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An evening webinar with AHDB Pork and Nigel Woolfenden (Bishopton Veterinary Group).

A film of the Natural England's CSF department. Catchment Sensitive Farming (CSF) delivers practical solutions and targeted support to enable farmers and land managers to take voluntary action to reduce diffuse water pollution from agriculture to protect water bodies and the environment.

This Meat MythCrusher video features Dr. Stacy Scramlin from South Dakota State University touring a sow housing facility to discuss different housing types and what determines humane handling of pigs raised for food.

Watch this episode of Food Comes from Farms to view the conditions that pigs live in on a daily basis.

Erin Ehinger from Dykhuis farms in Michigan explains why individual sow housing allows her to provide the best possible care to the sows.

I started building this house this past January 2011 and just finished it on May 1, 2011. It holds 1200 pigs.

The feeder pigs have arrived on our farm. We raise about 60 pigs each year. When the pigs reach about 250 pounds we sell them as custom pork packages to local customers.

In the U.S., the individual gestation stall for sows is being banned based on perception, not science, and that has Janeen Salak-Johnson, a University of Illinois associate professor in animal science, looking for answers as what is best for the sow from a welfare standpoint. In fact, she believes the decisions being made on the legislative front are premature and could possibly put sows in a welfare compromised situation.

Learn why farming is family tradition for Illinois pork producer Dereke Dunkirk as he talks about his passion for agriculture.

George Beattie settled his farm near Sumner, Nebraska, in 1906. Today, the farm is in the hands of father and son, Jeff and Bart Beattie. This generation - fourth and fifth - run the hog farm according to the values and traditions passed down from great-grandfather and grandfather.