Blueprint: To minimize disease transmission, swine producers and veterinarians adopt biosecurity and management practices at the herd level to control and prevent the occurrence of diseases.
As feed efficiency becomes more important and market weights keep increasing, consider the factors associated with eating behaviors and feeder space allowance in your production setting.
In the days leading up to and then following Hurricane Matthew, activists sounded repeated alarms about the damage that would result from flooded hog farms.
With numerous operations and more than 14,000 employees across North Carolina and Virginia, Smithfield has enacted its hurricane preparedness procedures.