😷 Wouldn't you agree? If there’s one thing that foreign animal disease (FAD) outbreaks have taught us is how much truth there is to that sentence… After all, our focus has shifted from diagnosis and treatment to prevention and control.

     • Keeping pathogens at bay is the first step to an effective on-farm biosecurity program, and an often-overlooked aspect of planning is the role of feed and feed ingredients – a proven transmission route for diseases...

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👩‍💻 Workforce is running short… And in times of labor shortage, the expectation is that the adoption of technology in livestock operations will accelerate.

     •  The question of whether technology is the answer for improved animal care was addressed at the Saskatchewan Pork Industry Symposium 2022, in Saskatoon. 

🌎Around the world, there’s a real divide between newer and older facilities that depends on labor availability, resources, and infrastructure. But generally, farms are becoming quit...

🐷 How do you like your tomatoes? Raw, stuffed, squashed, in jam, or as sauce? Whatever your taste is, just be sure to share them with your swine production… Ohio State researchers have found that two weeks of eating a diet heavy in tomatoes increased the diversity of microbe species in the guts of pigs, and the concentrations of two types of bacteria common in the mammal microbiome shifted to a more favorable profile. 

    • Awesome, right? And not only for your production – for you too! The re...

🏥 Let’s talk about a critical topic in the swine industry: health. But not the swine’s, yours! Did you hear that right? Do you hear us?? The wellbeing of everyone involved in a farm operation is key – and hearing loss is a huge concern. It can – thankfully – be prevented, however, and here’s how…  

    • The problem naturally comes with age, that much is true, but over time, cumulative hearing loss can be caused by exposure to a loud environment – common in agriculture, like working 40-50 years...

🚫 Too little swine for too much country… The Serbian population of finishers dropped to 2.5 million, which is the same as to say that the country is no longer meeting its demand for pork. Over the past 3 decades, the number of finishers in the country has been cut nearly to half.

    •  Imports are likely to exceed 10% of market sales this year, and Serbian pig farmers are admittedly losing the competition against farmers in the EU – EU production is much cheaper, because GM cereals are prohibi...

🐷 As part of an effort to attract more meat suppliers to the Mexican market, the government of Mexico is allowing limited access for Brazilian pork. And by limited, we mean that the Brazilian products must come from the state of Santa Catarina, specifically – a state free of foot and mouth disease (FMD) and where the plants approved for export are located.  

     • The imported goods must go directly into further processing upon arrival.  

🐔 If we said that was a surprise, we’d be lying… Mexic...

🇬🇧 UK exports of pork totalled an increase of 4% in September, when compared to the previous month, and of 9%, when compared to last year. What does that mean? Well, it means a 7% increase year on year, but that the volumes remain below those from before the pandemic.

     • Volumes to China, the UK’s greatest importer, continue to decline as their domestic production recovers from ASF. The loss is counteracted by the EU, however, which continues to increase volumes. As for the rest of the worl...