Take some comfort in knowing that strict biosecurity and sanitation methods can do a good job of protecting farms from foreign animal disease when correctly implemented.
A foresight-based marketing study called Pork 2040 will investigate changing consumer attitudes and trends in developed and emerging U.S. pork export markets.
If you don’t have your premises identification number (PIN) for every location that you raise pigs yet, you need to do so if you want to be fully prepared for a foreign animal disease (FAD).
According to an international expert on African swine fever (ASF), it might pay to start paying more attention to people rather than pigs if we truly want to halt the global spread of the costly disease.
Despite many advancements in the industry’s focus on disease risk mitigation, 28 states still allow some type of garbage feeding to swine, increasing the risk of foreign animal disease (FAD) transmission.
