Month: April 2020

Best of Leman 2019 #4: J. Hoek and V. Duttlinger – How to make pig farms an irresistible place to work?

Labor continues to be a challenge in the swine industry. In the fourth iteration of our Best of Leman 2019 series, Jon Hoek and Valerie Duttlinger share how we can make pig farms better work places and why this is a worthwhile investment.

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Effects of reduced nocturnal temperature on pig performance and energy consumption in swine nursery rooms

The swine extension team at the University of Minnesota has a podcast available through the Apple platform. If you have additional free time these days, you may want to check their latest episode on nursery temperature settings and their impact on pig performances!

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Review of Chart 3: PRRS incidence rate by status at break

Key Points

  • Incidence rate takes into account the time a farm is at risk for disease.
  • Chart 3 incidence rate has replaced incidence risk by status which did not account for a farm’s contributed time at risk.
  • While incidence rate is less visually intuitive, it more accurately reflects PRRS outbreak rate by status.
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