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Keys to Achieving High-Health Status
By Paul Yeske, DVM Swine Vet Center, St. Peter, MN (National Hog Farmer) - Health is key for efficient grow-finish performance. Without good health, an animal's potential cannot be fully expressed.
Lower health status is a leading cause of increased variation in grow-finish performance. Improved health in grow-finish also reduces the need for feed-grade medications. Management tools must be used to optimize individual and group health.
Because health is so important to efficiency, the industry is developing more high-health systems, including efforts to control porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) and raise PRRS-negative grow-finish pigs.
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Source: National Hog Farmer - 15th October 2002
