Quantifying health challenges on pigs

Understanding how disease affects commercial production is imperative for pig producers to quantify its full impact on pig performance, carcass quality and net returns. Research conducted on US commercial pig farms examined the consequence of health challenges on these parameters. While swine production in America’s Midwest is in a unique position of being favourably located geographically, having a high density of pig farms increases the risk of disease transmission among farms. Porcine repr