The last presentation at the Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Swine Health Seminar did not focus on PRRS. Instead we heard a presentation from Chad Stahl, North Carolina State University, on controlling post wean scours. Yeah, it’s as nasty as it sounds too. Chad was talking about post E. coli caused post weaning diarrhea and ways to mitigate it in your herd. …
Awards Handed Out at Int’l Conf. on Precision Agriculture
Nothing like moving across country to put you a bit behind. Just a couple of things left over from last month’s 10th International Conference on Precision Agriculture that I wanted to share with you. First and foremost is the awards handed out at the ICPA gathering. The awards were presented by Paul Schrimpf, Group Editor the CropLife Media Group at …
Train Your Pig To Test Orally
We’ve heard about the oral testing of hogs for disease from Jeff Zimmerman, DVM, Iowa State University, before, here and here. But a guy with a last name of Zimmerman is worth hearing again! And that’s what we did at the Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Swine Health Seminar. Jeff has found in his work that there is a better way to …
Positive Swine Industry Economic Report
The participants at the Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Swine Health Seminar heard a positive economic report from Steve Meyer, Paragon Economics. Steve also modeled a new BIVI cap for us. He starts out saying the best news this year has been hog prices which recovered very nicely in the spring. Supplies have been reduced as a consequence of increased input costs …
Don’t Forget Swine Diseases Other Than PRRS
When it comes to hog production your veterinarian is one of the first sources of information and often considered a “team member.” At the Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Swine Health Seminar Mike Elsenmenger, DVM, Swine Vet Center, talked to us about production. Mike wanted attendees to know that to have successful grow-finish pigs it starts at the sow farm and that …
Encouraging Area/Regional PRRS Control
The first presentation of the Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Swine Health Seminar focused on the control of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome which is better know as the PRRS virus. Dr. Laura Batista, DVM, Boehringer Ingelheim, provided a look at various projects to create area or regional control of the disease. She was also encouraging attendees to get involved or start …
BIVI Swine Health Seminar Overview
The emcee for the North Carolina Swine Health Seminar is David Gocken, Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica North America National Sales Manager for the Swine Group. I spoke with him before we got started to get an overview of the program here. David says this is the 10th annual seminar that BIVI has conducted and although it has been in different places, …
BIVI Swine Health Seminar
The 10th annual Boehringer Ingelheim North Carolina Swine Health Seminar is in session. We’ve got a classroom full and an all day program. Topics today include Area/Regional Control of PRRS, Nursery/Finishing, Key Points of Production, Economics, Oral Fluid Diagnostics, Controlling Post Wean Scours and lots of time for Q&A. If you don’t know what all that means don’t worry. I’ll …
Zimfo Bytes
American Farmland Trust (AFT) is celebrating National Farmers Market Week through its America’s Favorite Farmers Markets contest and the launch of an online leader-board of the top 20 vote getters in each of four categories. The lists of boutique, small, medium and large markets track up-to-the-minute results during the final month of voting, which closes on August 31. The Florida …
North Carolina Swine Health Sunset
The sunset over the Intracoastal from Wrightsville Beach, NC was pretty. This is just one of the scenes from the Boehringer Ingenheim Vetmedica, Inc. 10th annual North Carolina Swine Health Seminar. Cindy and I are here through the weekend and I’ll have a number of stories for you tomorrow. We had a nice rain shower which we could actually use …