Video tours demystify pork production

Video tours demystify pork production

Photo: SDSU Extension

People everywhere can tour a state-of-the-art swine research unit thanks to video live-streaming. South Dakota State University swine specialist Bob Thaler says after a new swine unit was opened near the campus, a student began giving video tours.

“Just using cellphone, she can walk through our farrowing rooms, gestation, our finishing barns,” Thaler told Brownfield Ag News, “and have that live-streaming to a conference anywhere in the world.”

SDSU is partnering with the National Pork Board’s Operation Main Street program “to demystify how pigs are raised,” according to Thaler.

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