The value proposition for precision livestock farming applied to swine disease management

A new article from the MSD Animal Health Swine Board of Experts. In this ocasion, Dr. Derald Holtkamp (Iowa State Univ.) explores how precision farming technologies will create plenty of opportunities that will change our way of raring pigs.

Arguably, producers and their veterinarians currently have a relatively poor understanding of how much disease is costing and, consequently, a poor basis on which to make profit-maximizing decisions. So how do we get better knowledge to monitor disease that is not cost-prohibitive? That is where precision livestock farming comes in.

Precision livestock farming is about finding new ways to create knowledge that will dramatically change how we manage swine disease. New technologies are coming that will make acquiring data and analyzing it easier, cheaper, and more valuable.

Read Dr. Holtkamp’s full article to better understand how can we get better knowledge that would lead to better decisions to improve profitability.

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