Episode
Inside the waterlines: Fixing hidden performance robbers in swine barns
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- Feedstuffs in Focus
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- Nov 13, 2025
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- 506
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Summary
Think water is the simplest input on a swine farm? We open the waterlines and find a living system that can quietly limit growth, blunt medications, and raise mortality if it goes unmanaged. With Dr. Gabi Doughan from Iowa State University, we connect barn-floor realities to lab-backed strategies that turn “clean enough” water into a performance advantage. We walk through a practical roadmap for testing what truly matters at the source and the drinker: pH and hardness that drive mineral scal...