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Have you addressed vehicle biosecurity? If you answered “no,” you may discover how easily cross-contamination can occur with transportation. Dr. Nick Wagner, DVM, discusses vehicle biosecurity dos and don’ts.

Restaurants in China look for alternatives as pork, the country’s most popular meat, becomes unaffordable.

No one says managing weaned pig startups is easy. A newly weaned pig has its share of challenges: maternal separation, transportation, commingling, transitioning diet, vaccination and environmental changes.

Missouri pig farmer Kylie Epperson says she discovered her voice in agriculture after a fire destroyed their sow farm in 2018. But it certainly wasn’t the path she expected.

President Donald Trump said the U.S. and China reached a “phase one” agreement Friday to broker a truce in the trade war.

There are multiple ways to generate chlorine dioxide for water disinfection on farms. All of them CAN work, but the metering pump systems are the easiest, most cost-effective, versatile and safest options on the market.

Utilizing the original Spring Lake Pork foundation provided many benefits as the Epperson family rebuilt their 5,000-head sow farm after a devastating fire in May 2018 destroyed the entire farm and killed 18,000 pigs.

Is your farm as biosecure as possible? If you answered “no,” you may discover the costly consequences of a disease break. Joe Connor, DVM, chairman of the Carthage System, discusses biosecurity do’s and don’ts.

Defining the water requirement of the pig is challenging because intake can be affected by metabolic, physiological and behavioral factors. Research is limited, but what do we know right now?