Impact of Salmonella From Farm to Fork
Salmonella remains a pervasive problem that survives well in the environment. Salmonella bacteria has been known to exist for over 100 years, associated...
Porcine Respiratory Disease Complex Resurfaces
Porcine respiratory disease complex (PRDC) stages return as finishing pig foe. About three years ago, veterinarians coined the acronym PCVAD (porcine...
Kansas Site Selected for Federal Disease Laboratory
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has recommended Kansas State University at Manhattan as the site of a $451 million lab designed to study foreign animal diseases....
Selected Protocols Ensure Sow, Pig Health
In most farrowing operations, the number of pigs weaned per litter is impacted more by preweaning mortality than by the number of pigs born alive. Significant...
Learning Biosecurity's Value The Hard Way
Iowa producer takes a disease hit when basic transportation biosecurity practices are violated. Craig Rowles, DVM, closely scrutinizes extra costs at...
Practical Steps to Truck Biosecurity
Keeping the transport-monitoring program simple and practical, yet comprehensive, makes biosecurity principles more workable. When Ron White, DVM, went...
Researchers Scramble to Solve Failure to Thrive Syndrome
Teams around the United States are hard at work trying to decipher why healthy-looking nursery pigs are starving out. A puzzling pig-wasting problem spreading...
Prioritize Biosecurity
If you question the value of transportation biosecurity in protecting your hog enterprise, then listen to what agricultural economist Steve Meyer had...
Neonatal Scours Test Producers' Patience
Across the industry, the issue of neonatal diarrhea does not raise concerns to the level of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome or circovirus....
Building Functional Biosecurity Barriers
Pork producers and veterinarians have eliminated many diseases, but now it's time to build a workable biosecurity program to upgrade animal health. Many...
