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Alberta Pork Telephone Town Hall Breaking New Ground

It’s been just over a year since the first Alberta Pork telephone town hall was launched to provide the latest on PED and how to prevent it. 15 calls and 2,000 participants later, it’s still going strong, and it’s about to get even better.
 
Starting with the next telephone town hall, Alberta Pork will be expanding the program to include other issues of pressing importance to producers and industry. 
 
Join us on Wednesday, February 25 at 10:30 am Mountain Time as we bring you the latest on PED developments and discuss one of the key aspects of the revised code of practice: Pain mitigation. What are the new requirements? How can producers ensure they comply?
 
We'll also be taking your questions on either of these pressing topics.
 
Watch for more details coming soon!
 
Source: Alberta Pork

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Four Star Pork Industry Conf - Back to Basics: Fundamentals drive vaccine performance

Video: Four Star Pork Industry Conf - Back to Basics: Fundamentals drive vaccine performance

At a time when disease pressure continues to challenge pork production systems across the United States, vaccination remains one of the most valuable and heavily debated tools available to veterinarians and producers.

Speaking at the 2025 Four Star Pork Industry Conference in Muncie, Indiana, Dr. Daniel Gascho, veterinarian at Four Star Veterinary Service, encouraged the industry to return to fundamentals in how vaccines are selected, handled and administered across sow farms, gilt development units and grow-finish operations.

Gascho acknowledged at the outset that vaccination can quickly become a technical and sometimes tedious topic. But he said that real-world execution, not complex immunology, is where most vaccine failures occur.