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Articles - Management

Occupational suicide rates/100.000 for farmers/Ag workers and all occupations, 1992-2010.

From: Ringgenberg, W., Peek-Asa, C. Donham, K., Ramirez, M. Trends and Conditions of Occupational Suicide and Homicide in Farmers and Agriculture Workers, 1992, 20110. The J. or Rural Health, 0(2017) 1-8 National Rural Health Assn.

(Note: 2008 and 2010 data are either not available or do not meet BLS publication criteria. Fatal injury data and rates were generated/calculated by the author with restricted access to LS CROI microdata).

Health and Safety Risks for Pork Producers

Illness and injuries can cost serious economic, physical, and emotional health issues that can deter from an efficient and enjoyable production system and home life. In this article, I will list several categories of health and safety issues for workers.

Large, climate controlled and well-structured farms allow to work with higher animal welfare standards and allow the workers to enjoy shifts and holidays that were previously impossible, but certain sectors of society have a negative opinion of them.

Challenges of the Spanish pig industry

Spain is, regarding pig census, the third country in the world in relation to pig production, behind China and the USA, and the fourth as pork producer because Germany fattens many piglets imported from The Netherlands and Denmark, and it also slaughters pigs from these and other countries.

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Farrowing house with several sow cards in different colours

Different colours on sow cards

29-Sep-2017

Sometimes, when working on the farm, we have to get up close to the sow to check its card in order to know its productive cycle. Or, whilst carrying piglets to be fostered, we ask ourselves, will that sow be a second parity one?

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