Water medications can be an effective means to treat and prevent disease within a pig herd. Water soluble medications not only reduce labor cost and pig stress but also the mortality rate. However, ...

Dr. Amanda Anderson Reever, a veterinarian with Suidae Health and Production, walks us through how to extract fluids from tongue tips for diagnostic testing. She addresses how this technique has ...

The 2023 Iowa Swine Day program will focus on what it does best: provide widely regarded speakers who will share information on topics vital to today's pork producer. From the morning plenary session ...

Canada pork and poultry processor Olymel has announced its decision to eliminate 177 management positions. Of this number, 120 positions became open in recent months, whereas 57 current employees are ...

Swine veterinarian Larry Coleman of Broken Bow, Neb., gives a lot of presentations around the country, and most of those presentations focus on measures taken to have world-class pork production and ...

Lameness may become unapparent as the pig walks around or is alert to an observer, making the identification of affected individuals for treatment challenging. Joint swelling and locomotion ...

As a production system, how much time are you allotting per week, month or quarter on your plan to start pigs on feed? One of the most important phases of getting a pig to market is the transition of ...