Do your pig farm workers understand you?

Pairis-Garcia
Monique Pairis-Garcia Associate professor and veterinarian, North Carolina State University, USA
Photo: Shutterstock
Photo: Shutterstock
At universities, exciting novel techniques can be developed, but how much of that gets implemented if pig farm workers don’t understand it? Extension should take into account that information needs to be available in other languages too, writes animal welfare expert Dr Monique Pairis-Garcia. Research allows us to answer the question why and provide best management practices for improving welfare on-farm. However, producers regularly do not adopt recommended practices and often make management


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