24 March 2022

2 minute read

By: Márcio Gonçalves

There is not only one right way to effectively run a swine farm, and no country in the world has all the right answers. Many countries excel in some aspects, but lack in others. In today’s talk with Dr. Laura Greiner, Dr. Roger Campbell discusses different pork production practices around the world, and what he thinks needs to change in the US to improve certain aspects of swine production.

"𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘪𝘨𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘺." - 𝗗𝗿. 𝗥𝗼𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗹

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻:

00:00 Introduction

01:46 The most significant issues in the swine industry for the next ten years

05:30 Strategies to help offset those issues

08:18 Group housing sows

11:49 How to make sows successful

13:42 How is Australia handling increased labor today?

15:22 What are we missing about feed efficiency?

18:29 Opportunities for sows to improve feed efficiency

22:54 The capabilities of sows

26:54 Technologies in creep feeding

29:25 Key points

32:02 Famous 3 questions

𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁: Dr. Campbell received his Ph.D. in 1973 in Nutrition and Physiology from the University of Melbourne. After that, he worked for a large integrator in Australia. From 2005 to 2018, he led the Pork CRC as their CEO as they conducted hundreds of experiments and trained dozens of students. Recently, Roger opened his own consulting business named RG Campbell Advisory.