Podcast: Highlights from the 2022 Midwest ASAS Meetings

The Real P3 podcast series is an initiative where pork professionals from around the globe share their thoughts, insights, and solutions to their day-to-day challenges in the pig farming and production industry.

‘I am not Bossy – Professional Women in the Allied Industry’

Dr Bradley chaired and helped to arrange a symposium entitled ‘I am not Bossy – Professional Women in the Allied Industry’. In the first part of this podcast, she talked about the inspiration behind it and highlights some interesting concerns and realities for women in the swine sector and which were presented by various women in the industry.

Edward Yang on sustainability in pork production

In the second part of this podcast, Edward Yang (soon to be Dr Yang), a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Minnesota and originally from China, talked about other ASAS Midwest highlights. Yang is a swine nutritionist with a focus on grower-finisher pigs and has spent the last 10 years in the US working with pigs.

At the symposium, Yang won a Young Scholar Award for his work around sustainability and precision feeding in pig production. He talks about the work being done to help the climate change problem, specifically nitrogen, which can be damaging to the environment. There are many opportunities, he said, to reduce waste and recycle nitrogen to make the pork industry more sustainable. Being a nutritionist, his focus was on feeding programmes and gathering real data using a life-cycle assessment model.