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Characterization of dead animal removal facilities, structures, and practices on sow herds; invitation to participate

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.

University of Minnesota researchers Igor Paploski, Brenna Werner, and Kimberly VanderWaal invite veterinarians and producers overseeing sow farms to enroll in a project looking at disease outbreaks among sow herd.

Disentangling transport movement patterns of swine trucks

This is a recent publication from the MSHMP team regarding transport patterns within a Midwestern swine system. The full publication is available on the journal’s website.

Objectives

This project had the following objectives:

characterizing vehicle network before and during the COVID-19 pandemic,
Understanding vehicle movement: consistency of vehicle movements over time), and time spent at each site

Morrison Swine Health Monitoring Project Incidence Year 2022 / 2023 Annual Summary

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 2022-2023 MSHMP incidence year again brought us unexpected events and chances to learn. We were able to meet these challenges because you, as an MSHMP participant, continue to share your data. We would like to provide a general update and summary of where we are at this point.

Best of Leman 2022: Mike Roof – USDA Vaccine licensing requirements and field impacts of off-label use

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.

You can find all of the presentations selected from previous conferences on the blog here.

Associations between weather events and PED

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 the MSHMP team explores the connection between weather events and porcine epidemic diarrhea virus outbreaks.