U of M’s small farm swine health survey is underway

The University of Minnesota has Animal Science faculty who have successfully studied group sow housing, organic pigs and alternative swine production for several years. Readers here are familiar with Dr. Yuzhi Li’s work at the U of M’s West Central Research and Outreach Center conducting university-based, peer-reviewed studies of organic pig farming. Li and Dr. Lee Johnston, both U of M Department of Animal Science faculty, have spent more than a decade developing projects which have measured how well pigs raised in non-traditional or alternative production systems grow, take care of their piglets, and survive.

SWINE & U

By Diane DeWitte