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How Will You Feed Your Herd In 2008

Who would have expected the conditions we’ve seen in 2007 and 2008? Milk prices exceeded $25/cwt. Corn and soybean prices reached record or near record highs and we experienced a drought which lead to depressed forage yields and reduced forage quality.

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Season 6, Episode 3: Manure Handling Connections Between PRRSV and PEDV

Video: Season 6, Episode 3: Manure Handling Connections Between PRRSV and PEDV

Biosecurity is vital to any swine operation, and manure handling can pose serious potential risks. Research from Ana Paula Serafini Poeta Silva, a research scientist from the College of Veterinary Medicine at Iowa State University, studied the association between manure management practices and disease outbreaks, Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV) and Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDV). On today’s episode, she highlights the analysis on improving pumping procedures and which disease showed a stronger association in wean-to-market pigs