prrs

SwineCast 0576 Show Notes:

• Swine Vet Service's Mike Eisenmenger joins us from Boehringer-Ingelheim's Carolina Health Seminar with thoughts on how management of PRRS has changed over the past decade and top issues for control.

SwineCast 0565 Show Notes:

• The Morrison Group reviews the disease and pathogen elimination presentation from the American Association of Swine Veterinarians, meeting held in March 2010. Dr. Gordon D. Spronk, Pipestone Veterinary Clinic and Pipestone System; Dr. Mark Engle, PIC; Dr. Luc Dufresne, Seaboard Foods; and Dr. Jean Paul Cano, Boehringer Ingelheim, go over some of the presentation highlights and impacts to pork producers and swine veterinarians.

It's frustrating to see the administration hoist the export flag, setting the goal of doubling U.S. exports in five years (which has never happened before) while congress sits on their respective... hands when it comes to critical free trade agreements ready to sign.

A National Pork Producers Council release noted, "Just this week, an ad hoc coalition of agricultural and food organizations urged members of Congress to work with the Obama administration to remove any remaining impediments to a 'rapid implementation' of the free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea.