technology

Agriculture Technology Helping Food Safety This year's National Institute for Animal Agriculture conference provided a cross-section of the livestock industry unlike any other event. Of note is the session track focused on Foot and Mouth Disease preparedness. The working session was especially valuable given the range of industries represented.

SwineCast 0756 Show Notes:

• At the 2012 National Pork Industry Forum, the National Pork Board delegates requested a review of sow housing research and policy.  Director of Swine Welfare for the National Pork Board, Sherrie Niekamp provides this overview of the information for the 2013 delegates and announced a series of online information presentations coming soon.  

Strategies to Improve Swine Reproduction Dr. Ross discussed emerging and proven technologies within swine reproduction and shared how this technology may benefit your farm moving forward.

PRRS: Where Is It? Dr. Kurt Rossow, DVM, Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, University of Minnesota, has been working on disease mapping (to support PRRS elimination efforts), making it a useable digital tool for farm participants. What has been learned about digitizing map data? Are you comfortable with other people seeing your results as soon as you do? And the interpretation of maps and related data can vary.

Swine Management By Data Dr. Mike Brumm, Brumm Swine Consultancy, provides benchmarking tools and tips that he runs across in barns, especially around record keeping, that help improve the process of production. He suggests there will be an increase in barn construction; with this new construction there needs to be some planning to support record keeping! Dr. Brumm adds information on fuel and utility use and what some of the triggers are that need to be monitored.