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Nursing sow with piglets
Date: 06 May 2019
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Student research leads to Gloucester Old Spots pig breeding program

As many of you may know,  one of our recent graduates created a Gloucester Old Spots pig breeding program here at Hampshire College.  For her Division III project, April Nugent conducted research on the nutritional and environmental impacts of raising breeding swine on pasture vs. woodlots. We thought you might be interested learning the results of her research, which can be found here: https://drive.google.com/a/ham
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red calf in straw
Date: 29 Jan 2019
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Update from the farm

I want to start off this blog post by acknowledging that there has been a lot of uncertainty and anxiety at Hampshire College in the last couple of weeks, due to the recent announcement about some potential future pathways for Hampshire as an institution, including seeking a strategic partner and perhaps not admitting an incoming fall class. While we are heartened that the broader community has applauded the courage
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Sow in straw hat by waterer
Date: 15 Aug 2017
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Researching and Raising Gloucestershire Old Spots

As promised in the previous post, we wanted to provide you with more details on the Gloucestershire Old Spot breeding program, a student-run project by April Nugent, 15F, funded by the Coppinger Research Grant. This study involves breeding heritage pigs in two separate environments (pasture and woodlot) and then comparing the pigs raised on pasture with the pigs raised on woodlot, with the goal of providing baseline
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