We all know that PRRSV has been a big concern shared by many swine producers and veterinarians across the US. It is therefore important to determine effectively the PRRSV status of the pig population, especially at weaning age. In today's episode, I talk with Dr. Onyekachukwu Henry Osemeke about how family oral fluids (FOFs) can be used to determine PRRSV status of weaning age pigs.
Meet the guest:
Dr. Onyekachukwu Henry Osemeke obtained his DVM in 2014 from Ahmadu Bello University, Zari...
A Russian, a Brazilian and a Chilean pig walk into a bar… Bad joke? The situation in Russia with pork imports and the national production is bad, too. The country is in for a problem of oversupply in the pork market.
- African Swine Fever (ASF) and avian influenza (AI) outbreaks in Russia have made things difficult for the meat production in the country and sent prices to the stratosphere, so the government has set a duty-free quota over pork imports to try and compensate for that on the domest...
Is that so? Well, according to some Agricultural groups and House legislators, it is! And they’re urging the approval of the Farm Workforce Modernization Act.
- Now what's that? Simply enough, it’s a House-approved bill for immigrant agricultural workers in the U.S. to earn legal status through continued agricultural employment and contribution to the American agricultural economy.
- And how’s that a salvation? It gives flexibility to employers and critical protection to workers, so it ends up e ...
The porcine circovirus Type 2 has been increasingly detected in the U.S. and captured the attention of the Swine Health Information Center.
- SHIC Associate Director Dr. Megan Niederwerder says this rise needs to be on everyone’s radar.
- The increase is evident specifically in the wean-to-market population.
This could all be tied to reactions to vaccines, a new genotype of the virus, and/or a more virulent strain.
After the Iowa State University Veterinary Diagnostic Lab identified porcine morbillivirus in fetal tissues, an investigation to determine if the virus was present in the U.S. swine population was initiated.
But the results by the Swine Health Information Center have determined that porcine morbillivirus does not present a significant risk to the U.S. swine herd and isn’t an emerging disease in the country.
After testing samples from all over the country over the last couple of years, the res...
The USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is updating the Swine Hemorrhagic Fevers: African and Classical Swine Fevers Integrated Surveillance Plan to feature recent additional measures taken after ASF was detected in the Western Hemisphere.
- The updates include additional efforts after ASF was detected in Haiti and the Dominican Republic (which got everyone concerned because of its proximity to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands), updated case definitions, whole blood...
Other than being a classic movie by Hitchcock, the birds will also be a thing for the global meat market. Worldwide meat exports are expected to grow 3% by 2031, and most of them will be poultry and are expected to make up two-thirds of the additional meat imports into Africa.
- In the African continent, consumption will outgrow the expansion of domestic production.
The two largest meat exporting countries, Brazil and the U.S., are expected to increase to around 40% of these exports worldwid...