4/27/22
Construction Update
-Dirt work at Westwood and Home Farm to clean up
-Dig a connecting hallway at Home Farm
-Peachwood is back up and running
-Working on lots of small projects at different locations
Crops/Manure
-Pumping manure for the last 3 weeks and that is going well
-In the process of switching to a new GPS company
Production
-Home Farm – first piglets on 4/22/22
-Westwood – first piglets on 4/17/22
-Dogwood – Not farrowing until end of May
-Nursery is seeing great improvement on the death rate
Maintenance
-Restructuring with Cory and Preston so they are only on the finisher side
-We have seasonal worker that is HVAC certified which will be very beneficial
-Office fixes – email Justin Haught, Mark Kipp and Adam Schmitt for any repairs
-33 H2As arriving late this week
-Robin McCumber will be here on 5/2/22 to touch up any painting that needs to be done in the office. If your office needs touch ups please contact Cindy ASAP. [email protected]
Welcome New Employees
-Paola Perez will be working as a receptionist and in the HR department. She is bilingual and will be able to assist with translating.
-Rhonda Dean started early April and is the new Cost Accountant
-Michelle Kuhn will start May 9th and will float between Erica and Jessica’s departments. She will also be available to help with meat orders and receptionist duties
-Two interns (Kynzi Cole & Kole McNeer) will start in the middle of May. They will be running research trials at Dans and they will have a variety of work including:
a. injectable antibiotic on nursery performance, scour
b. colostrum: split suckle management on lifetime productivity
c. birth weight on gilt BA
d. sick/day 1 sort trial
e. gruel feed ~ 2 days
f. lactation management trial
g. hand feed vs full feed prefarrow
h. gilt progeny performance/livability
Team Rewards
-Team rewards need to be used by June 30th. If you need help setting something up please contact Cari.