FarmPro
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Business
As a pork producer, you likely spend hours analyzing your farm’s key performance indicators. You know exactly how every decimal point impacts your feed conversion ratio or farrowing rate.
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Management
Heat stress in growing pigs can begin at temperatures above 70°F, triggering a chain reaction of reduced feed intake, slower growth, poorer feed efficiency, and increased mortality. Because pigs have very few functional sweat glands, even small increases in temperature can have a big impact on their ability to stay cool.
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Pipestone Journal
At Pipestone, our mission is to Help Farmers. Sometimes that means solving big, complex challenges. Other times it means identifying the small things that make a real difference. The articles in this Journal explore decisions that can have an outsized influence on health and performance.
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Health
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Health
If you ask most pig producers what makes an operation run well, you’ll hear things like genetics, feed, or barn design. And all of that matters. But talk to enough people, and one thing keeps rising to the top: communication. At the end of the day, pig production is a team sport.
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Management
Hauling pigs during warm weather requires extra attention to detail to protect animal welfare and maintain efficiency. From shifting temperatures to long hauls, success comes down to preparation, adaptability, and consistency in daily practices. Keeping these key considerations in mind can help producers and drivers navigate summer conditions with confidence.
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Employee Stories
At Pipestone, we live and breathe our core values: Integrity, Caring, Commitment, Growth, and Teamwork. We’re taking a closer look at each value, exploring what they mean to us and how they shape our organization. Our values are the foundation of who we are and how we work together.
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Health
Modern swine production demands more than simply moving pigs efficiently from one barn to the next. Health pressures, labor constraints, and tighter margins have raised the bar for how we manage our systems. One tool I’ve seen continue to prove its value, especially at scale, is pig flow.
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FarmStats
Swine production systems inherently have variation or deviate from the average. Differences in mortality, growth rate, feed efficiency, and market outcomes exist even when pigs are managed under the same general protocols.
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Nutrition
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