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The technological invention that could save millions of piglets every year

You may or may not know this, but in the first three days of a piglet’s life, one of the biggest threats to its survival is its own mother. Around 5% of piglets that are born every year are accidentally crushed every year by their mother. That’s around 6 …
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Iowa student’s invention helps save lives of piglets

DES MOINES (AP) — The story of how an Iowa college student came to invent life-saving wearable technology for pigs sounds a bit like an infomercial. Matthew Rooda was working in a massive swine-raising operation while going to school and grew …
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