The Annual Meat Conference is set to kick off this afternoon. Registration is taking place now and all attendees and others are encouraged to get The Annual Meat Conference App (iOS). It’s on my iPhone. You’ll find all kinds of information including conference updates and an attendees list. Get it for Android here. The Annual Meat Conference, sponsored by the …
USFRA Announces Four Fresh Faces of Farming
The U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance (USFRA) has announced four Faces of Farming & Ranching chosen from on-line voting and a panel of judges. The four represent a range of agricultural commodities including corn and soybeans, hogs, cattle, and dairy and they were chosen from nine finalists announced last month at the New York Food Dialogues. The winners will act …
For PRRS Eradication: Use Technology, Share Info
Some people are better than others when it comes to sharing. At the Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica 4th PRRS ARC&E Seminar at the International PRRS Symposium there was plenty of information to share… including how to do a better job at sharing information, as well as using technology. Dr. Jean-Pierre Vaillancourt from the University of Montreal was one of the presenters …
See the PRRS Big Picture, But Don’t Miss Details
You’ve heard the expression, can’t see the forest for the trees. Well, when it comes to the PRRS eradication conversation at the Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica 4th PRRS ARC&E Seminar at the International PRRS Symposium, you have to make sure you’re seeing the big picture without missing important details. “Important stuff has some different levels – the micro level, the macro …
With PRRS, It’s the Last 1 Percent that’s the Problem
One of the talks at the Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica 4th PRRS ARC&E Seminar at the International PRRS Symposium was dubbed “Unreasonable Expectations,” given by Dr. Eric Neuman, originally from Illinois, but now a veterinary epidemiologist with Massey University in New Zealand. Part of the “unreasonable expectation” in PRRS eradication could be thinking the disease can be solved easily. The problem …
BIVI Focus on Solutions, Not Sales, at Seminar
While Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica might be one of the key players in swine vaccines, the company’s 4th PRRS ARC&E Seminar was not about selling inoculations. “The reason [we created this symposium] was [there was] a lot of frustration about how to control PRRS. We didn’t really make the progress we thought we should be making, and we found out we …
Bioportal Could Help with PRRS Decisions
Providing field practitioners with a bioportal to help them make better decisions was one topic of conversation at the 4th Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica PRRS ARC&E Seminar, an event held in conjunction with the International PRRS Symposium. Chuck caught up with Dr. Jean-Paul Cano, a veterinarian with BIVI and on the company’s PRRS team. His talk, “Application of Disease Bioportal for …
Bioportal Source of Info on Livestock Diseases
Researchers at the University of California-Davis have created a bioportal, a place where information on a variety of diseases from all over the nation and the world can be combined into one place. The idea was of great interest at the Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica 4th PRRS ARC&E Seminar at the International PRRS Symposium (and we’ll talk more later how the …
Pork Industry Comes Together To Fight PRRS
Welcoming everyone to the 4th Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica PRRS ARC&E Seminar was Dr. Laura Batista. This event is held in conjunction with the International PRRS Symposium. They bring together an international group of researchers, students, swine health specialists, companies and producers for a couple of days of informational presentations and to have a chance to network with people in areas …
Economic Outlook for Pork Industry
Pork producers were well represented at the recent National Association of Farm Broadcasting’s Trade Talk. I sat down with National Pork Producers Council economist, Steve Meyer. Steve shared his thoughts on the 2012 growing season, as well as his outlook for our next fiscal year. “It’s been a tough year because of the cost of production. The drought drove corn …