Fred Kuhr has been working with swine production his entire life. He says it's important when hiring someone to make sure they can work and deal with people because you need an excellent team to do a great job with the animals. Have you ever thought about this?

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Dr. Mote has worked as a molecular geneticist in Canada. He discusses the importance of moving beyond the mindset of animal selection and highlights the importance of taking the time to work on sow selection and management of the gilts as if they were all going to be replacement females, since they will be the next generation on the farm. Do you see this as a way to go?

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As Dr. Becton points out, we must consider what we can do to prevent and avoid ASF contamination. Since the animals' food can be contaminated, she emphasizes having everything go through the office first to ensure a breakpoint. What other measures do you apply to avoid ASF contamination?

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Dr. Mote comments that they are using new systems that track sows’ spatial coordinators, allowing them to know how sows use the pen and also how they interact with each other. They’ve already learned a lot about sow behavior and this data will probably be useful to help with replacement gilt selection in the future. Do you think this will be possible?

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The United States has done a great job at keeping ASF out of its borders. However, more countries are now becoming affected by the virus and these countries keep getting closer to the US border. Today Dr. Lisa Becton identifies key points of risk of infection and discusses ways everyone can help prevent foreign animal disease spread.

"𝘕𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯. 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘈𝘚𝘍 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘏𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘪 𝘸𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘱 𝘶𝘱 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦." - 𝗗𝗿. 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝗮 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗻

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻:

1. What is the new platform EpiX from National Pork Board

2. Assessing the risks of ASF introduction

3. Identifying key points of risk

4. Next steps after identifying ASF risks

5. How do we help the producer be more proactive

6. The ASF transmission routes

7. What we learned after the PED

8. Foreign animal disease checklist for producers

9. Key points

𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁: Dr. Lisa Becton has worked as the Director of Swine Health Information and Research at the National Pork Board since 2008. Lisa received her DVM in 1994 from North Carolina State University and then later received her Master of Science in Food Safety from Michigan State University in 2010.

𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁𝘀, 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘆 𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝗷𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺.

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Dr. Aljets's primary areas of focus are swine production medicine and sow farm management. Thus, he highlights that PCV2 is probably much more complicated than we realize. It is, therefore, necessary to continue discussing and researching this disease. Have you ever had a PCV-2 outbreak on your pig farm?

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Dr. Mote mentions a great example of the use of technology, which is placing cameras in the barns and monitoring sows' behavior to aid in the selection of replacement females for the herd. Did you already implement any technology to help you on your pig farm?

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As a scientist at Smithfield Foods, Dr. DeDecker mentions that there is a huge opportunity to gather data more efficiently and deliver it to the decision-maker more quickly. In this context, most of the farms work with weekly reports, and this can delay decision-making. For instance, by implementing daily reports, decisions can be made at the beginning of a problem. Do you report data weekly or daily on your pig farm?

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Dr. Mote highlights the importance of looking into the available data before the animal is selected. For example, selecting a non-aggressive sow is important in many cases — especially when we have group sow housing. And analyzing the data will help you with that. Do you agree?

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Dr. Paul Yeske has gained recognition for his work with disease management and elimination, and highlights that some studies show that some ingredients tend to be more susceptible than others. However, he also points out that we should look at the other biosecurity risk events and analyze not only how risky the event is, but the frequency with which we do it. Do you perform quality control of the ingredients you use in your animals' diet?