Category Archives: Animal Health

The Swine Health Information Center’s (SHIC) July Domestic Swine Disease Monitoring Report is available.

Meet Lindsey Huntress Britton, our latest addition to Farm Journal’s PORK’s Up & Coming Leaders feature. We are showcasing some of the fresh, new voices of the pork industry who combine innovative thought and work ethic with scientific savvy and a passion to make a difference.

A pilot project funded by the Swine Health Information Center Wean-to-Harvest Biosecurity Research Program, in partnership with the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research and Pork Checkoff, aimed to address the challenge of documenting truck washes between visits to slaughterhouses and return to swine barns, a critical aspect of market haul sanitation in the swine industry. Led by Drs. Daniel Linhares and Edison Magalhães of Iowa State University, the study updated the online inventory of truck washes in the Midwest and assessed three different methods for automatically recording truck wash events and market pig deliveries at packing plants. To enable producers to verify trailer cleanliness, automated reports were produced on the status of each trailer to identify non-compliance, such as those trailers not washed between packing plant loads.

‘Tis the season for corndogs, concerts, and commingling. Fair season gives us an opportunity to remind exhibitors and event organizers of ways to keep animals and people healthy.

A study funded through the Swine Health Information Center Wean-to-Harvest Biosecurity Research Program, in partnership with the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) and Pork Checkoff, recently evaluated caretaker motivation related to compliance with biosecurity behaviors Led by Dr. Michael Chetta of Talent Metrics Consulting, an exploratory study was conducted to establish a baseline for worker motivation and identify the primary factors within the industry that could be impacting biosecurity compliance.

Free, comprehensive resource offers step-by-step guidance for M. hyopneumoniae eradication

Although influenza and E.coli have been a hot topic of conversation in many circles lately, these four veterinarians agree that porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) continues to cause the greatest problems for pork producers in their area. They discuss a variety of topics from the biggest surprises from a health perspective in 2024 to what producers should do to keep disease pressure down this year.

When porcine epidemic diarrhea virus struck U.S. pig herds in 2013, the Iowa State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory – which carries the nation’s largest swine caseload – scrambled to design a high-capacity test to keep up with the outbreak.

NARMS whole-genome sequencing (WGS) analysis indicates an increase in multidrug-resistant (MDR) strains of Salmonella I 4,[5],12:i:- (i.e., monophasic Salmonella serovar Typhimurium) in the United States.

The Swine Health Information Center’s (SHIC) June Domestic Swine Disease Monitoring Report is available.