Swine in Minnesota

DVM Students: Start planning now to apply for this year’s Morrison Swine Innovator Prize!

Veterinary students: Are you shadowing a swine practitioner this summer or have you been involved in an interesting clinical case investigation? Did you work on your veterinary skills by designing a differential diagnosis list or working on a treatment plan? Did you investigate a problem by analyzing production records? Share your work at the Allen D. Leman Swine Conference to win the Morrison Swine Innovator Prize!

Attending the Leman Conference is a great opportunity for veterinary students who want to network with industry leaders. Submissions to enter in the selection to present at the DVM student session at the Leman Conference should be uploaded at z.umn.edu/MSIP by the end of the day August 15th.

Phylogenetic Lineages of Canadian PRRSV-2 Reveal Transboundary Spread and Two Novel Sub-Lineages

Today we are sharing a recent publication from the VanderWaal lab looking at PRRSV sequences from Canada. The full publication is available in open access on the journal Pathogens’ website.

Celebrating the 100th SHIC Global Swine Disease Monitoring Report in April!

The first Global Disease Monitoring Report (GDMR) was published in November 2017 to provide US pork producers with a clear overview of the global situation of transboundary swine diseases and support informed decision-making.

At the time, access to reliable and timely information was a major challenge as many outbreak reports were scattered across local-language sources, difficult to locate, time-consuming to verify, and often delayed or limited in detail in official reporting systems such as WOAH.

Best of Leman: Mark Schwartz – Airborne biosecurity: Comparison of air filtration and an electrostatic precipitator technology

This is our most popular series on the blog. Once a month, we are sharing with you a presentation given at the Allen D. Leman swine conference, on topics that the swine group found interesting, innovative or that lead to great discussions.

Want more? Find previous presentations in our Best of Leman archives.

This presentation was given by Mark Schwartz of the University of Minnesota and Schwartz Farms during the 2025 Allen D. Leman Swine Conference.

Assessment of PEDV Trailer Contamination at the Harvest Facility

This is our Friday rubric: every week a new Science Page from the Bob Morrison’s Swine Health Monitoring Project. The previous editions of the science page are available on our website.

Researchers Lucas Ferreira, Mark Schwartz, Marie Culhane, and Cesar A Corzo from the University of Minnesota bring us today’s Science Page, looking at PEDv contamination of trailers at the slaughter house.