Welcome to the Pig Pen! October is upon us, which means many of my readers are anxiously waiting for their best sows to pass over their first heat-cycle since being bred for early January pigs. This is the time of year when I also get many calls with questions about why sows don’t settle. Is it bad semen? Is it timing? Did I use the wrong kind of AI rod? What did I do wrong?

Just because you “have the right” does not make it a good idea.

Welcome to the Pig Pen. The land of the free and the home of the brave has been in an uproar over NFL players staging their protests during the playing of the national anthem at football games. Even if you’ve been living under a rock you had to have heard some of the noise as even President Trump commented publicly about it.