Latest Pork Podcast Episodes

Feedstuffs in Focus artwork

Connect to build trust around the tough issues

Feedstuffs in Focus - April 25, 2024 11:10 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
When people work to see the value in each other and feel connected, the world becomes a better place. When people feel disconnected, daily 'threats' of uncertainty, doubt, and change, become all that they see.  During PEAK 2024 in Minneapolis we caught up with Brian Fretwell, founder of Finding...

BBQ RADIO NETWORK with Andy Groneman & Todd Johns  artwork

CANNABIS INFUSED BBQ?!? with CHEF FRED NESBITT on BBQ RADIO NETWORK

BBQ RADIO NETWORK with Andy Groneman & Todd Johns - April 25, 2024 07:00 - 40 minutes
Chef Fred Nesbitt is one of the country's leading cannabis chefs. Based in San Francisco, Fred is in demand creating dining experiences not for the faint of heart. Classically trained as a chef and augmented with a certification in Cannabis Science & Medicine from the College of Medicine at The ...

Tailgate Guys BBQ Podcast artwork

Tailgate Guys BBQ Podcast, Episode 257: Eric Coley

Tailgate Guys BBQ Podcast - April 24, 2024 16:34 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
On Episode 257 of the Tailgate Guys BBQ Podcast, we talk it over with one of world’s hottest pitmasters. Eric Coley from Alabama’s Poppa Pig BBQ is leading the KCBS Team of the Year standings with three Grand Championships and seven top-10 finishes in eight 2024 competitions. It’s a start that’s...

MeatingPod artwork

Ep. 160: Collaboration, flavors and R&D

MeatingPod - April 22, 2024 05:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Developing custom flavors for new and existing foodservice and restaurant customers for sous vide proteins involves collaboration and communication, according to Keith Goerl, Vice President, R&D and Commercialization at Ed Miniat LLC. Successfully meeting client needs involves employing a variet...

Feedstuffs in Focus artwork

Getting the best out of a breeding operation

Feedstuffs in Focus - April 18, 2024 22:47 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
In order to optimize your porcine breeding process, a number of factors need to come together to ensure success. High-quality semen collection, extension, packaging and storage are a must along with good hygiene and proper handling. Equipment and infrastructure also are essential.  This episode...

Feedstuffs in Focus artwork

SPECIAL REPORT: Global pork and food demand amidst rapidly changing demographics

Feedstuffs in Focus - April 18, 2024 10:01 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Global demographics are rapidly changing. Global population is rapidly shifting. Countries like China are ramping up pork production. What about the aging of the population in general and how might that impact demand for pork products in the future? It is no longer about how we feed the world bu...

BBQ RADIO NETWORK with Andy Groneman & Todd Johns  artwork

COOKING FROZEN MEAT w/JESS PRYLES on BBQ RADIO NETWORK

BBQ RADIO NETWORK with Andy Groneman & Todd Johns - April 18, 2024 07:00 - 41 minutes
As a respected authority on Texas-style barbecue, Jess Pryles is also a co-founder of the Australasian Barbecue Alliance, designed and releases the JP Signature Edition Pitts & Spitts smoker, created an internationally- acclaimed line of meat seasonings under the Hardcore Carnivore® brand and ha...

Tailgate Guys BBQ Podcast artwork

Tailgate Guys BBQ Podcast, Episode 256: Jon Wade of Optimus Swine BBQ

Tailgate Guys BBQ Podcast - April 17, 2024 16:22 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
Jon and Jason Wade of Optimus Swine BBQ out of Williamsburg, Virginia have one of the hottest competition BBQ teams around. Since moving into the KCBS Master’s division a couple of years ago, the Wades have seven Grand Championships and seven RGCs in 63 competitions. They also own and operate tw...

MeatingPod artwork

Ep. 159: The lowdown on asset-light

MeatingPod - April 15, 2024 05:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
All meat analogue companies face a potentially huge hurdle right out of the gate: The cost of the physical plant necessary to make their particular foodstuffs, whether in the form of bioreactors or extruders or mixers, or any of an endless number of other pieces of equipment. And that doesn’t ac...

BBQ RADIO NETWORK with Andy Groneman & Todd Johns  artwork

7x WORLD CHAMPION BLANE HUNTER on BBQ RADIO NETWORK

BBQ RADIO NETWORK with Andy Groneman & Todd Johns - April 11, 2024 07:00 - 41 minutes
Blane Hunter (a.k.a. Mr. Porky Butts) grew up barbecuing in south Texas from a very young age. With over 27 years of experience combined with a Culinary education from Johnson and Wales and FVTC culinary schools Blane started competing professionally in the world of BBQ in 2013. In the seven sho...

Feedstuffs in Focus artwork

Managing the avian influenza outbreak in the dairy industry

Feedstuffs in Focus - April 10, 2024 21:56 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Last week, California dairy producers requested that the State of California use its authority to ban all cattle coming into California from HPIA-infected states until further notice. Following the industry's request for additional action, the California Department of Food & Agriculture increase...

Tailgate Guys BBQ Podcast artwork

Tailgate Guys BBQ Podcast, Episode 255: Burnt Trees BBQ, Richard Fergola

Tailgate Guys BBQ Podcast - April 10, 2024 15:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
Based in north central North Dakota, Burnt Trees BBQ has a long haul no matter where it goes for a competition. But the husband-wife team of Nick and Shannon Holman is almost always a contender when it arrives, with its 2024 debut proving the point. Burnt Trees BBQ captured the 97-team Smoke in ...

MeatingPod artwork

Ep. 158: Flexible automation, robotics updates

MeatingPod - April 08, 2024 05:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Dr. Konrad Ahlin, the senior robotics researcher at the Georgia Tech Research Institute provides updates on the use of flexible automated systems, robotics, artificial intelligence and virtual reality in food processing plants. He also outlines how these advances are affecting plant workers and ...

Feedstuffs in Focus artwork

Food circularity: Time to disrupt linear model of current food system?

Feedstuffs in Focus - April 04, 2024 16:59 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Of the food we grow annually, 40% is lost or wasted. Globally, food loss and waste is responsible for 10% of greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, rates of food insecurity continue to skyrocket. In 2022, nearly 828 million people faced acute food insecurity, an increase of more than 60% si...

BBQ RADIO NETWORK with Andy Groneman & Todd Johns  artwork

What Makes Hot N' Fast Work? TIM SCHEER of GATEWAY SMOKERS on BBQ RADIO NETWORK

BBQ RADIO NETWORK with Andy Groneman & Todd Johns - April 04, 2024 15:00 - 41 minutes
What makes Hot n Fast smoking work? Tim Scheer (who pretty much started the crazy phenomena) explains how his Gateway Drum Smokers get the job done. He will also tell you how he grows Wagyu beef at Marble Ridge Farms. Andy and Todd will have cast iron care and feeding tips for you. www.bbqradio...

Tailgate Guys BBQ Podcast artwork

Tailgate Guys BBQ Podcast, Episode 254: Leonard Aberman, Jeff Cohen from Baseball & BBQ

Tailgate Guys BBQ Podcast - April 04, 2024 13:55 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
There are dozens of options available these days for BBQ-themed podcasts, unlike just a few years ago when the options were relatively limited. One of the longest-running shows is Baseball and BBQ, with co-hosts Leonard Aberman and Jeff Cohen. Combining two of America’s favorite past times, Leon...

Pederson's Farms - Powered by Protein a deep dive into Where your Food come From! artwork

#92 - Cookie Queen Molly Blakeley

Pederson's Farms - Powered by Protein a deep dive into Where your Food come From! - April 03, 2024 16:04 - 19 minutes
Neil interviews Molly Blakely, a remarkable cookie maker from Alaska, who shares her inspiring journey of starting her business with just her last $150 and transforming it into a million-dollar product. Molly candidly recounts the early days of hand mixing cookies in her kitchen with her 10-year...

Pederson's Farms - Powered by Protein a deep dive into Where your Food come From! artwork

#92 - Cookie Queen Molly Blakeley

Pederson's Farms - Powered by Protein a deep dive into Where your Food come From! - April 03, 2024 16:04 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Neil interviews Molly Blakely, a remarkable cookie maker from Alaska, who shares her inspiring journey of starting her business with just her last $150 and transforming it into a million-dollar product. Molly candidly recounts the early days of hand mixing cookies in her kitchen with her 10-year...

MeatingPod artwork

Ep. 157: New systems, avenues for poultry processing

MeatingPod - April 01, 2024 05:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
In this episode, Dr. Casey Owens and Dongyi Wang of the University of Arkansas discuss new advances in identifying quality defects on the chicken processing line and advances in robotics that can handle repetitive line functions like chicken hanging. Our guests also outline how students at the u...

Feedstuffs in Focus artwork

Expansion of innovative solutions drives Novus acquisition of BRI

Feedstuffs in Focus - March 29, 2024 00:18 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Novus International, Inc., announced its acquisition of enzyme company BioResource International, Inc., also known as BRI, in March. Under the terms of the agreement, NOVUS became the owner of all BRI’s products and intellectual property and takes control of the company’s facilities. In making ...

BBQ RADIO NETWORK with Andy Groneman & Todd Johns  artwork

GET READY FOR SUMMER with TRAVIS CLARK on BBQ RADIO NETWORK

BBQ RADIO NETWORK with Andy Groneman & Todd Johns - March 28, 2024 07:00 - 41 minutes
TRAVIS CLARK has 10 World BBQ Titles to his name as Andy and Todd get caught up with his doings in Oklahoma as well as considerations in preparing for getting a run at a great summer of BBQ in your own backyard. Co-Host Todd Johns is going to wax eloquent on grilling fish, including the use of p...

Tailgate Guys BBQ Podcast artwork

Tailgate Guys BBQ Podcast, Episode 253: Sean Ludwig & Ryan Cooper

Tailgate Guys BBQ Podcast - March 27, 2024 14:44 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
Welcome to Episode 253 of the Tailgate Guys BBQ Podcast, where we’re joined by the founders of America’s foremost weekly digital news authority on live-fire cooking. It’s been a while since we visited with Ryan Cooper and Sean Ludwig from The Smoke Sheet. Their weekly newsletter that arrives in ...

MeatingPod artwork

Ep 156: QA from feedlot to school to plant

MeatingPod - March 25, 2024 05:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Quality assurance protocols don’t necessarily begin at the processing plant. The research that Dr. Ron Lemenager has conducted over his career shows that specific techniques even at the feedlot stage have a direct effect on the quality of the beef products that leave the plant. Beyond his resear...

MeatingPod artwork

Ep. 156: QA from feedlot to school to plant

MeatingPod - March 25, 2024 05:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Quality assurance protocols don’t necessarily begin at the processing plant. The research that Dr. Ron Lemenager has conducted over his career shows that specific techniques even at the feedlot stage have a direct effect on the quality of the beef products that leave the plant. Beyond his resear...

BBQ RADIO NETWORK with Andy Groneman & Todd Johns  artwork

WHAT'S NEW IN BBQ 2024 with THE BBQ LAB on BBQ RADIO NETWORK

BBQ RADIO NETWORK with Andy Groneman & Todd Johns - March 21, 2024 07:00 - 41 minutes
It's that time of year, so we visit with the guy who monitors the pulse of the BBQ industry for new products and services. David Gafford from The Barbecue Lab will be talking about all the new products unveiled at the Hearth, Patio & BBQ Expo in Nashville last month. On the docket is AI, startin...

Pederson's Farms - Powered by Protein a deep dive into Where your Food come From! artwork

#91 - Chef Brian Duffy

Pederson's Farms - Powered by Protein a deep dive into Where your Food come From! - March 20, 2024 20:51 - 17 minutes
Chef Brian Duffy, a seasoned chef with extensive experience in the culinary world, shares insights on the food industry and its various dynamics in an interview at the World Food Championship. Having graduated from culinary school in 1995, Duffy has witnessed the evolution of the industry over t...

Pederson's Farms - Powered by Protein a deep dive into Where your Food come From! artwork

#91 - Chef Brian Duffy

Pederson's Farms - Powered by Protein a deep dive into Where your Food come From! - March 20, 2024 20:51 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Chef Brian Duffy, a seasoned chef with extensive experience in the culinary world, shares insights on the food industry and its various dynamics in an interview at the World Food Championship. Having graduated from culinary school in 1995, Duffy has witnessed the evolution of the industry over t...

Tailgate Guys BBQ Podcast artwork

Tailgate Guys BBQ Podcast, Episode 252: Craig Verhage; Pirates of BBQ Bay

Tailgate Guys BBQ Podcast - March 20, 2024 20:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
Spring has officially arrived, which means there are BBQ competitions across the land each weekend from now through early November - not to mention hundreds of thousands of backyard cooks are firing up backyard smokers and grills. On Episode 252 of the Tailgate Guys BBQ Podcast, we talk to one o...

Feedstuffs in Focus artwork

Animal feed part of food waste, loss solution

Feedstuffs in Focus - March 20, 2024 20:22 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Food waste and loss are a growing concern around the world. Food left in the fields. Food not pretty enough for supermarket display cases. The list goes on and on. All too often perfectly good food ends up in landfills or is left to rot in the field. But, is there a role for animal agriculture w...

MeatingPod artwork

Ep. 155: Ambidextrous Cargill

MeatingPod - March 18, 2024 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
After almost a half-dozen years immersed in the animal side of Cargill’s protein business, Elizabeth Gutschenritter has been at the helm of the conglomerate’s alternative proteins business since 2019. In a wide-ranging interview with Alt-Meat, she discussed how Cargill balances the differing cul...