Technology plays a crucial role on swine farms, as it enables us to enhance production efficiency and manageability by providing access to diverse data and digital tools designed to improve animal management. In other words, it allows us to effectively control our processes, better utilize our resources, stay well-informed about farm activities, and even predict future events. To gain insights into this topic, I have a conversation with Bogdan Samoylenko, M.Sc., about the implementation of techn...

🇩🇪🇧🇪 The German state of Brandenburg wants to submit an application to the European Commission in Brussels so Belgium removes part of the African Swine Fever (ASF) containment zone for German pork. The idea comes in anticipation of the summer holidays and the justification is that the state is making progress in combating ASF.  

• See more about Germany here.

🐷🇷🇺 And swine as well! The Swine Health Information Center (SHIC) suggests an African Swine Fever outbreak on a commercial farm in Russia underscores the need for vigilance in sourcing feed, as it's very possible that these outbreaks are related to contaminated feed being fed to those pigs. 

🔎🌾 While the risks may be very small, if contamination through feed does happen, it can be very devastating. Now, North America doesn't have ASF, but imported products may, depending on the region of the wo...

🌐🐗 Not in a figurative way, we're being quite literal here: a new study by a Penn State-led research team has developed predictive models to help track the movement of feral hogs at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. 

• The study used GPS collars to track the movements of female feral swine within the park and design predictive models to determine the most likely places to find the animals. That's quite interesting, but we can't lose track of what our goal is: the most important part is t...

🦠 One of the greatest enemies of the swine industry today are pathogens: they result in loss of productivity, mortality, and major setbacks in our production. So is there a way to effectively control pathogens, effortlessly stimulate intestinal health, and greatly support natural body defenses to fight back against the villains? Actually, there are of two:

• FRA® Butyrin Hybrid, by Adisseo, contributes to better intestinal health and promotes a  strong intestinal barrier – it boosts the intesti...

💉🦠🐷 … this is the first time that this happens to us! Indeed, we've never been this close to getting a vaccine against African Swine Fever (ASF) that may actually work. But we'd better get used to it: two vaccines co-developed by US scientists and tested in large pilot schemes by Vietnamese companies are close to approval, global and US veterinary officials say.

• After the vaccine showed a high level of efficacy and no safety risks in trials, the next step is nationwide approval in Vietnam. Se...

💉🦠🐷 What is that we see on the horizon? Could it be a safe, long-lasting, and potentially universal vaccine against swine flu?? You're goddamn right! A successful long-term experiment with live hogs indicates Nebraska scientists may be a step closer to achieving the feat. 

• Considering the significant role swine play in the evolution and transmission of potential pandemic strains of influenza, the results aren't only important to the pork industry, but for human health as well. 

Scientists ...