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Porkpod: Following the release of the USDA quarterly Hogs and Pigs Report, the Pork Checkoff hosted a roundtable discussion with market analysts

Length: 9:52
Speaker: Steve Meyer, President of Paragon Economics
Dr. Ron Plain, Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Kevin Grier, Independent Livestock and Meat Market Analyst, Guelph, Ontario
Daniel Bluntzer, Director of Research, Frontier Risk Management, Corpus Christi, TX

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Following the release of the USDA quarterly Hogs and Pigs Report, the Pork Checkoff hosted a roundtable discussion with market analystsP

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Leman Swine Conference: Vaccination strategies to reduce PRRS virus recombination

Video: Leman Swine Conference: Vaccination strategies to reduce PRRS virus recombination

Dr. Jay Calvert, Research Director with Zoetis, recently spoke to The Pig Site’s Sarah Mikesell at the 2023 Leman Swine Conference in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, about his conference presentation on porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) virus recombination.

“The number one problem in PRRS these days from a vaccine point of view is the emergence of new strains of PRRS. Since the beginning, we have had new strains and a lot of diversity,” said Dr. Jay Calvert. “We thought we knew it was all about mutation changes in amino acids and the individual strains over time, but they take on new characteristics.”

With the onset of more common whole genome sequencing and recombination analysis, Dr. Calvert says there is another mechanism, and recombination seems to be a key factor.