2021 Presentations

Please note: Not all presenters have chosen to make their video available. 

Saturday, September 18, 2021

Reproduction Workshop: Back to the basics: Improved reproductive management of the breeding herd

• Individual gilt birth weight, litter birth weight phenotype and effective gilt development programs, Jennifer Patterson

• Gilt puberty, subsequent fertility and incidence of silent heat in response to boar exposure and hormone induction, Rob Knox

• Industry perspective: Challenges with implementing proper gilt management strategies and using research to guide decisions, Ashley DeDecker

• Industry perspective: Challenges in implementing gilt management programs, using records to measure and manage performance, Ross Mencke and Dave Wade

• Body condition loss of young sows during lactation: consequences for post-weaning reproductive processes and performance, Nicoline Soede

Geeks to Geeks Workshop: Untangling transport data with network analysis

• Applications of network analysis to animal movement data, Kim VanderWaal

• 1:30 Going with the flow: Getting started with network analysis, Dennis Makau

• Rolling in the Midwest: Understanding vehicles movement patterns within a swine system, Catalina Picasso-Risso

• Modeling African swine fever spread in networks and effectiveness of control strategies, Gustavo Machado

• 3:40 Integrating genetic and animal movement data to re-construct transmission networks, Nakarin Pamornchainavakul

Sunday, September 19, 2021

Carlos Pijoan SDEC Symposium-Trends in Mycoplasma and influenza elimination

• Mycoplasma elimination: A historical perspective, Paul Yeske

• A system wide effort to eliminate Mycoplasma: how to get started?, Jeremy Pittman

• Diagnostics approaches towards the end of Mycoplasma elimination projects, Amanda Sponheim

• Where do we go from here on Myco elimination?, Maria Pieters

• Foundational knowledge to consider influenza control and elimination projects, Montse Torremorell

• Regional approaches to control influenza, Susan Detmer

• Pig and people management practices to wean influenza negative pigs, Gustavo Lopez-Moreno

• Putting all pieces together to eliminate influenza from sow farms, Cameron Schmitt

Clinical Cases and Problem-Solving Skills by DVM Students

• Evaluating the efficacy of CURIS® Decontamination fogger in a truck cab and in a mock C&D room against PRRSV 1-4-4 L1C variant, Madison Durflinger

• Emerging Atypical Porcine Pestivirus (APPV) in a Midwestern sow farm, Isaac Goldner

• Evaluation of how false Mhp positive tracheobronchial swabs led to a system-wide Mhp naive gilt vaccination strategy analysis, Megan Kellen

• The effect of dilution solution and storage conditions on lung homogenate for Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae exposure, Megan McMahon

• African Swine Fever: Surveillance Diagnostics, Lindsay Miller

• Evaluation of potential areas of disease spread at truck washes using Glo Germ detection, Katie Parker

• Investigation of ultraviolet C (UVC) doses in homemade UVC chambers with items commonly used on swine farms, Kaci Way

Research Highlights

• Assessment of the relationship between breeding herd PRRSV occurrence and manure pumping events in the U.S., Carles Vilalta

• A double intervention to stabilize porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome - PRRS in a one site farm with continuous flow, Mishelle Moral

• Feed mill and swine production site investigations after several outbreaks of porcine deltacoronavirus, C. Grace Elijah

• Evaluating the use of geofencing to characterize networks of swine facilities within production systems under field conditions, Nicholas Black

• Heterologous prime-boost vaccination expands cell-mediated immunity targets for influenza, Lucina Galina

• Prescription platform vaccines: Next-Generation technology combats emerging diseases, Mike Roof

• Rethinking the uncertainty of African swine fever virus contamination in feed ingredients and risk of introduction into the United States, Rachel Schambow

• Antiviral effects of glycerol monolaurate on wild-type African swine fever virus in primary swine cells, Charles Elrod

• Antiviral effects of kaempferol on African swine fever virus infection, Charles Elrod

Monday, September 20, 2021

Keynote Presentations

• Clemens Food Group: A unique approach to creating value, Josh Rennells - VIDEO

• Insights gained from the field of virus ecology and evolution provides new tools to mitigate against the impact of African Swine Fever virus, Declan Schroeder - VIDEO

Breakout Sessions; 10:30-12:00

Preparing for the next disease threat(s) I

• How the lessons learned from the ASF Vietnam projects can help us in the US response, Paul Sundberg - VIDEO

• Identification and prioritization of FAD biosecurity gaps in the U.S. pork industry, Solenne Costard - VIDEO

• Lessons learned from COVID that apply to FAD responses - Views from VDLs, Jerry Torrison - VIDEO

PRRS: Current US epidemics, virus characterization, spread and control

• PRRS Occurrence in the U.S. Breeding Herd: An overview, Cesar Corzo - VIDEO

• Emergence and spread of PRRS virus sub-lineages, Kim VanderWaal - VIDEO

• Characterization of the current PRRS Lineage 1C 1-4-4 Outbreak, Mariana Kikuti - VIDEO

• Overview of the Wisconsin PRRS control program, Julie McGwin

The motivations, metrics, and current status of sustainable pork production 

• We Care – The pork industry’s sustainability platform, Brett Kaysen - VIDEO

• Actual data on sustainability metrics: Minnesota Pork pilot projects, Lauren Servick - VIDEO

• Sustainability approaches and perspectives, Erin Cortus - VIDEO

Managing preweaning mortality: new approaches for old issues 

• Alternative production methods for effective management increased litter size, Mark Schwartz - VIDEO

• Cross-fostering learnings and implications, Caleb Shull - VIDEO

• No pig left behind: Rethinking our approach to pre-weaning mortality, Seth Krantz - VIDEO

Breakout Sessions; 1:30-3:00

Preparing for the next disease threat(s) II

• How AgView could support risk based decision making in future emerging and foreign animal disease investigations and outbreaks, Patrick Webb - VIDEO NOT AVAILABLE 

• Using response lessons to shape preparedness plans: Minnesota’s pandemic experience, Lucia Hunt - VIDEO NOT AVAILABLE 

• Considerations for feed ingredients of non-animal origin being imported from ASFV endemic regions, Olivia Harrison - VIDEO

Diagnostic investigations

• Diagnostic approaches: Start with the basics, Albert Rovira - VIDEO

• Tracking an outbreak strain of Steptococcus suis within a production system, Brian Roggow & Matt Sturos - VIDEO

• Consensus on diagnostic criteria for PCV3-associated diseases: Are we there yet?, Fabio Vannucci - VIDEO NOT AVAILABLE 

Occupational and Public Health

• Novel AMR patterns in Salmonella - new threats or deja vu all over again, Liz Wagstrom - VIDEO

• Innovations in multistate outbreak investigations and lessons learned, Megin Nichols - VIDEO

• MRSA colonization and health risks in swine veterinarians and companion animal veterinarians, Peter Davies - VIDEO

Managing grow-finish mortality: breaking data silos and using new technologies

• Revealing causal associations and forecasting productivity from consolidated datasets, Daniel Linhares - VIDEO

• Uses of video cameras to investigate and solve problems, Andy Jakubowski - VIDEO

• What do you do with all this information? Tom Stein - VIDEO

Breakout Sessions; 3:30-5:00

Compartmentalization for the control of ASF and ASF in the Dominican Republic

• ASF in the Dominican Republic: knowns and unknowns after a field visit, Andres Perez - VIDEO NOT AVAILABLE 

• Introduction to compartmentalization, Egan Brockhoff - VIDEO

• Applications of compartmentalization, Krista Howden - VIDEO

Mycoplasma

• Diagnostic problems with unexpected positive PCRs, Melissa Hensch - VIDEO

• Lab experiences with unexpected positives, Albert Canturri - VIDEO

• A comprehensive look into swine lameness cases and Mycoplasma hyosynoviae, Beatriz Garcia Morante - VIDEO

Threats and opportunities to pig production

• Pork’s Opportunity to Differentiate from the Alternatives, Angie Krieger - VIDEO

• US Swine Health Improvement Plan implementation and next steps, Tyler Holck - VIDEO

• What happened with the increased spread of ASF in Asia: Are we ready? Jose Manuel Sanchez Vizcaino - VIDEO

Understanding transmission of influenza at the pigs and people interface and impact of vaccines on virus diversity

• Human-to-swine transmission and subsequent evolution of H1N1 pandemic 2009 lineage influenza A viruses in U.S swine, Alexey Markin - VIDEO

• Understanding risks of influenza transmission between pigs and farm workers, Gustavo Lopez-Moreno - VIDEO NOT AVAILABLE 

• Impact of swine influenza vaccination on virus reassortment and genetic diversity, Chong Li - VIDEO

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Keynote Presentations

• New vaccines and new vaccination strategies in pigs, Volker Gerdts - VIDEO

• A very different future coming for pork producers, Dennis DiPietre - VIDEO

Breakout Sessions; 10:30-12:00

Risk-based disease control

• How are proactive risk assessments beneficial for disease preparedness and response? Dana Cole - VIDEO

• What is risk analysis and how it is applied by the different animal health sectors? Daniella Schettino - VIDEO

• Why is field data better than experimental data when making risk-based decisions? Amos Ssematimba - VIDEO

• The pigs on the truck go round and round– The importance of risk communication to truckers, Kaitlyn St. Charles - VIDEO

• Staying in contact with all the key players of the disease response: right time, right place, right content, right people, Carie Alexander - VIDEO

• Mitigating the risk of ASF entry into boar studs in the USA, Miranda Medrano - VIDEO

• Making risk-based decisions with imperfect testing, Marie Culhane - VIDEO NOT AVAILABLE 

The dynamic nature of infectious diseases in swine production systems

• Post-epidemic dynamics of PEDV in the U.S:. Current trends and patterns, Dennis Makau - VIDEO

• Overview of PDCoV occurrence in the U.S., Catalina Picasso - VIDEO

• Update on the epidemiology and herd dynamics of Senecavirus A, Guilherme Preis - VIDEO

• How many different PRRSV can be found in farms in a single sampling event and overtime? Andreia Arruda - VIDEO

Proposition 12: legal update, getting ready and impact on the markets 

• Update on Proposition 12 and other legislative initiatives, Michael Formica - VIDEO NOT AVAILABLE 

• Getting farms Prop 12 ready, Bill Hollis - VIDEO

• Impact of Proposition 12 to producers, consumers and the swine industry, Steve Malakowsky - VIDEO

Feeding sows properly: current issues and solutions 

• Dynamic approach to maximize profitability of nutrition programs for modern sows, David Rosero - VIDEO

• What is on the horizon for feeding sows? Laura Greiner - VIDEO

• Dietary zinc supplementation during gestation for improved piglet survival: a practical approach, Kelsey Hammers - VIDEO

Wrap-Up Session; 12:10-1:00

• PRRSV 144: A rapid response to a national crisis, Scott Dee - VIDEO

• Where do we go from here? Panel discussion, Paul Ruen, Egan Brockhoff and Noel Williams - VIDEO NOT AVAILABLE