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Swine Vaccination Guide from Iowa Pork Industry Center

Disease Managing disease Treatments and prevention

7 May 2025

2 minute read

Winter housing for swine welfare

Pig Welfare Housing type Heat and cold stress

31 January 2024

6 minute read

Providing housing to swine in cold winter weather includes many decisions

Reproductive herd management: measuring repro performance and breeding systems

Genetics and reproduction Pig Welfare Housing type

29 January 2024

13 minute read

An overview of the basics of reproductive herd management in pigs

Mycotoxins and their effect on swine and poultry production

Herd management Feed and nutrition Non-notifiable diseases

1 November 2023

9 minute read

Feed grains contaminated by mycotoxins hurt feed quality and are detrimental to production in poultry and swine. Some key mycotoxins can induce differential impacts on poultry and swine production performance.

Reproduction in Swine - Understanding the estrous cycle for herd management

Genetics and reproduction Herd management Sow management

5 September 2023

4 minute read

Understanding timing of estrous cycle is essential to improving reproductive success of your sows

November - December 2021

What is known about the new omicron coronavirus variant?

Market Trends Coronavirus (COVID-19)

7 December 2021

3 minute read

Researchers are working to learn more - here's what scientists know now

Diagnostic tool offers pig producers with early diagnosis of often-fatal 'Strep zoo'

Disease Managing disease Non-notifiable diseases

24 November 2021

3 minute read

Researchers developed a novel Strep zoo diagnostic test that can distinguish between virulent and avirulent strains of the pathogen in as little as four hours

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