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November 19, 2019 — AASV Staff [AASV]
Membership renewal notices have been mailed to all Veterinarian and Affiliate members for the AASV 2020 membership year. Membership may be renewed by mail or online at...
November 19, 2019 — AASV Staff [Conf.]
Join Passion for Pigs for its popular seminar and trade show in Columbia, Missouri on December 10! Producers, veterinarians, and students are invited to register for the event, which will feature...
November 19, 2019 — AASV Staff [Conf.]
You are invited to sharpen your pig knowledge vision to 20/20 at the Pig Ski conference, February 12-14, 2020 at beautiful Copper Mountain, Colorado! Register now at pigski.com. As in the past, a...
November 19, 2019 — [Students]
Pipestone Veterinary Services is offering a paid 10-12 week summer internship for 2 veterinary students interested in swine health, production, and research. Housing will be provided, based mainly...
November 19, 2019 — [Students]
Pipestone Veterinary Services is offering an 1-2 week externship for 4th year veterinary students interested in swine health, production, research, and mix animal practice. Description: The...
November 19, 2019 — AASV Staff [AASV]
The AASV Foundation and Merck Animal Health are pleased to announce the continuation of the AASVF-Merck Animal Health Veterinary Student Scholarship Program. Ten $5000 scholarships will be awarded to...
November 19, 2019 — [AASV]
Dr. Alex Hintz has joined Novus International as the North American Technical Services Manager - Swine. Dr. Hintz joins Novus after working with Pharmgate Animal Health as a technical services...
November 19, 2019 — Pharmgate Animal Health [Jobs]
We're looking for a full-time, home-based Technical Services Veterinarian who will be responsible for launching and supporting our innovative therapeutic product lines in the USA and internationally....
November 18, 2019 — Abbey Canon [AASV]
AASV is pleased to participate in World Antibiotic Awareness Week November 18-24, 2019. World Antibiotic Awareness Week is a global initiative to raise awareness of the health risks of antibiotic...
November 18, 2019 — [Abs.]
Antimicrobial resistance is increasing within the porcine industry with consequential high impact on human health, leading to a need for new antimicrobials. Lately, the scientific community has...
November 18, 2019 — [Hum.H.]
CDC released its second 10_USCDC426-DHQP-DM12788&deliveryName=USCDC_1164-DM12956" target="_blank">Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States (AR Threats Report). The report provides new...
November 18, 2019 — Pipestone Veterinary Services [Jobs]
Pipestone Veterinary Services of Orange City, Iowa, seeks an Associate Swine Veterinarian to provide outstanding veterinary care and service to the patients and clients of Pipestone Veterinary...
November 15, 2019 — [Welfare]
North Carolina State University is conducting research on pain management for piglet castration. The end goal of the project is to identify barriers and implement solutions to practical on-farm pain...
November 15, 2019 — [Welfare]
The connection between animal and human health is hard to deny. In fact, that relationship has gained great momentum in the past 10 years as the One Health concept, a worldwide strategy for expanding...
November 15, 2019 — [Abs.]
Antimicrobials are the most commonly prescribed drugs in the swine industry. While antimicrobials are an effective treatment for serious bacterial infections, their use has been associated with major...
November 15, 2019 — [Students]
The Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine (ISU CVM) is seeking veterinary student applicants for the Swine Veterinary Internship Program (SVIP). There will be several openings for...
November 14, 2019 — [Conf.]
Workshops to help pork producers prepare and protect themselves from foreign animal disease will be available around the state of Iowa in December 2019, hosted by the Iowa Pork Industry Center at...
November 13, 2019 — AASV Staff [AASV]
Membership renewal notices have been mailed to all Veterinarian and Affiliate members for the AASV 2020 membership year. Membership may be renewed by mail or online at...
November 13, 2019 — [Conf.]
The American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP) Veterinary Practice Sustainability (VPS) committee has received a second grant for more than $238,000 from the USDA National Institute of Food...
November 13, 2019 — Harry Snelson [OP-ED]
The origin of Doc Tales was the opportunity to share some humorous or profound statements overheard at various meetings. This week, I'm going to return to those roots. I recently attended the US...
November 12, 2019 — AASV Staff [AASV]
AASV members, take note: Phibro Animal Health Corporation will match up to $25,000 of member contributions made to the AASV Foundation Endowment in 2019! Over the past 3 years, Phibro has contributed...
November 12, 2019 — AASV Staff [AASV]
For the second year, the AASV Foundation will award a $5000 scholarship to an AASV member engaged in private practice who is between 2 and 5 years post-graduation from veterinary school and who...
November 12, 2019 — AASV Staff [AASV]
Do you know an AASV member whose dedication to the association and the swine industry is worthy of recognition? The AASV Awards Committee would like your help in identifying members who are well...
November 12, 2019 — AASV Staff [AASV]
The American Association of Swine Veterinarians Foundation is pleased to offer the Hogg Scholarship, established to honor the memory of longtime AASV member and swine industry leader Dr Alex Hogg....
November 12, 2019 — AASV Staff [AASV]
As part of its mission to fund research with direct application to the profession, the American Association of Swine Veterinarians Foundation is accepting research proposals to be considered for...
November 12, 2019 — [Students]
Pipestone Veterinary Services is offering a paid 10-12 week summer internship for 2 veterinary students interested in swine health, production, and research. Housing will be provided, based mainly...
November 12, 2019 — [Students]
Pipestone Veterinary Services is offering an 1-2 week externship for 4th year veterinary students interested in swine health, production, research, and mix animal practice. Description: The...
November 12, 2019 — [Abs.]
This project investigates the macroepidemiological aspects of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) RNA detection by veterinary diagnostic laboratories (VDLs) for the period...
November 12, 2019 — Country View Family Farms [Jobs]
Country View Family Farms is hiring three Regional Field Veterinarians for operations in Indiana, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. In this role, you will be responsible for the on-farm veterinary...
November 12, 2019 — Tyson Foods, Inc. [Jobs]
Tyson Foods Inc, the world's largest protein producer and the second-largest food production company in the Fortune 500, is looking for a candidate to join our Pork Group Technical Services...
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Category abbreviations: AASV=Membership information, announcements, and other information from the American Association of Swine Veterinarians; Abs.=Abstracts from journal articles of general interest to swine veterinarians.; ALERT=Used to create email alerts; An.H.=Animal Health; Conf.=Conference announcements and other continuing education opportunities; FAD="Foreign" Animal Disease and other news most significant to regions outside of North America.; Food=Food Safety; Gov.=Information about legislation, regulations, and rulemaking that may affect the swine industry or swine veterinarians.; Hum.H.=Human health; Ind.=News from the pork industry, including NPPC and Pork Board activities.; International=Information regarding swine health and production internationally.; Jobs=Position announcements, primarily seeking swine veterinarians.; Meet=Provides a short synopsis of meetings of importance to swine veterinarians.; News=Agriculture related news events.; Nutr.=Swine nutrition; OP-ED=Opinion or editorial articles expressing the thoughts of individual Association members.; Pharm.=Pharmaceuticals and biologicals; PRRS=Articles from the AASV PRRS Task Force; Practice=Information associated with practice management or development.; Research=Research topics of interest to swine veterinarians.; Students=Information of interest to AASV student members.; USDA=US Dept. of Agriculture activities of interest to swine veterinarians.; Welfare=Animal welfare issues