Here’s a look at new products and innovations in the pork industry.
Veterinary Pharmaceutical Solutions Novel Products Succeed in Sow Wound Research Trial
Veterinary Pharmaceutical Solutions launched Mendicin and Healicin ABF, two products that have shown improvement in wound scores in recent research studies. Mendicin is a compounded patent-pending prescription antibiotic ointment containing Bacitracin and Neomycin. Healicin is a non-antibiotic spray available without a veterinarian’s prescription.
“This is an example of VPS providing solutions to challenges heard directly from our customers on farm,” Keith Bretey, technical services manager at Veterinary Pharmaceutical Solutions, said in a release. “We developed Mendicin and Healicin because customers weren’t seeing enough improvement with common treatments.”
Recent product studies evaluated the impact of shoulder sore treatments in sows. The Mendicin- and Healicin-treated wounds were the only products with decreased surface area over the first seven and full 14 days. Within the first seven days, both products were statistically superior for wound size reduction compared to the industry-standard iodine and lidocaine treatment, the company said.
Mendicin and Healicin contain dye which increases the visibility of treatments for easier identification during management and audits, the company explained. They also feature a coating effect that optimizes coverage. Healicin includes a deterrent, as the spray is also used in finishing barns to address tail-biting cases.
Learn more at VeterinaryPharmaceuticalSolutions.com.
BinSentry Introduces Critical Event Management Software Add-On
BinSentry recently announced Critical Event Management (CEM) – a new software add-on to their leading feed inventory management platform.
“Out-of-feed-events negatively impact the health and performance of swine and poultry — and squeeze producers’ already-thin profit margins. But these outages often go undetected and untracked,” the company said in a release.
Unknown to most producers, 80% of out of feed outage hours are caused by bin slide management errors, as opposed to running out of feed on site. These insights, discovered by the BinSentry platform that monitors tens of thousands of feed bins daily, create new urgency around the need to manage feed bins more effectively, the release said.
BinSentry uses AI to enhance process control, prevent waste, lower transportation costs, protect workers, and improve animal health and performance, Elizabeth Willard, BinSentry director of product, said in a release.
CEM is a new BinSentry add-on feature that allows producers and mill operators to see and manage slide management issues at any time, from anywhere. The CEM software add-on gives customers real-time alerts and a direct line to their on-site teams so they can respond immediately to out-of-feed events or other feed issues in facilities, and it does it through SMS text, explains Willard. There is no need for apps to be downloaded on employee phones, and almost zero training required.
In addition to real-time alerts via SMS text, CEM tracks event time, duration and whether employees have responded to the event.
Equipped with CEM and BinSentry’s Out-of-Feed Insights reporting dashboard, users can track out-of-feed events over time and compare across farms. This allows producers to make data-based decisions about feed management throughout their operations that will:
• improve feed conversion ratios (FCR) by up to 10 basis points
• avoid emergency feed deliveries
• ensure their animals get to market on time and in prime condition.
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