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Swine virus confirmed in Iowa, Indiana hog herds
Farms in two of the nation's leading pork producing states have tested positive for the potentially fatal porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), U.S. pork industry veterinarian official said Monday.
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USDA says has detected virus in Iowa hog population
USDA's National Veterinary Services Laboratories has detected porcine epidemic diarrhea (PEDV), a virus associated with outbreaks of diarrhea and vomiting, in the Iowa hog population, a USDA spokesman said on Friday.
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Brumm Speaks Out: The four-ton sow
We now have production systems talking about the four-ton sow: 8,000 pounds of live weight sales per inventoried female. This goal is similar to the 30-pig goal of a few years ago, which was thought to be impossible.
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Hurd responds to anti-antibiotic editorial
Scott Hurd, DVM, PhD, Iowa State University, shares this letter-to-the-editor he wrote to the Des Moines Register in response to its editorial on food-animal use of antibiotics.
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It’s not all ‘Bugs and Drugs’
Remember the “disease triad” during on-farm troubleshooting of non-infectious causes of disease.
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