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Healthy Hog Seminar Slated for Late October

Article-Healthy Hog Seminar Slated for Late October

The annual Healthy Hogs Seminar is slated for Oct. 26 in Clinton, NC, at Sampson Community College. The morning program includes talks on how to communicate to your employees, the essentials of rodent control, the National Pork Board’s new Pork Quality Assurance Plus program and aspects of proper ventilation

The annual Healthy Hogs Seminar is slated for Oct. 26 in Clinton, NC, at Sampson Community College.

The morning program includes talks on how to communicate to your employees, the essentials of rodent control, the National Pork Board’s new Pork Quality Assurance Plus program and aspects of proper ventilation.

Afternoon sessions cover farrowing house sanitation and piglet processing, walking the barn and autopsy techniques for nursery-grow-finish production.

A final presentation features on-farm semen receiving, storage and use for a successful artificial insemination program.

Register by contacting Carla McKinney at North Carolina State University at (919) 515-4000.