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.
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This presentation was given by Chad Groves of Seaboard Foods during the 2026 Allen D. Leman Swine Conference.
In today’s Science Page, Drs. Laurie Pfleiderer and Robert Desrosiers from Quebec share the findings of their case report looking at false positive results during Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae testing.
Continue reading “False detection of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae in a gilt developer unit”or nearly two years, Lucas Ferreira has visited two swine harvest plant facilities biweekly, collecting samples and studying how often market hog transportation trailers get contaminated during unloading and what risk factors are associated with it.
“We know those trailers are going to the farms and getting the pigs to bring them to facilities,” he explains. “But nobody knew if those trailers leaving the facility were contaminated, how often it was happening, or the type of factors that might be related to it. The reality is there was no data —not just in the United States, but internationally.”
Continue reading “Rising Researcher: Lucas Ferreira investigates how viruses spread during swine transport”Dr. Talita Resende, Assistant Professor and Food Animal Diagnostician at the University of Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, explains how sapovirus affects suckling and weaned pigs with diarrhea. She discusses PCR interpretation, rotavirus and E. coli coinfections, intestinal sampling, and in situ hybridization for clearer diagnostic decisions.
Continue reading “Dr. Talita Resende discusses Sapovirus in Suckling and Weaned Pigs with Diarrhea on The Swine Health Blackbelt Podcast”For the average person, packages of pork products in the grocery store meat section represent ingredients for a meal.
For the Swine Disease Eradication Center (SDEC) at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM), those products represent the culmination of years of productive partnerships between academia and the swine industry that have advanced research into eliminating deadly diseases that cost pork producers billions of dollars each year.
Continue reading “For the good of pigs and people”