For 26 years, hands-on swine necropsy training at the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory has taught vital sample gathering techniques and aligned veterinary expertise with industry needs.
In a matter of seconds, veterinary pathologist Stephanie Rossow’s knife slices through the skin of a deceased pig laid out on an examination table in the necropsy lab of the University of Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.
Continue reading “On the cutting edge of swine health”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 Science Page for this week features a study done by Courtney Archer, Storey Forster Benny Mote, Ty Schmidt, Jon Anderson, Lee Johnston, and Yuzhi Li on tail-biting behavior.
Continue reading “Differences in Growth, Tail Injury, and Immune Markers among Tail-Biting, Non-Biting, and Control Pigs with Intact Tails”The Allen D. Leman Swine Conference takes place in September 20-23, 2025 and offers a great opportunity to showcase your work to help improve the world’s pig industry. For over 50 years, the conference has brought Science-driven solutions to the complex challenges facing the swine industry. It starts with you! Share your latest findings at the 2025 Leman Swine Conference by submitting your research abstracts.
Continue reading “Submit your research abstracts to the 2025 Leman Swine Conference”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.
Today’s Science Page is a breakdown of a recent study done by Julia P. Baker, Albert Rovira, and Kimberly VanderWaal of the University of Minnesota, in which they studied PRRSV-2 re-breaks and how the virus changed over time.
Continue reading “Repeat offenders: PRRSV-2 clinical re-breaks from a whole genome perspective”