Food Comes From Farms - Lives of Sows Exposed

Erin Ehinger from Dykhuis farms in Michigan invites you to look inside a barn with pen gestation. She explains why her farm transitioned from stall housing to pens.

Erin Ehinger from Dykhuis farms in Michigan explains why individual sow housing allows her to provide the best possible care to the sows.

Watch this episode of Food Comes from Farms to learn how the corn farmers grow on their land turns into feed for hungry pigs.

Watch this episode of Food Comes from Farms to learn how family famers provide humane animal housing to protect their animals from the weather and outside predators.

Watch this episode of Food Comes from Farms to view the conditions that pigs live in on a daily basis.

Watch this episode of Food Comes from Farms to see how semen is processed in a lab before being shipped to pork producers to breed sows.

Watch this episode of Food Comes from Farms to receive a first-hand view of a feed mill. Farmers provide a healthy diet to their pigs to produce a nutritious, high-quality product for consumers.

Watch this episode of Food Comes from Farms to learn how family farmers produce safe food and safe pork by enforcing strict biosecurity measures.

Watch this episode of Food Comes from Farms to receive a first-hand look of how family farmers provide humane housing and care for male pigs called boars. Also see the steps family farmers take to ensure their safety and the boars safety when collecting semen.

Watch this episode of Food Comes from Farms to see how family farmers provide humane housing and care for piglets. Learn what happens to the piglets when the farmer weans the piglet from its mother.

Watch this episode of Food Comes from Farms to learn how family farmers provide safe and healthy food supply to their animals.

Watch Food Comes from Farms to learn how family farmers humanely raise the pork that feeds the world.