Swine Health Ontario is spearheading the Ontario initiative to improve disease prevention, detection, response, containment and elimination, leading to better decisions and added value at the farm and industry levels.
After years of decline, renewed focus on local pork production highlights the role of infrastructure, food security, and island resilience For decades, pork has been a cultural staple across Hawaiʻi — central to family gatherings, community celebrations, and traditional cuisine. Yet today, very little of the pork consumed on the islands is actually produced there. […]
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Reinvesting in Your Operation: Maximizing ROI In this episode of the SwineTime podcast, host Dr. Spencer Wayne sits down with Damon Vander Maten, Director of FarmBooks at Pipestone, to dig into one of the biggest questions farm families face: When is the right time to reinvest in your farm assets? Damon brings extensive experience analyzing […]
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Veteran producer says credibility, not compliance, will define the future of pork production After four decades of building and managing gestation-crate systems, Brent Hershey never expected to become one of the industry’s most candid voices on sow housing reform. But today, Hershey believes the pork industry has reached a moment it can no longer avoid. […]
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Leaders of the U.S. House Agriculture Committee are signaling that additional farm aid may be needed beyond the recently announced Farmer Bridge Assistance Program, raising the prospect of at least $10 billion more in congressional support for U.S. producers. According to reporting from Agri-Pulse, Glenn Thompson, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, said the $12 […]
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NFACC outlines focus areas guiding the next update of Canada’s Pig Code of Practice Committees tasked with updating Canada’s Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Pigs have identified five priority welfare issues that will shape the scientific review and future revisions to the code. According to a December update from the National […]
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Decision allows pre-outbreak processed and chilled product to move, easing trade pressure while containment continues Japan has agreed to accept imports of Spanish pork originating within an African swine fever (ASF) containment zone near Barcelona, provided the product was processed and refrigerated before the outbreak was detected, according to international reports. The decision, first reported […]
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Free January meetings aim to strengthen producer connections, share resources, and kick off 2026 with conversation and collaboration The New York Pork Producers (NYPP) are starting the new year with a fresh, grassroots-focused initiative designed to bring pork producers together around the table. The Pork Producers Connect Breakfast Series, launching in January 2026, is a […]
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Keeping livestock healthy can feel like a delicate balancing act, and winter weather makes that even harder. Cold fronts, sudden temperature swings, and damp conditions can weaken animals’ immune systems, making them more vulnerable to respiratory illnesses like pneumonia. Dr. Kevin Washburn, a professor at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, […]
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Shipman, G., J. Perez-Palencia, J. Hong, Y. Niu, A. Rogiewicz, R. Patterson and C. Levesque The utilization of exogenous fiber-degrading enzymes in commercial swine diets is a strategy to increase the nutrient and energy density of poorly digestible ingredients. In a prior set of studies, dietary multienzyme blend (MEblend) supplementation increased the apparent total tract […]
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Abstract Background Boar semen quality emphasizes three major criteria: sperm concentration, motility, and morphology. Methods to analyze concentration and motility quickly and objectively readily exist, but few exist for analyzing morphology outside of subjective manual counting. Other vital factors for fertilization, like acrosome health, lack efficient detection methods due to limitations in detection by the […]
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