What You Need to See at Iowa Pork Congress 2023

Jan 23, 2023

It's not too late to attend the 50th-anniversary celebration of the Iowa Pork Congress in Des Moines on Jan. 25-26 complete with cake, games, balloons, pictures and prizes in the trade show.

CHECK OUT THE STUDENT POSTER CONTEST
Attendees are encouraged to visit the poster contest on the trade show floor on Wednesday and vote for the research they find most important to them as a producer. Topics include:

"Antimicrobial susceptibility trends and genetic diversity of Brachyspira hyodysenteriae isolated from U.S. swine farms" by Maria Hakimi of the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine

"Insights into genetic basis of sow pelvic organ prolapse" by Vishesh Bhatia of the Iowa State University Department of Animal Science

"Yield and drainage water quality impacts of agricultural management practices" by Gabrielle M. Myers of the Iowa State University Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering

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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.