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SwineCast update for April 1, 2010, What are Some Control Options for H1N1?

John Blue — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:34:01 +0000

Last Friday’s USDA Pig Crop Report sent markets sharply higher with audible cheering heard from North Carolina to Nebraska. Economist Steve Meyers noted the report "had brought the series of boring pig crop reports to a screeching halt." You can hear the National Pork Board’s post-report press conference here.

Also some interesting conversations around international markets and imports this past month with one presentation on China’s role in world pork markets from an economic perspective and some likely outcomes from a long-term perspective.

We believe with the most recent crop report indicating sufficient corn supplies for both biofuels and feed use (albeit at higher prices than producers would like to see), the swine industry can look forward from a very dark period in its history. In the combined impacts of high feed prices, dramatically improved production efficiency increasing slaughter numbers and weights, and the novel H1N1 virus misnaming debacle, there are a lot of empty barns and hearts out there. Spring can’t come too soon!

Again, thank you for your time and participation! If you have any additional thoughts you would like to share, please feel free to contact us.

SwineCast^® Conversations

What are Some Control Options for H1N1?

Dr. Sarah Probst-Miller returns with her Carthage Swine Vet Service colleagues for this most recent P's In A Pod program looking at H1N1, it's impact on the industry last year and control considerations and options.

March Pig Crop Report Yields Big Surprises

Pig Crop Report Perspectives from the National Pork Board. How will the USDA number affect your operation?

Food Safety Technology And Imported Product Concerns

Dr. Mike Doyle, Director of the Center for Food Safety at the University of Georgia, talks with Dr. Moira Gunn of the Tech Nation Podcast Series at the IT Conversations Network about the issues of food safety technology and concerns related to imported product testing.

Agriculture Telling its Story

Animal Agriculture Alliance's 9th Annual Stakeholder Summit is April 28-29 2010 at the Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel in Arlington, Virginia. The main topic is "Truth, Lies and Videotape: Is Activism Jeopardizing Our Food Security?" This event will feature a keynote by Dr. Elizabeth Parker, Chairman, Animal Agriculture Alliance and Chief Veterinarian, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. Topics being covered include: an animal agriculture legislative update, terrorism against the food industry, and proactive animal well-being initiatives. See program for details.

Global Agriculture Agchat discussion looked to understand the global agriculture issues to be addressed so more people can be fed in the future. Of note is the video from the Earth Institute: Global Agriculture Systems and Food and National Security and the FAO ag trade visualization tool.

Raw milk is getting has more public exposure due to recent illnesses in Michigan. At the core of the issue is food safety and consumer choice.

Looking to discover other agriculture focused conversations? Start by looking into these agriculture tags: Farm, Ag4all, Profood, AgChat, and Swine.

SwineCast^® Conference Connection

Fresh presentations from the 2010 NIAA One Health: Implications for Animal Agriculture

Video: H1N1 and Comprehensive and Integrated Swine Surveillance Dr. Liz Wagstrom, National Pork Board, from NIAA's One Health: Implications for Animal Agriculture, March 15 - 17, 2010, Kansas City, MO, USA.

Video: Ballot Initiatives: The Ohio experience Mike Bumgarner, Ohio Farm Bureau Federation, from NIAA's One Health: Implications for Animal Agriculture, March 15 - 17, 2010, Kansas City, MO, USA.

Additional presentations available for the Opening Session, Animal Care, Animal Identification, Emerging Diseases, and International Trade.

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Dr. Liz Wagstrom - H1N1 and Comprehensive and Integrated Swine Surveillance

Truffle Media Networks — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 02:40:04 +0000

H1N1 and Comprehensive and Integrated Swine Surveillance - Dr. Liz Wagstrom, National Pork Board, from NIAA's One Health: Implications for Animal Agriculture, March 15 - 17, 2010, Kansas City, MO, USA.

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SwineCast update for September 17, 2009, What is the FDA's Perspective on Food Safety?

John Blue — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:09:23 +0000

Just back from the Midwest Pork Conference. We had a conversation with Dr. Tom Gillespie, Rennselaer Swine Services, about the metric of 30 pigs per sow per year, and learned from Dr. Larry Rueff, Greensburg's Swine Vet Services, about the future of swine influenza virus (SIV) management.

Next stop St. Paul for the annual UMN Leman conference. This excellent program always visits top issues and ongoing concerns for swine vets and producers with top names in the world sharing their learnings. Dr. Peter Davies is this year’s coordinator.

This is a good place to plug those fairly regular presentations by The Morrison Group – “At The Meeting”. Those audio programs with leading vets typically follow gatherings like the Leman conference and are posted at SwineCast.com with the support of Boehringer-Ingelheim. Good information and easy to take with you on that next trip.

SwineCast^® Conversations

Updates and information on the industry.

SwineCast 0466 Dealing with SIV at the Midwest Pork Conference. Discussing the next few months of swine influenza virus (SIV) management with Dr Larry Rueff of Greensburg's Swine Vet Services.
SwineCast 0465 Striving for 30 P/S/Y at Midwest Pork Conference. Making the right decisions to reach 20 pigs per sow per year. Dr Tom Gillespie of Rennselaer Swine Services shares tips and considerations in reaching and exceeding the number we've used as a goal for some time.
SwineCast 0464 FDA Perspective on Food Safety - What You Need To Know. Dr David Acheson shares the key issues for the Food and Drug Administration in dealing with food safety and traceability, from the NIAA ID/Info Expo conference in KC.

SwineCast^® Headliners

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When will it ever get better?: by Mark Greenwood. "I cannot tell you how many times I have been asked this question over the past year. It seems so long ago in 2007 when the industry had strong profits and strong balance sheets. The answer I keep telling people over and over again is if demand stays sluggish it could take up to 2011 for the industry to be consistently profitable again." Here are more thoughts from Mark Greenwood.
Reminder that H1N1 is not transmitted through food (pork): from the NPPC. "The National Pork Producers Council told foreign officials that the U.S. pork industry and the U.S. government are gearing up for a return of the novel H1N1 flu and that both would continue to get out the messages that the flu is not transmitted through food (pork) and that pork is safe to eat." Discover more about what the NPPC advised foreign officials on the pork industry.

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Dr. Jim Lowe - H1N1 as a media disaster for swine industry

Truffle Media Networks — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:16:25 +0000

This is a special transcript of the audio SwineCast episode featuring content from the recent Carthage Vet Service annual Swine Seminar, September 1, 2009, Malcomb, Illinois, USA. Our coverage made possible by Suvaxyn from Fort Dodge.

Today's program features Dr. Jim Lowe with comments from his presentation on the novel H1N1 Swine Influenza virus, an update on where we are, and what steps you should be taking for the fall. Dr. Jim Lowe:

Jim Lowe: We pass viruses between species all the time. So the fact that we have a swine virus, or the novel H1N1 floating around in pigs, is not any big deal. We see human virus in pigs all the time. We see pig virus in people all the time.

The difference is that the virus transmitted. So it went from one person to the next, and that's really the change.

So what have we got today? We've got a human like H1N1 and H1N2 that evolved in 2003. We've got this recombinant H2N3 virus which Marie and I sorted out as some ducks that went into pigs. These kinds of things get our friends in CDC really, really excited. The point is food changes all the time. There's lots of it. It happens.

So what do we know? What happened this spring? Well what we know happened this spring is that we found a new virus on April 24th. At least it was reported in Mexico on April 24th. It was a Friday afternoon. That was a long weekend. We knew it was bad. We didn't know what was going to happen.

What we've also figured out is that we reported it out of Mexico, but it was actually probably found in California several weeks ahead of that. And better than that, we now think we have isolated maybe the index case or the first case out of Baja, California in a young girl, really from way back last fall.

So this virus has been in the human population a long time. We just didn't figure it out until last spring. Again, not completely uncommon.

OK. We've talked about the eight parts of the flu virus. The H and the N are big deals. So what happened here? This is what we would call a triple reassortant. The N gene is Eurasian or Asian. We think this is a Korean type NA gene. It's a North American like HA gene. Then we've got all these other genes, right? So we have got swine. We have got Avian. We have got human.

We call this the triple reassortant gene because this is the common virus that is there everywhere in pig viruses today, and actually in human viruses, so we have just swapped some new ones out. It goes backwards.

Is it a big deal? No. We share viruses between species almost all the time. This is a very, very common event. The uncommon part was it that it went from person to person.

What really happened is we live in a very, very different media environment today. Mexico makes this announcement. We call it swine flu because the virus kind of looks like H and N genes from swine. And we know it's been circulating in people retrospectively for a long time.

But if you are CNBC, or you are CNN, or you are MSNBC, you are Fox News, you don't have much to talk about on the weekend. "Hey, here is a new story! Hey, we can pick this up!"

Hey, if you haven't heard, Ted Kennedy died. Michael Jackson died too. It is the same phenomenon. What did we hear when Michael Jackson died? We heard about Michael Jackson for four or five straight days. That was all that was on the news. If you turned the radio on and you were driving up and down the road, that is all you heard about.

Guess what? Swine flu is a hot topic. We turned up the crank. We put the pressure on. Bingo. We have got a disaster. It wasn't a disaster. It was a really nice media disaster. I think maybe the correct name for this virus is CNN Flu.

The thing I want you to keep in the back of your head; they've reported, I don't know, 1,000 or something deaths across the world today due to this virus. We kill about 300,000 people in the world a year with run of the mill influenza virus. We kill 300,000 people a year across the world with your run of the mill seasonal influenza virus. [Editor: Dr. Lowe is referring to USA death approximations at time of talk. World wide H1N1 deaths are 3,400 at time of talk]

So what have we learned? Well I think we have learned several things, and these are kind of my key take home lessons on where we're at. One, we build, and I don't want to use the term a house of cards, but almost a house of cards built exclusively on export markets. We grew, and we grew, and we grew. We felt we could export forever. Oops! A little downturn in the economy; "Hmm. This is a good reason to protect our home market, because we really don't want any flu in here."

Again, Pork meat doesn't transport it, but when you are dealing in an export market world, there are a lot of things, and there are a lot of people in here better qualified than me to talk about that, but it is really easy to create a non-tariff trade barrier to keep meat out to protect your home market. That is clearly one of the things that happened here.

Secondly, we have our friends in Washington, and in some cases state governments, and in one case in Atlanta, which is where CDC's headquartered, that we have promoted that food is absolutely zero risk. There is no risk to food safety, right? If you watched any of the debates in Congress, they said, "we are going to have food safety legislation. We are going to protect food safety. We are going to do this."

We don't have an unsafe food supply. We have a very safe food supply. But it became a political issue. So we have a population, and our consumers and our customers are focused on the fact that, hey, food supply is no risk. "Hey, could I get this from flu? Could I get this from pigs? Could I get this from pig meat? I need to be nervous, right?" So we created a risk by having safe food that created a potential risk that nobody is willing to tolerate.

Third, and I think this is a big take home and is one of our go forward actions, we as an industry were wholly and completely unprepared to deal with this. We were unprepared from a risk management standpoint. We were totally unprepared from a media standpoint. And we were really unprepared from a government standpoint.

In these kinds of scenarios, the government has a big role. And I think Jen Greiner is in here today. But Jen and Bobby Accord in our NPPC shop in D.C. really did a Yeoman's job in going in there and working with not only CDC, but USDA to really create a situation that politically could have been terrible. There is a lot of pressure from the media to do something. And if we are in government, what is the first rule of good government? "We are from the government and we are here to help." They have a lot of pressure to do something.

And I think if we look at the response that CDC's had, we look at the response that USDA's had, we have really gotten off pretty good on this one. There has actually been a very, very logical approach. And really I think we need to give the NPPC a pat on the back. And those of you who are not doing voluntary check off, I'll put a plug in right now.

We need to contribute to that organization, guys. The political ramifications of things facing our industry today are 10X worse than the science problems. And if we are not advocates, we are in trouble. So those of you that are contributing, thank you. Those that are not, I'd strongly encourage you to think about the voluntary check off to support NPPC. They really are out carrying the ball for us, and with really efficient use of our money on kind of a shoestring budget.

And I think the final thing we have to remember on this deal is that pigs aren't a risk to people, but people are a risk to pigs. So what are our take home messages? We as an industry must learn to work in the new media atmosphere.

We tend to be technical people. We want it to be right. We want to have the answer. We want to solve the science problem. Folks, it ain't a science problem. Welfare is not a science problem. These are political issues. We have to think politically. Communicate, communicate, communicate. We as an industry have to be open. We have to communicate what we are doing. We have to advocate for ourselves, because if we don't do it, our friends on the other side will certainly take the opportunity to run us into the ground.

If you'd been in Washington D.C. in June you would have seen posters when the food safety legislation was up in every metro station, or the two main metro stations, near the capitol that said, "Stop Antibiotics."

There were four or five key messages. They were put up by the Pew Charitable Trust. You've got young staffers coming onto the hill reading those signs everyday. They can't sort anything out. It is a big deal.

And then I think the final point I have got is that we have to accept volatility. And so Mark sitting here in the front row, he is going to talk about it. But how do we manage our risk as producers and take the risk out and continue to mitigate risks with various contract mechanisms?

Very briefly, because I know I am close on time. It is not in the proceedings, but I want to give you some quick take homes on what we think the strategy going into the fall needs to be with influenza virus prevention, particularly with novel influenza virus.

One, the novel influenza virus vaccine will not be here until at least October. CDC has not made clear about when exactly it will be released because they don't know. They're not hiding anything from us. It's in testing stages at this point. They don't know whether it is going to be a one or a two dose program, et cetera. They are working through that.

The other part of the vaccine for the novel influenza virus is that currently farm workers are not high on the priority list. They're actually low on the priority list. Young people, babies, and old people are high on the priority list. And there is some argument we ought to be vaccinating all of the school kids and their parents and we would snuff any outbreak out, but that is not what is going to happen today.

So what are our recommendations? One, make sure you wash your hands. The CDC has some really good posters. I know we put them up in the clinic. I would encourage all of you employers. Put those up on the farm. Put those up in your business and make sure employees are practicing good hand hygiene, etc, to prevent spread. Fingers to mouth is where you get transmission.

Two, when the vaccine becomes available, use it in the interim. We certainly still need to encourage everybody to use seasonal flu vaccine and make sure that they've got that in place.

And thirdly, the CDC is recommending, and we are fully supporting, anybody who has influenza like illness, so fever, pneumonia, cough, et cetera, that they stay home for at least 24 hours after that fever breaks.

Ned: It is Dr. Jim Lowe speaking at the Carthage Vet Service annual Swine Seminar, September 1, 2009, Malcomb, Illinois, USA. SwineCast coverage made possible by Suvaxyn from Fort Dodge. SwineCast is a production of Truffle Media Networks, which is solely responsible for its content. It may not reflect the views, opinions, or positions of our sponsors. The content for SwineCast is designed with you, our listener, in mind. Thanks for hooking up today. It is always good to be with you. I am Ned Arthur and we will be talking soon.

SwineCast update for September 3, 2009, What happened at Carthage Vet Service (CVS) Annual Swine Conference?

John Blue — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:45:13 +0000

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Update for September 3, 2009

Just back from the recent Carthage Vet Service (CVS) Annual Swine Conference in Macomb, IL, USA. Dr. Joe Connor reported attendance near last year’s level, surely good news in the current climate. Very direct comments from a number of speakers relating to production practices in various sessions including Sow Farm Management, Wean to Finish, Ventilation and a new session on Employee Management, where I spent my break-out session time. More Annual Swine Conference material will be published over next few days.

We’ll be sharing comments from the speakers who have agreed to allow us to do so. Overall, CVS knows how to do this program and keeps on top of key industry issues. Dr Sarah Probst-Miller filled a couple of speaker slots including an employee session and an introduction to Pfizer’s 'Walking the Pen' swine production simulation.

Suvaxyn has also been sponsoring CVS P's in a Pod podcast, featuring in-depth presentations on SIV Zoonotic Potential and Torque Teno Virus (TTV), discussed at CVS’ website and here at SwineCast.com (Dr. Sarah Probst Miller on TTV and Carthage Vet Services Shares On SIV).

Here in September we’ll see some of you at the Midwest Pork Conference and others in St. Paul for the Annual Leman Conference from the University of Minnesota. Thanks for staying connected!

SwineCast^® Conversations

Updates and information on the industry.

SwineCast 0459 Not Just What It Is But What To Do About H1N1 This Fall. Dr. Jim Lowe looks at the reality of H1N1, why it's still making news, and what to consider for your operation's best practices this fall.
SwineCast 0458 Engaging Employees Increases Productivity and Profits. Dr. Larry Firkins describes an engaged employee and illustrates why they are so important to your organization. And how you can encourage engagement regardless of your current financial condition.

SwineCast^® Headliners

Get the latest thoughts and commentary on the industry.

Do you have to know the language in order to train your Spanish speaking employees?: by Orlando Gil. "This is a question that sometimes comes up when discussing the opportunities and challenges of having Spanish-speaking employees in agricultural operations. Often, the perception is that if you don’t know the language, it can be pretty hard to train these individuals to do what you need them to do. Knowing the language helps, but this by itself, won’t guarantee success when training your Spanish-speaking employees." Here are more thoughts on knowing the language and providing effective training.

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SwineCast update for Aug 6, 2009, Are MCOOL and Swine Flu an Act of God? Wait For The Ruling.

John Blue — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:13:30 +0000

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A special three part series has been posted featuring SwineCast management consultant Don Tyler. Don brings a wealth of experience and insight via conversations and consultations with producers across a wide spectrum of business models.

Key comments are… Talk to someone. If you observe behavior changes in yourself or in others, ask questions or provide additional information to those asking you. Certainly this experience is beyond historical precedent as we have dealt with animal health issues, exports, feed costs… etc. Many in our industry have experienced unanticipated change first hand.

This current business cycle is 1) not typical and 2) may not be resolved using the same solutions as before. We hope these three programs will assist in evaluating the current situation, identifying the best outcomes and initiating the moves necessary. Stay connected to keep in touch with the front-burner issues, feedback@swinecast.com.

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Updates and information on the industry.

Audio: Special 3 part series: Assessing Your Future => Reading The Signs, Moving Ahead, and Keeping Your Perspective.
Audio: SwineCast 0446, Are MCOOL and Swine Flu an Act of God? Wait For The Ruling.
Audio: SwineCast 0445, New Website Provides Information on SIV (The Real One).

SwineCast^® Headliners

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Blog: Political Food for Thought: Organic Food Takes a Hit, by Dennis DiPietre. "I am sure there are some true believers really hitting the ceiling today after the release of the meta-study published this month in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition entitled "Nutritional Quality of Organic Foods: A Systematic Review". This journal is certainly not "in the pocket" of major agri-business interest nor is the institute which conducted the analysis: The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Here is the money quote: On the basis of a systematic review of studies of satisfactory quality, there is no evidence of a difference in nutrient quality between organically and conventionally produced foodstuffs. The small differences in nutrient content detected are biologically plausible and mostly relate to differences in production methods". Read more.
Blog: Jeremy Knutson Commodity commentary on markets. Read more.

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DairyCast update for July 27, 2009, Perspective on international agriculture development

John Blue — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:48:55 +0000

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I just returned from the Wisconsin Farm Technology Days, located just outside of Waterloo. While there, it was interesting to see the number of attendees that apparently were not involved in agriculture.

It seemed to me that thousands of participants were actually the general public. The consumers had come out in masses to see what agriculture and food production are all about. It was certainly first-hand evidence that consumers are increasing interested in learning more about the food value chain.

And beyond that they are beginning to take strong actions to find answers to their questions. This makes our job, as food producers, even more important to ensure the truth is being heard.

What are you hearing from consumers? I would enjoy hearing your comments, send me a note.

DairyCast ^®Conversations

Audio: DairyCast 0283 - A perspective on international agriculture development by Tim Dalton.
Audio: DairyCast 0282 - NASS takes a look at the organic industry.
Audio: DairyCast 0281 - Bale 100% of your hay without rain and harvest all of the leaves.

DairyCast^® Headliners

Get the latest thoughts and commentary from all our headliners.

Blog: Health Inspectors Caught Swine Flu Investigating Alberta Pig Farm Outbreak. By Dr. Terry Etherton. Read more.
Blog: The New Wedge Between Crops and Livestock: Government Policy, By Dennis DiPietre. "In one sense, there has always been a certain conflict between crops and livestock since they tend to benefit from each other when the one is not doing so well at least price-wise. When crop prices are low, at least temporarily, livestock producers gain profits through lower cost of production. When crop prices skyrocket, livestock producers tend to struggle until a passthrough occurs or some adjustments take place. In the past however, there were good reasons for the two major arms of U.S. Ag to talk about their symbiosis and protect each other's interests. That's when the vast majority of U.S. produced corn, for instance, was destined to be livestock feed. That dynamic is changing largely due to government policy changes. " Read more.

DairyCast^® Ag Job Tools

Job lists are good leading sources of what might happen in the world. In the agricultural industry, there are several job listing sources on which to keep an eye.

AgCareers.com, AgJobNetwork , Hansen Agri-Placement , and Ag1Source all have useful tools to search for jobs. But the real power monitoring comes from the RSS feeds (see RSS in plain English video for background). With an RSS feed you can quickly scan job listings.

Some good examples include RSS feeds from AgCareers.com (RSS page) and Indeed.com. Remember, these RSS information feeds only give you information about a listed position, it wouldn't get you the job... You still need to do the hard work to get it.

One interesting use of RSS feeds is monitoring job opportunities. Using Indeed.com you can filter by company, key words, or job title. Who is Land O'Lakes Inc. looking for? Use this feed. What is Wells' Dairy Inc. up to? Do a search!

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CropVilage update for June 18, 2009, USDA Loses Swampbuster Court Challenge

John Blue — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:30:00 +0000

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Update for June 18, 2009

The last few conferences and programs I’ve attended have been challenging, not only in communicating the presentations and advances that this industry survives on, but in watching and reporting the whipsaws of our product and input markets. As a producer/grower, you observe these issues and deal with them on a daily basis.

Today I’m sharing comments from my co-producer here at Truffle Media, Trent Fredenburg. Trent’s a fine young man who covers the Beef and Dairy industry, and his recent post reminds me once again that there’s a higher purpose to what we do in agriculture. Keep in touch and send us a note at feedback@cropvillage.com.

From Trent Fredenburg
"This past weekend my eyes were once again opened to the potential and bright future ahead for agriculture. For two days I served on the nominating committee for our next state FFA officer team.

During the time I was able to see the passion and excitement that numerous high school graduates have for our industry. I was extremely impressed with their dedication, commitment and leadership ability. While the challenges we face continue to grow, it is great to see so many young leaders actively engaged on our side of the battle. Several of them were involved in one way or another with on-farm livestock or poultry production.

I believe any efforts to recruit and develop young people to be active leaders in our industry will be magnified significantly and we will all reap the benefits. "

CropVillage^™ Conversations

Audio: CropVillage 0161 - What's The Big Deal With H1N1.
Audio: CropVillage 0160, USDA Loses Swampbuster Court Challenge.

CropVillage^™ Headliners

Blog: Russian Roulette with Three or Four Chambers Loaded, By Dennis DiPietre. Read more.
Article: The Fuel of the Future Is Grassoline, From Scientific American . Read more.

CropVillage^™ Conference Connection

From The World Agricultural Forum: 2009 World Congress May 18-20, 2009, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.
- Episode: Thoughts on Sustainability.
- Episode: AFBF's Bob Stallman Comments.

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SwineCast update for June 11, 2009, WHO and H1N1 Plus 2009 World Pork Expo

John Blue — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:45:22 +0000

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Update for June 11, 2009

Incredible array of information available now at SwineCast.com on industry issues and concerns. Check out Steve Meyers comments on getting from where we are to where we need to be, economically.

And just posted is a presentation by Dr Greg Stephenson of Iowa State’s Vet Diagnostic Lab on H1N1. This is something you need to listen to. He talks not just about what it is, but where it came from, why its of concern to world health authorities and what the potential impact on our industry could be.

Please forward this post to others in our industry. Its critical that the information reach producers, managers and owners across the board.

We hope that you enjoy and benefit from these great resources! Please feel free to share these presentations with your colleagues and co-workers.

Stay connected to keep in touch with the front-burner issues and stay in touch, feedback@swinecast.com.

SwineCast^® Conversations

Updates and information on the industry.

Audio: SwineCast 0430, WPE - Why WHO Is Concerned About H1N1 and You Should Be, Too.
Audio: SwineCast 0429, Producer Retirement Program Questions and Answers.
Audio: SwineCast 0428, WPE - Conversation with Dr Steve Meyers.

SwineCast^® Headliners

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Blog: Russian Roulette with Three or Four Chambers Loaded, By Dennis DiPietre. "The pig production business has always had its ups and downs but developments over the last few years have resulted in the structuralization of increased levels of price and financial risk. By structuralization, I mean that these factors are now regular, recurring added risks that are no longer random, isolated events which no risk management process can adequately predict or mitigate effectively." Read more.
Blog: Jeremy Knutson "Corn fails for 3rd time against $4.50". Read more.
Blog: Greenhouse Gas Reporting Plan Could Increase Environmental Problems. Read more.

SwineCast^® Conference Connection

From the 2009 World Pork Expo, June 3 to 5, Des Moines, Iowa, USA.
- Video: 2009 World Pork Expo Educational Seminar Presentations.
- Pictures from the 2009 World Pork Expo, including BarbeQlossal activities.

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SwineCast update for May 14, 2009: Transportation Biosecurity and Determining the Industry Cost of H1N1

John Blue — Fri, 15 May 2009 01:17:02 +0000

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Update for May 14, 2009

Markets slowly recovering from the impact of H1N1 but economists say the total industry cost is well over $60 million. All this for a virus which was poorly named.

NPPC says World Pork Expo will go on. John Wrigley visits with information on the program and a reminder of the date change. This year’s Expo takes place Wednesday through early Friday afternoon. Then the Bar-B-Que teams take over and turn up the heat.

SwineCast is proud to announce our Bar-B-Que entry in conjunction with well-known industry analyst and exceptional consumer, Dr. Dennis DiPietre. Dennis is a regular blogger on the headliners tab at SwineCast. We’ll be "twittering" the Bar-B-Qlossal program Friday and Saturday from the Iowa State Fairgrounds. See you there! .

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Audio: SwineCast 0419, Transportation Biosecurity - World Pork Expo Program.
Audio: SwineCast 0418, H1N1 - Determining the Industry Cost.

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Blog: You've Been Branded!, By Mark Jewell . Read more.
Blog: I Never Forecast Price but..., By Dennis DiPietre. "When you consider price movements in hogs, there are at least three regular patterns of price movements that are happening simultaneously and their interaction sometimes gives us an unusual outcome." Read more.
Blog: Jeremy Knutson provides insights on the markets. Read more.
Blog: H1N1 and Your Employees as Messengers, By Don Tyler. Read more.

SwineCast^® Conference Connection

2009 World Pork Expo, June 3 to 5, Des Moines, Iowa, USA. Selected conversations and presentations will be available on SwineCast.com. Reminder: SwineCast is proud to announce our Bar-B-Que in conjunction with well-known industry analyst and exceptional consumer, Dr. Dennis DiPietre. Stay connected to learn more.
Continuing series from The National Institute for Animal Agriculture's The Changing Face of Animal Agriculture conference held March 31 - April 1, 2009, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
- Video: Lisa Katic - Food and Nutrition Policy: Are they getting the right message?
- Video: Dan Sutherland - Processing Changes: Meeting the challenge of shifting consumer preferences.

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