Protect Yourself this Flu Season
The National Pork Board is urging pork producers, farm workers, veterinarians and others who have contact with pigs to get a flu shot...
Swine Flu An Ongoing Problem
Evolution ensures survival for this multi-species virus. Swine Influenza Virus (SIV) continues to evolve. During the last decade, many strains commingled...
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...
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...
Circovirus Vaccines Score Well
Swine veterinarian Steve Henry outlines the growing relevance of the three federally licensed porcine circovirus vaccines. As one of the leaders of the...
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