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Kyle Knauth

Kyle Knauth

Owner of Knauth Showpigs, a 200-sow show pig operation in Milford, Illinois specializing in champion genetics and high-selling livestock for national competitions.

Jul 17, 2026

25:43
So in an industry where the margins for error are very small, How how do you attribute your success when it comes to like health management and the things that you do behind the scenes? What are some of those things that it takes in order for it to work? And, you know, maybe what are just some of the hard realities of the business?
26:05
So.
26:07
When we have 40 crates here, so at any one time between May, June, July, and then October, November, December, there's 40 sows in the crates.
26:19
And I tell, whether you're an intern or full-time, I tell them if you go through the farmhouse and everything, all 40 sows or whatever there is, up to 400 babies, if everything's great and dandy, go through them again because you missed something.
26:35
Because something's wrong all the time.
26:37
Every morning, I expect something to be a baby pig to have been laid on, a pig to have stepped on, a sow to not be eating, a waterer's not... nipple water is not working or something is going wrong.
26:52
So back to the attention to detail.

13 MINS LATER

Clay ParrishSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
39:33
been great.

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