How to Reduce Wean to Finish Mortality Without Guessing | Nat Stas

About the Guest

Nat Stas is a Technical Services Director for PIC and has been in the commercial swine industry for 15 years, 8 of which have been with PIC. He holds a master’s degree from University of Illinois under Dr. Mike Ellis focusing on swine genetics and reproduction.

In addition to Nat’s commitment to the commercial swine industry, he currently stays involved in the American Society of Animal Science and many livestock youth development programs and swine research programs. Nat resides in Latrobe, Pennsylvania with his wife and twin daughters.

What can you expect to learn from this episode of Popular Pig?

• Why finishing mortality keeps climbing and why it costs you the most money.
• How tracking week on feed at death can quickly narrow down where your real problems are.
• Why cutting pigs open and getting a true diagnosis beats guessing every time.
• The simple things that matter most: getting pigs started right, keeping feed in front of them, avoiding feed outages, and managing space and sound feet late in finishing.