Farmscape for May 11, 2022
Full Interview 15:48
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The Associate Director of the Swine Health Information Center suggests increased incidents of PRRS and PED over the past month could be due to the sharing of staff among production...
Farmscape for May 9, 2022
Full Interview 7:33
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The Swine Health Information Center initiated Domestic Swine Disease Reporting System has once again been expanded, this time to include reporting on porcine circovirus type 2. The Swine Health Information...
Preliminary examination suggests that oral, nasal, rectal and vaginal microbiomes were distinctly different in sows from the two research farm locations.
By Lauren Anderson and Jon Holt, North Carolina State University
Knowledge and understanding of the swine microbiome can provide insights...
Farmscape for May 5, 2022
Full Interview 14:20
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The Swine Health Information Center is applauding U.S. Customs and Border Protection plans to expand its reporting of efforts to keep African Swine Fever out of North America. African Swine...
Quick facts
Pork producers shouldn’t overlook the effects of heat stress. Heat stress causes
Lower feed intake in grow-finish pigs during the summer.
Harmful effects in the sow herd during breeding, gestation and lactation.
Lasting harmful effects in offspring of...
Farmscape for May 3, 2022
Full Interview 7:21
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The Western College of Veterinary Medicine and the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization are working to help pork producers around the world address Lawsonia intracellularis, one of the pork sector's...
Farmscape for May 3, 2022
Full Interview 7:21
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The Western College of Veterinary Medicine and the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization are working to help pork producers around the world address Lawsonia intracellularis, one of the pork sector's...
A peer reviewed article by University of Bologna establishes bacillus-based probiotics as a promising strategy to help tackle the increasing problem of antibiotic resistance, while also reducing the incidence of post-weaning diarrhea in pigs by 30% and mortality in...
Farmscape for April 29, 2022
Full Interview 10:35
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An Associate Professor with the Western College of Veterinary Medicine says humans present the greater risk of transmitting avian influenza than do pigs. Last week the provincial government reported that...
Farmscape for April 26, 2022
Full Interview 12:11
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Research conducted on behalf of Swine Innovation Porc indicates the naturally occurring bacteria in the gut of the pig play a role in health and productivity. The Universities of Alberta,...