German hog farms adapt to stall-free, drug-free model

Germany, it appears, could teach Canadian hog farmers a thing or two. And two of its hog producers came here to the annual swine industry seminar recently to do exactly that. German producers have learned through trial and “a lot of mistakes” how to raise hogs in free-stall conditions, said Dr. Friedrich Osterhoff of Ahrhoff

U. K. producers have success with batch farrowing

Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain Consulting Ltd. of Lacombe, Alberta, and editor of Western Hog Journal. His columns will run every second week in the Manitoba Co-operator. A recent survey by U. K. pharmaceutical company Janssen Animal Health suggests that more than half of producers in the country farrow batches of sows every