodservice challenges remain

241

Tyson Foods lets the chickens do the choosing

242

SPECIAL REPORT: Practical experience in developing a Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae elimination program

243

What Biden's infrastructure plan does for ag industry

244

Plant-based gets the press, but beef still king of grill

245

Exploring feed and grain producer priorities in upcoming infrastructure policy

246

SPECIAL REPORT: Immune responses following Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae infection

247

Research shows strong consumer trust in U.S. farmers

248

Talking food price inflation, livestock feed costs and commodity supercycles with economist Scott Irwin

249

SPECIAL REPORT: Tools for practical diagnosis of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae

250

Survey results suggest farmers threatened by new Administration and Congress

251

SPECIAL REPORT: Relevance and impact of swine respiratory disease complex and Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae in modern pork production

252

Precision technology in the barn: Where are we, and where are we going?

253

Record winter storms pummel cattle country

254

Opportunities for 2021 pork exports after record-setting 2020

255

Cattle liquidation delay has implications for pork, poultry

256

Consumer 'food values' remain steady in spite of COVID-19

257

African swine fever vaccine: What could it mean for the hog industry?

258

Feeding, housing and managing "The Millennial Pig"

259

Feedstuffs launches new virtual community, feed ingredient pricing tool

260

Canada, now Australia, why not the U.S.?

261

Agriculture and environmental groups form alliance on climate policy

262

A conversation with Farm Credit Administration chairman Glen Smith

263

China's rebuilding of hog sector to require adjustment for U.S. industry

264

Turkeys and presidential pardons have long tradition

265

Global feed biosecurity aim of port analysis

266

EPA, dairy industry sign MOU on sustainability

267

Promoting the brand, creating miles of smiles

268

Talking CFAP and more with FSA's Fordyce

269

Taking the pulse of consumers: Conversation with Jayson Lusk

270

Capitalizing on consumer interest in local meat processing

271

Increasing milk protein is one way to improve dairy profitability

272

Solution for minimizing wildfire risk not easy but needed

273

Amino acid imbalance aids in slowing of pig growth rate

274

Dairy checkoff does COVID-19 pivot

275

Decline in school lunch milk consumption may affect future health

276

Former Sen. Heitkamp discusses her One Country Project

277

Sustainability to be focus of nation’s largest research dairy

278

‘Ice-block’ challenge model tests virus mitigation in feed

279

MCFAs serve multiple roles in swine rations

280

Dairy market outlook murky after rebounding from COVID-19

281

COVID, cage-free movement pose ongoing challenges to egg industry

282

These goat interns aren’t half baaaahhhhd!

283

Demonstration project evaluates viral survival in feed

284

A meat scientist's perspective on backyard grilling, meat quality

285

Vilsack says jury still out on USMCA, dairy exports

286

It’s about taking on, working through, challenges

287

National Pork Board CEO talks current state of market

288

Charting a path forward for beef markets

289

Is current COVID-19 aid for livestock producers enough?

290

People factor essential to animal agriculture's ethical obligation

291

Ag lender advises to 'control what’s controllable'

292

Hey animal agriculture, it’s time to get personal

293

Unpacking consumer research, meat panic-buying amid COVID-19

294

Business insurance in pandemic times

295

'Farmer Focus' drives growth of Shenandoah Valley organic poultry

296

Biosecurity, disinfecting of pig barns shouldn’t be ignored

297

Iowa fish farm poised to take on import-dominated market

298

Pigs saving lives hard hit by COVID-19

299

U.S. pet food industry feeds pets, economy

300

Special Report: COVID-19 takes toll on packing plant workers, operations

301

COVID-19 emergency school nutrition campaign takes on hunger

302

Water quality: A matter of life or death

303

Livestock tech industry faces connectivity challenges

304

Special Report: Farm Bureau economist discusses COVID-19 impact

305

Special Report: Frontline observations from animal food industry in COVID-19 battle

306

NCBA CEO talks COVID19, Brazil beef, GIPSA

307

Special Report: Talking COVID-19 and the impact on livestock markets

308

Farmer of the Future: What will agriculture look like in 2040?

309

A trade chat with USDA undersecretary Ted McKinney

310

USDA's Greg Ibach talks African swine fever

311

How Walmart is shaking up beef supply chain

312

Talking dairy innovation with 'Chad the cheese guy'

313

Getting to Know AFIA's New President Constance Cullman, and Talking Turkey (and broilers and eggs) with Brian Earnest

314

A Conversation with Alltech CEO Mark Lyons

315

Individualizing Sow Care to Reduce Losses, Optimize Performance and Well-being

316

Swine Genetics and Robustness to Disease

317

Taking a Deep Dive into USMCA and Key Trade Policy Issues

318

Livestock Outlook: Fresh Start or More of the Same?

319

State of the Industry: NGFA's Randy Gordon on 2020

320

Behind the Meat Case: Thinking Like a Retailer

321

Projecting Moderate Feed Prices in 2020

322

Understanding Financial Stress In Farm Country

323

Veterinarians Discuss African Swine Fever Prevention

324

Growing the Global Market for Protein: Perspectives from the Soybean Industry

325

Livestock Production and Climate Change: A conversation with Robin White of Virginia Tech