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Dr. Tom Painter - What Does It Cost To Have Multiple Pathogens In Your Flow?

Creating a disease database can help sites better understand disease impact. It also can help production staff react quicker. Dr. Tom Painter, Cargill Pork, provides an update on such a disease collection project, focusing on SIV, PRRS, and Mycoplasma Hyopneumoniae, and how they used the database.

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Dr. Glynn Tonsor - Benchmarking Industry Self-Perceptions Regarding Animal Welfare

What are the beef and dairy animal welfare market threats and opportunities? Dr. Glynn Tonsor outlines an ongoing study that researches the disconnect between animal producers and consumers across the nation.

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Dr. Pam Hullinger - Foot and Mouth Disease Continuity of Business Planning

Approximately two-thirds of countries world wide have foot and mouth disease (FMD). If the U.S. were to have an FMD outbreak it would have a serious financial impact on the milk industry. Dr. Pam Hullinger provides a summary and highlights some of the issues of being prepared for FMD, why it is important, and the current focus of the Secure Milk Supply project.

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Resources

Farm Bill 2012

The design and development of the USA Farm Bill 2012 has been going for several years. What is needed to get from here to there? Will agricultural subsidy policy and implementation be changed? How will farm subsidies change? Will the US presidential election delay the Farm Bill?

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE, a.k.a. Mad Cow Disease)

When Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE, Mad Cow Disease, prions) hits the news there is a large portion of the consumer population that worries about being infected and going to extremes to not eat meat. What is BSE and who is responsible for handling outbreaks?

Biz-First Family Tips

How do you work with family in the family farm? Sometimes, do you feel the need for a good 2x4?

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