Assessing the Full Impact of Attrition
Work on reducing the incidence of culls, lights and deads. The one production number that any wean-to-finish or finisher manager easily collects is the...
Hog Producers Sink Into More Red Ink
H1N1 flu crisis and rising feed prices have combined to sink the pork industry in red ink, dating back to the fall of 2007...
Salmonella Piglet Vaccine Gains New Label Approval
A new label approval for an oral or intranasal vaccine, Salmo Shield Live, has cut the time that pork producers can immunize pigs for salmonella from 3 weeks of age...
Just What We Didn't Need
Adding insult to injury, the outbreak of H1N1 Influenza A virus has left the U.S. pork industry reeling from yet another exaggerated media frenzy...
Eating Our Way To Flu Resistance
A research team at Iowa State University (ISU) is putting flu vaccines into the genetic makeup of corn, which could mean pigs and humans get a flu vaccination simply by eating corn or corn products...
Meat Group Stresses Pork Is Part of Healthy Diet
“Although news of influenza infections in people in Mexico, the United States and a handful of other countries is unsettling, the fact remains: U.S. pork is safe,” declares American Meat Institute (AMI) President J. Patrick Boyle. “Consuming pork has not been ...
President Obama Says Swine Flu Spread Not Yet ‘Cause for Alarm’
President Barack Obama said today that the threat of swine flu spreading is a cause for concern but “not a cause for alarm” as the United States works to closely monitor borders to contain it....
CDC: Pork Safe to Eat, Hogs Not Source of Swine Flu Outbreak
An outbreak of a hybrid form of swine influenza has not affected the safety of pork, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta....
Surveillance Program Could Provide Dual Protection Against Flu Viruses
A federal pilot swine influenza virus (SIV) surveillance program could result in improvements in vaccines for swine and development of vaccine seed strains for humans....
Unique Sow Parity Segregation Plan Bolsters Herd Health
Coupled with sow herd reduction, efforts guide consolidation and resource conservation for this Michigan pork producer. In five short years, Bob Dykhuis...
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