{"podcast":{"title":"Feedstuffs in Focus","slug":"feedstuffs-in-focus-695079","podcast_index_feed_id":695079,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2435813.rss","website_url":"https://www.feedstuffs.com","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/t6cjqsf0t7fn6x33jztyduu5cucp?.jpg","author":"Feedstuffs","episode_count":328,"summary":"Feedstuffs in Focus is a weekly look at the hot issues in the livestock, poultry, grain and feed industries. Join us as we talk with industry influencers, experts and leaders about trends and more. Feedstuffs in Focus is produced by the team at Feedstuffs.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-05T22:19:58.278341+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/feedstuffs-in-focus-695079"},"episode":{"title":"Inside the waterlines: Fixing hidden performance robbers in swine barns","slug":"inside-the-waterlines-fixing-hidden-performance-robbers-in-swine-barns","published_at":"2025-11-13T20:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/feedstuffs-in-focus-695079/inside-the-waterlines-fixing-hidden-performance-robbers-in-swine-barns","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/feedstuffs-in-focus-695079","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2435813/episodes/18186614-inside-the-waterlines-fixing-hidden-performance-robbers-in-swine-barns.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2435813/episodes/18186614-inside-the-waterlines-fixing-hidden-performance-robbers-in-swine-barns.mp3","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...","meta_description":"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 r…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":506,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/feedstuffs-in-focus-695079/episodes/inside-the-waterlines-fixing-hidden-performance-robbers-in-swine-barns/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/feedstuffs-in-focus-695079/inside-the-waterlines-fixing-hidden-performance-robbers-in-swine-barns.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}