Hog Health
With industry-wide sow mortality hovering around 15%, the sow herd is under intense pressure. Here’s how a shift in gilt selection criteria can transform herd performance.
Colin Johnson shares practical insights and strategies to help pork producers navigate current challenges in disease management, labor sourcing and facility transitions.
Preliminary tests on three dead wild boar piglets prompt immediate quarantine zones and spark concerns over the nation’s crucial pork export market.
Eliminating porcine epidemic diarrhea virus is only half the battle. Here’s how building a domestic elimination pathway lays the exact groundwork needed to fight foreign animal diseases, too.
A $719,415 public-private investment is funding projects to advance early detection of African swine fever, improve airborne disease filters and launch wastewater monitoring on pig farms.
Biosecurity managers say the recently launched Protocol Farm Visits app takes the guesswork out of compliance by automatically recording barn visits, managing downtime requirements and helping farms stop outbreaks before they spread.
A newly developed lipid nanoparticle platform offers a rapid, cost-effective defense against rapidly mutating cross-species flu viruses.
Funded through the Working Families Tax Cuts Act, the Feral Swine Eradication and Control Pilot Program is opening $35 million in new grants to help partners across 14 states protect American farms, livestock and natural resources.
The full restoration of market access allows a massive backlog of ‘pipeline’ products to finally reach Mexican consumers.
From the re-emergence of pseudorabies to unrelenting PRRSV activity, experts warn that “seasonal reprieves” are a thing of the past.
Despite the 2020 Phase One agreement, domestic subsidies and strict residue requirements in China continue to prevent U.S. producers from reaching their full export potential.
From new outbreaks in European commercial farms to vaccine challenges in Africa, the latest reports highlight a volatile global landscape. Biosecurity at the border has never been more critical.
The emergence of L1C.2.45 and L1A.13.49 is continuing to challenge swine health and driving regional outbreaks, particularly in North Carolina and the Midwest.
A new outbreak in a German wild boar near the Polish border and large-scale culling in Serbia have sparked fresh concerns over the virus’s spread across Europe.
The Swine Health Information Center has appointed Michigan producer Joe Dykhuis as president and welcomed Iowa producer Trish Cook to its board to help lead the organization’s mission of disease preparedness and swine health research.
As New World screwworm spreads across the southern U.S., swine producers must shift from prevention to active preparedness by implementing rigorous wound surveillance and rapid reporting protocols to protect their herds and the broader industry.
Data-driven early warning systems are turning two weeks of lead time into higher profitability and lower mortality.
With African swine fever and foot-and-mouth disease on the move, real-time situational awareness is the critical factor in defending U.S. pork production.
After leading the industry through a global pandemic, this microbiologist-turned-farmer shares why ‘Plan B’ and a refusal to settle are the keys to surviving the next black swan event.
Heat stress is a multimillion-dollar problem for all stages of pork production. Here are ways to maximize reproductive performance during periods of seasonal infertility.
Four experts identify the emerging economic and geopolitical trends that are quietly reshaping the global protein landscape.
Top pork producers are staying ahead of the curve by adopting a proactive, non-emotional approach to risk management that extends from biosecurity protocols to long-term capital investments.
A unique partnership between MSU, the state, and producers is providing the science needed to navigate group housing laws, disease threats, and emergency response.
Ag groups urge the Ohio Supreme Court to reinstate a law banning feral boar hunting and garbage feeding to safeguard the state’s $3.5 billion swine market.
The second round of PRV testing is complete. Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig confirms all farms have been released from quarantine.
Mexico suspends most live animal imports from the U.S. to protect domestic herds following confirmed cases of New World screwworm in Texas and New Mexico.
National Pork Board’s Chief Veterinarian outlines critical biosecurity measures and clinical signs to watch for as this parasitic fly expands its range. As one veterinarian said, “The best thing you can put on your animals now is your eyeballs.”