Farmscape for August 18, 2023
Full Interview 13:54
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Researchers with the University of Montreal are using molecules secreted by an infectious bacterial agent to develop new antiviral drugs to treat viral infections. While exploring the interactions between the...
Farmscape for August 16, 2023
Full Interview 9:10
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The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Vietnam has officially approved the domestic commercial use of two locally manufactured vaccines against African Swine Fever. The Swine Health Information Center's...
As the weather warms up, many farms start to see issues with their herd’s feed intake. Pigs are easily stressed by heat, and not eating is one of the first signs that there could be an issue.
When pigs...
Farmscape for August 10, 2023
Full Interview 11:28
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The Swine Health Information Center funded Domestic Swine Disease Surveillance Program is being expanded to include diagnostic data from the Indiana Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at Purdue University. The Domestic...
Farmscape for August 3, 2023
Full Interview 8:42
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The Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization is targeting mid-2027 for the commercial scale distribution of a vaccine that will protect cattle from Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia. The University of Saskatchewan's Vaccine...
Farmscape for July 31, 2023
Full Interview 12:08
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The Executive Director of the Swine Health Information Center says keeping transboundary diseases out of the United States is a collective effort by the travellers, the pork industry and U.S....
Hemorrhagic Bowel Syndrome, commonly called HBS, is a significant concern for pork producers. There are no signs and no real explanation. Pigs in their late finishing stages die unexpectedly after looking otherwise healthy until their loss.
These losses can have...
Functional proteins play a crucial role in enhancing swine immunity, resulting in healthier pigs from start to finish. Specifically, spray dried plasma (SDP) is a complex mixture of functional proteins that include transferrin, lysozymes, growth factors, cytokines, immunoglobulins and...
Program marks 20 years of funding research into swine health and production.
Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health announced today the 2023 award recipients for the Growing Research and New Technology for Swine (GRANTS) program. This year marks the 20th anniversary of...
The Swine Disease Reporting System (SDRS) is a tool developed by a consortium of veterinary diagnostic laboratories in cooperation with the Swine Health Information Center to share information on endemic and emerging swine diseases so veterinarians and producers can...