Todd Thurman, Swine Insights International
January 30, 2024
This year I’m celebrating 25 years in the pork industry. I started my first full time job in the industry in May of 1999. It was a heady time. On my first day...
Tuesday January 30, 2024
GRAINS:
The drought maps are improving and there is rain in the forecast for the Great Plains and Corn Belt approaching spring. My long-term weather guy is calling for a very wet April and May in the...
Data analysis is the process of inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information. However, without proper data analysis, you may draw the wrong conclusion.
Without perspective, you may think things are going really poorly,...
Artificial intelligence (AI) use is on the rise in agriculture and elsewhere, thanks to generative AI platforms like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. AI is often described as a Black Box, where data is fed into the box and decisions are made,...
Originally printed in The LAND - as January 5, 2024 Swine & U column
The term sustainability is ubiquitous in modern agriculture, perhaps ad nauseam. While the common desire is to be infinite – as one farmer suggested as a...
MARKET OUTLOOK 2024: GROWTH AT SLOWER PACE
At the start of the New Year, Hamlet Protein CEO Erik Visser talks about key market drivers and developments. Animal protein production, and with it the production of animal feed, will keep growing...
The life and business of farming is so unique and really hard to describe to anyone who is not from the farming community. I have taken the liberty to enlighten our elected officials on a few attributes about farmers....
Winter has arrived and we have seasonal disease concerns, both in the pig barn and with the caretakers. For the past three years we have been immersed in learning all we can about COVID-19, but the usual winter worries...
We have a clock radio that turns on at 6 am every morning. We used to listen to local news, but the “local” news is no longer local. I guess not everyone listens to the radio for news anymore....
In the Midwest, we’ve historically had more than enough water for everyone. Agricultural, industrial, and residential uses have all developed more or less peacefully (at least in terms of access to water). This usually meant a laissez-faire approach to...