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Morrison Swine Health Monitoring Project Launches New Wesbsite

A newly launched website offers pork producers and pork sector stakeholders direct access to data gathered through the University of Minnesota’s Morrison Swine Health Monitoring Project. The Swine Health Information Center funded Morrison Swine Health Monitoring Project, which monitors trends in pathogen incidence and prevalence, has launched a new website which optimizes the project’s ability to share information. Swine Health Information Center Associate Director Dr. Megan Niederwerder says this is the largest voluntary swine health project in the U.S.

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In this episode of The Swine Health Blackbelt Podcast, Dr. Evan Grusenmeyer from the University of Missouri breaks down what genetic engineering really means for the swine industry. He outlines key concepts like transgenics, gene editing, and introgression, and discusses where this technology could take us, especially regarding disease resistance. Learn how these tools might help producers face today’s biggest health challenges. Listen now on all major platforms!

"Genetic engineering is a tool that takes us to the next level by enabling targeted changes to traits that need to be changed, amended, or brought into the population."