Podcast on pig breeding and sow mortality

The Real P3 podcast series is an initiative where pork professionals from around the world are interviewed about challenges and solutions in their day-to-day work.

“Raised from birth showing and raising pigs”

Dr Casey Bradley Casey speaks to a friend of her father, long-time pure-bred breeder, Dennis Wooden age 63, who has been involved in many organisations in the swine and agriculture industries.

After being on the state board for 39 years and being a past president of the Michigan Pork Producers, Wooden was “raised from birth showing pigs and raising pigs”. He talks about how, at that time, “we really didn’t have that many cross-bred sows,” and notes that the industry has seen significant changes. “We were in total confinement in about 1972,” he says, owing to labour, land prices and diseases.

During this podcast, Dr Bradley and Wooden discuss sow mortality and proper selection, what diversification looks like in the swine industry, and why it’s important to be concerned with the problems facing the small producers in both the US and around the world.

The episode is the 3^rd in a 3-part series of the Real P3 podcast, in which Dr Casey Bradley celebrates the 70^th birthday of her father, swine nutritionist Craig Bradley.

Earlier episodes of the Real P3 podcast

In the previous weeks, Pig Progress published earlier episodes of the Real P3 podcast series:

• The prologue of the podcast series;
• Episode 1: Mihaela Angheluta, Denmark;
• Episode 2: Christine Snowden, Ohio, USA;
• Episode 3: Johan Odendall, Zimbabwe;
• Episode 4: James Lamb, North Carolina, USA;
• Episode 5: Dr Wayne Johnson, China;
• Episode 6: Colin Twomey, Ireland;
• Episode 7: Paul Faris, USA;
• Episode 8: A recap of 2020;
• Episode 9: Angie Krieger, USA;
• Episode 10: Henry Silva, USA;
• Episode 11: Shannon Dierking, USA;
• Episode 12: Sanne Baden, Denmark;
• Episode 13: Brian Strobel, USA;
• Episode 14: Nii Odoi, Ghana;
• Episode 15: Pieter Beerens, the Netherlands;
• Episode 16: Steven Payne, South Africa;
• Episode 17, part 1: Caroline Gonzalez-Vega, Germany;
• Episode 17, part 2: Jim Smith, USA;
• Episode 17, part 3: Ana Lucia Pozzobon de Souza, USA;
• Episode 18: Zhaohui “Edward” Yang, USA;
• Episode 19: Ron Simmons, USA;
• Episode 20: Porcast’s Jean-Philippe Martineau and Louis-Philippe Roy, France;
• Episode 21: Amanda Minton and Dr Justin Fix, USA;
• Episode 22: Dr Daniel Columbus, Canada;
• Episode 23: Dave Klocke, USA.
• Episode 24: part 1: Dr Craig Bradley, Michigan, USA.
• Episode 24, part 2: Scott McKenzie, Michigan, USA.