Ketchem: Sow mortality issues tied partly to labor

Ketchem: Sow mortality issues tied partly to labor

A swine ‘information solutions’ company sees increasing sow mortality in farrowing houses tied partly to ag labor issues.

Ron Ketchem with Swine Management Services of Fremont,

Nebraska says there’s a high turnover of labor and that affects hog production.

He tells Brownfield Ag News, “We just don’t have enough labor in a lot of our

sow farms to get the daily things done along with the other things like sanitation

and walking pens and doing those things.

Continue reading Ketchem: Sow mortality issues tied partly to labor at Brownfield Ag News.