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Keeping sow mortality rates in check is not only critical to a farm’s productivity and cost structure, it’s key to ensuring the public’s trust in the care and well-being of food-production animals. Yet in recent years, the US...
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The farrowing room is a demanding place — one that needs to accommodate the divergent needs of a 500+-pound sow and her 10, 15 or 20 piglets weighing anywhere from 1.5 to 3 pounds.
Unquestionably, nothing is more vulnerable on...
Farmscape for May 26, 2021
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The Executive Director of the Swine Health Information Center suggests there's a need to expand African Swine Fever virus detection and isolation to keep on top of the genetic diversity of...
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In spite of advanced biosecurity protocols, the porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) continues to plague global pork producers with unpredictable, seasonal outbreaks. In the US, it ranks as the pork industry’s most costly disease at $1...
Farmscape for May 20, 2021
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The Canada West Swine Health Intelligence Network is advising pork producers that early cross fostering of newborn piglets can help reduce their potential exposure to the bacteria responsible for Greasy Pig...
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Establishing effective internal biosecurity protocols is critical to breaking the circular spread of influenza and other pathogens between sow farms and growing sites, according to Montserrat Torremorell, DVM, PhD, University of Minnesota.
While external biosecurity aims to prevent the...
Farmscape for May 19, 2021
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The Canada West Swine Health Intelligence Network is warning pork producers of the risks posed by a new strain of Streptococcus zooepidemicus. The Canada West Swine Health Intelligence Network Swine Health...
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Introduction
When and How Does Heat Stress Occur?
Signs of Heat...
Source: FAO
Overview
Hazard: African swine fever (ASF) is a viral disease affecting pigs and wild boar with up to 100% case fatality rate.
ASF reported administrative areas since August 2018:
China: Anhui, Heilongjiang, Henan, Jilin, Liaoning, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanxi, Yunnan, Hunan, Guizhou,...
APC is pleased to share the latest conclusion from EFSA regarding the risk of transmission of ASFV throughout matrices and feed ingredients. In this risk assessment, they
consider that blood products have little risk of ASFV transmission.
Enclosed are the conclusions...
