Trey Kellner, a swine nutritionist with AMVC joins us with tips on feed delivery and biosecurity at the finisher.

Formulating the proper diets to deliver optimal performance at a competitive price is the goal of most swine nutritionists. Creating that feeding program requires a clear understanding of the ...

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Dr. Amanda Anderson Reever, a veterinarian with Suidae Health and Production, walks us through how to extract fluids from tongue tips for diagnostic testing. She addresses how this technique has ...

With support from USDA, the Beef Checkoff Program and the United Soybean Board. U.S. beef and pork had a strong presence at the Yakiniku Business Fair, one of the most important annual trade shows for ...

Last month when a small homestead farm in Oregon broke with the first porcine case of H5N1, many lessons were learned when dealing with the “transitional pigs,” says Ryan Scholz. While Oregon is not ...

The swine industry is constantly striving to improve pork production, with disease detection and surveillance being crucial areas of focus. An efficient surveillance approach that has gained ...

Genetics of wean-to-finish survival and throughput Industry needs a better understanding of litter characteristics that influence post-weaning survival.

Recommendation: Support community/technical colleges in starting butcher and meat cutting courses and technical assistance programs, such as USDA’s Meat and Poultry Processing Capacity-Technical ...

Less sperm per dose means using the best boars for faster genetic progress, but how low can we go without compromising sow performance? In our latest research, we explore lowering semen concentrations ...

DIY feed auger repairs Do your own feed auger repairs with this series of easy-to-follow instructional videos from Hog Slat.

There are several well-established population-based sample types, such as processing fluids, family oral fluids and tongue tip fluids to monitor porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus ...