September 2023 – Swine in Minnesota

Prop 12 compliance – A podcast episode on early field experience

Podcasts are a perfect way to get caught up with new swine information! We are presenting you the latest episode from “At The Meeting… Honoring Dr. Bob Morrison” in collaboration with SwineCast.

With several successful California Prop 12 certifications behind her, Dr. Cara Haden from Pipestone Veterinary Services has important insights about the compliance process. She shares with the At The Meeting team how important detailed documentation is to the Prop 12 certification process.

A successful 2023 Allen D. Leman swine conference sharing practical science-driven solutions for swine veterinarians and producers!

More than 800 people gathered in St. Paul this past week to learn about the latest Science-Driven solutions for the swine industry at the 2023 Allen D. Leman swine conference. From export markets to PEDV biosecurity, from sustainability through manure management to PRRSV evolution, a wide variety of topics were explored by world-renowned experts in the swine industry.

Iowa State University student awarded 2023 Morrison Swine Innovator Prize

St. Paul, Minn.—Carly Bates, a third-year student at Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine, received the 2023 Morrison Swine Innovator Prize, an award given to veterinary students who want to specialize in swine medicine.

The award was presented on Sept. 18 at the annual Allen D. Leman Swine Conference hosted by the University of Minnesota (UMN) College of Veterinary Medicine. All North American veterinary students interested in swine health and production were eligible.

Bates was chosen for this award by a jury of three swine practitioners for her presentation, “How low should the pH go? How pH levels affect E. coli growth.”

CVM researchers awarded $800,000 USDA grant to create integrative data platform for major swine disease

A team of CVM researchers led by Kimberly VanderWaal (VPM) was recently awarded a 4-year, $800,000 Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). The study aims to create an “integrative data science” platform to predict the ability of PRRSV-2 variants to provoke an immune response and spread across farms. The platform will use interconnected machine learning tools from structural biology, computational immunology, and genomic epidemiology.

Measures of disease occurrence review

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.

The MSHMP weekly report contains the graphic representation of the occurrence and dynamics of specific swine pathogens using epidemiologic tools that measures of disease occurrence such as, prevalence, cumulative prevalence and incidence. In this science page we would like to reacquaint our audience with a few of these tools.