Swine health is critical to ensuring a quality, nutritious product for domestic and international consumers of US pork. While monitoring a swine herd for domestic diseases is part of a farm’s daily routine, foreign animal diseases (FADs) like African swine fever (ASF), classical swine fever (CSF) and foot and mouth disease (FMD) tend to take a back seat. Part of

With the continued transition from conventional, caged layer farms towards alternative egg production systems, veterinarians, researchers, and farmers have been heavily scrutinizing the behavioral needs of chickens in their new group-housed environments. Historically, poultry farms optimized the ability of laying hens to be efficient and prolific egg layers in multi-level battery cages – where a hen would share her small

Return on Investment (ROI) is the bane of every pork producer or pork production systems manager. And with increasing margin cuts and low markets to compete in, it’s more frustrating than ever. Improving ROI is always a priority to pork producers, however, according to Daniel Gascho, DVM (Purdue, ’17), partner in Swine Health Care, Mexico, IN, it’s not always their

Implementing biosecurity procedures can feel like a daunting task on cattle farms, but breaking the process down into more manageable steps can achieve your goals. You can always add more steps later. “A successful biosecurity plan is really about doing the little things correctly every day,” said Trey Gellert, DVM, with Four Star Veterinary Service in Chickasaw, Ohio. “Also, inspect