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...
PRRS Vaccine Improves Performance
In a three-year research project in a large Nebraska swine operation, modified-live PRRS (porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome) virus vaccine...
Comparing Circovirus Vaccine Efficacy
Most hog operations with porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) also have a multitude of co-infections, namely porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome...
Fighting PRRS Still Causes Plenty of Pain
A PRRS break and high production costs can destroy an operation. I have been in veterinary practice more than 20 years. I saw my first case of porcine...
Preparing for FMD
Getting the word out about foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) will help the United States better prepare for the potential disease disaster. Even with the best...
The Top 10 Questions of Porcine Cirovirus
Despite the appreciable gains that circovirus vaccines have made in controlling porcine circovirus-associated disease (PCVAD), 10 major questions need...
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...
