What can the swine practitioner and producer do to be proactive relative to FAD?
The efforts of the United States Department of Agriculture to keep FAD out of the United States have recently been evaluated via a process called the Animal Health Safeguarding Review. This effort utilized a broad variety of national experts, was coordinated by the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture, and can be seen at www.nasda-hq.org. Many recommendations of the safeguarding review are already being implemented, but many others will take years to initiate and even more time to become effective. Initiatives such as this are very important, but must be complemented by individual proactive preventative measures tailored to each individual production system. Swine practitioners have been promoting biosecurity for prevention of many economically important swine diseases for decades.The importance of biosecurity today is magnified to new heights. Biosecurity is no longer just an optional management practice to be considered for adoption by progressive producers, but i
Related Questions
- screen when I am submitting a query or enrolling a practitioner in the Proactive Disclosure Service Prototype (PDS 24/7 notification). Can you explain this discrepancy?
- Have there been any proactive educational efforts prepared for the individual livestock producer?
- What can the swine practitioner and producer do to be proactive relative to FAD?
