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New SIU Swine Center manager focuses on the value of pigs

JASON FRANCHUK SIU Media Services CARBONDALE — Kathryn Prus, the new manager of Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Swine Center, quickly embraced a demanding part of her job last summer: spending 24/7 around pigs, needing a blanket for herself, while the expanding sounder of pigs bore offspring over a span of a few days. “I slept with the baby pigs at the farrowing barn,” Prus said. “The sow has to be checked every 30 minutes, and it’s amazing how fast there can be complications. I eventually got to the point where I just knew I wasn’t going to sleep.” Prus’ arrival is part of SIU’s research into raising swine. Pigs are big business throughout the state as a food source, but they’re also valued for much more.

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