National Hog Farmer

National Hog Farmer 2011 Issue

From My Perspective

  • Nov. 10, 2011
    Commentary

    Words of Wisdom

    When an industry stalwart announces retirement, I sit up and take notice. Such was the case when George Foxcroft, reproductive biologist at the University of Alberta, presented his keynote address at the Al Leman Swine Conference recently...More

Swine Health

  • Nov. 10, 2011
    article

    Striking Back at PRRS

    Lantz Enterprises’ farm manager Doug Siebenahler will never forget the PRRS outbreak of 2007. Two strains of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) struck with a vengeance...More
  • Nov. 10, 2011
    article

    Taking a System PRRS Negative

    Every farm is only 250 days away from PRRS-free production,” states Joel Nerem, DVM, director of health, Pipestone (MN) Vet-erinary Clinic and Pipestone System....More
  • Nov. 10, 2011
    article

    High-Health Status the Goal of 30 pigs/sow/year

    Sixty-four-year-old pork producer Robert Dircks has striven all of his life to build a progressive hog operation that achieves top production and high herd health that makes it a joy to raise pigs in southeast Iowa...More
  • Nov. 10, 2011
    article

    Building a Sow Biosecurity Model

    After the depopulation-repopulation of his sow herd in 2003, Iowa pork producer Robert Dircks was among the naysayers who didn’t see how segregating where employees worked in his 1,000-sow, farrow-to-finish operation made much sense...More
  • Nov. 10, 2011
    article

    Filtration – the Last Step in Swine Biosecurity

    There has been a groundswell of interest in filtering swine barns to block swine diseases, most notably for keeping out porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS), but also for preventing the introduction of swine influenza virus and Mycoplasma pneumonia...More
  • Nov. 10, 2011
    article

    Managing Diarrhea in Pigs

    With the apparent increasing prevalence of large bowel diarrhea (LBD) in growing pigs over the last five years, complex questions about the cause of the syndrome have reemerged, as have measures for treatment, says James Lowe, DVM, Carthage (IL) Vet Service...More
  • Nov. 10, 2011
    article

    Is Mycoplasma suis Coming Back?

    A disease known as swine eperythrozoonosis (epe), first recognized in the 1930s and widely controlled with the use of arsanilic acid in feed up to 1986, has been largely forgotten. But there is growing concern that the disease may be a cause of sow fertility, lactation and preweaning mortality problems...More
  • Nov. 10, 2011
    article

    Protecting High-Risk Farms with Filtration

    Air filtration systems have become the final piece of the biosecurity puzzle, and are being implemented increasingly in sow farms to protect them from repeated outbreaks of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) in swine-dense regions of the United States, according to Darwin Reicks, DVM, Swine Vet Center, St. Peter, MN...More

Manure Survey

Veterinarians on Call

  • Nov. 10, 2011
    article

    Circovirus: Time For Sow Vaccination?

    Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) is the causative agent of Porcine Circovirus-Associated Disease (PCVAD). PCVAD causes significant economic losses to producers from increased mortality and culling rates to poor growth in growing pigs...More
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