December 2024 – Page 2 – Swine in Minnesota

Rearing pigs with play opportunities: The effects on disease resilience in pigs experimentally inoculated with PRRSV

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.

In today’s Science Page Karolína Steinerová, John Harding, Sarah Parker, Heather Wilson, Arthur Nery Finatto and Yolande Seddon take a look at the connection between rearing pigs with play opportunities and infection resilience.

Science-Based Biosecurity Sustainably Prevents PRRSv Infection and Improves Productivity in Swine Breeding Herds

On this first Tuesday of December, we are featuring a new paper from the MSHMP team in collaboration with Pipestone research, published in the journal Animals and available in open-access. This article, a follow-up from a previous publication, compares key performance indicators between farms implementing Next Generation Biosecurity (NGB) or not. Refer back to the first publication for a description of NGB which encompasses measures to control four routes of disease transmission (direct, mechanical, feed, and aerosol) and a retrospective analysis of PRRSv incidence rates for 2 years.