Farmscape Canada

 


Audio 
Audio Manitoba Listen
Audio Saskatchewan Listen
Alberta Pork Telephone Town Hall 43:37 Listen
Dr. Chris Byra 21:53 Listen

Rate this Article:

Name:
Email:
Comments:




Printer Friendly Version
Canada-West Swine Health Intelligence Network Provide Early Warning of Changes in Swine Health
Dr. Chris Byra - Canada-West Swine Health Intelligence Network

Farmscape for August 25, 2016

The Canada-West Swine Health Intelligence Network's main role is to provide an early warning of changes in the health status of western Canada's swine herd.
The Canada-West Swine Health Intelligence Network is one of a number of regional bodies created to compile and share information on the health of the swine population.
The network and its role in helping pork producers deal with disease challenges was discussed yesterday as part of Alberta Pork's August Telephone Town Hall.
Canada-West Swine Health Intelligence Network Manager Dr. Chris Byra says participants include producers, the provincial pork organizations, practicing veterinarians and swine health experts.

Clip-Dr. Chris Byra-Canada-West Swine Health Intelligence Network:
What we're trying to do is pull the information of what's been going on in the immediate past but also in the last quarter or so on a routine basis and be able to share that information with everybody who needs to know and help to make decisions on the farm and in research and in other areas.
Pulling this information together, we're doing this from a number of sources.
We review what laboratories have seen in the previous three months, we review what veterinarians think is going on.
We have a clinical impressions survey that we send out and on there are a list of the most common diseases that we see and veterinarians indicate whether they see it in no farms or a few farms, like rarely see it, or they see it quite commonly or really commonly.
So that clinical impression survey then forms the basis of what veterinarians are thinking at the time and they also indicate whether they think the disease is stable or whether maybe it's decreasing or we're seeing it increase this quarter.
The value of the whole exercise is that we have a measure of what's changing in real time from a large number of practices, enough to represent the industry and that's our goal at this point.

Dr. Byra says the effort is aimed at the producer, both in terms of controlling health and maintaining open markets.
For Farmscape.Ca, I'm Bruce Cochrane.


       *Farmscape is a presentation of Sask Pork and Manitoba Pork

© Wonderworks Canada 2016
Home   |   News   |   Archive   |   Today's Script   |   About Us   |   Sponsors  |   Links   |   Newsletter  |   RSS Feed
www.farmscape.com © 2000-2019  |  Swine Health   |   Privacy Policy  |   Terms Of Use  |  Site Design