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August 16, 2017 — AASV Staff [AASV]
AASV's sixth salary survey of veterinary members in the United States and Canada is now complete, and a summary of the results is available for members (only) to access on the AASV website at...
August 16, 2017 — Harry Snelson [AASV]
Dr. Chris Rademacher is seeking a mixture of company veterinarians, private practitioners, and researchers to review and score abstracts for the Research Topics session at the 2018 AASV Annual...
August 16, 2017 — AASV Staff [AASV]
We've had several members volunteer to share a practice tip during the AASV's Got Talent seminar at the 2018 AASV Annual Meeting in San Diego, but we could use a few more tips to fill the seminar. So...
August 16, 2017 — AASV Staff [AASV]
Registrations for the 2017 AASV Foundation Golf Outing were due August 7, but we still have room for a few more golfers. Don't delay - sign up today by contacting the AASV office at 515-465-5255 or...
August 16, 2017 — [Research]
The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, a nonprofit organization established through bipartisan congressional support in the 2014 Farm Bill, awarded $149,000 to scientists at University of...
August 16, 2017 — [Gov.]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is publishing a paper proposing the use of a biomass denominator to adjust annual data on the amount of antimicrobials sold or distributed for use in...
August 16, 2017 — [Conf.]
Mark your calendar for Thursday, Sept. 7th at 2 p.m. EDT/1 p.m. CDT for an educational webinar brought to you by the Pork Checkoff--How to Prevent Broken Needles: Protecting People, Pigs and Pork....
August 16, 2017 — [Abs.]
The aim of this study was to characterize the plasmids carrying antimicrobial resistance (AMR) determinants in multiple Salmonella serotypes recovered from the commercial swine farms environment...
August 16, 2017 — [Welfare]
The National Pork Board has announced that its first-ever Pig Welfare Symposium will take place Nov. 7-9, 2017, in Des Moines, Iowa. The forum is designed to help improve the well-being of pigs by...
August 16, 2017 — AASV Staff [Jobs]
The Associate Editor will work closely with and have the support of an experienced publication team including the JSHAP Executive Editor, who directs the peer-review process and coordinates...
August 15, 2017 — AASV Staff [AASV]
The American Association of Swine Veterinarians (AASV) invites submissions for the Industrial Partners oral and poster sessions at the 49th AASV Annual Meeting. This is an opportunity for commercial...
August 15, 2017 — Phibro Animal Health [Jobs]
Phibro Animal Health (PAH) seeks a US Swine Technical Services Veterinarian to drive demand for PAH products into the swine industry by providing expert technical support to customers and by building...
August 14, 2017 — Paul Sundberg [Research]
The Swine Health Information Center (SHIC) recently funded a study to be conducted by Kansas State University researchers to investigate using dust samples to monitor for swine pathogens in US feed...
August 9, 2017 — Harry Snelson [AASV]
As you know, AASV represents the interests of our membership and that of the pig on a wide variety of topics. We are frequently asked to offer up some names of our members to serve on working groups,...
August 9, 2017 — AASV Staff [AASV]
Registrations for the 2017 AASV Foundation Golf Outing were due August 7, but we still have room for a few more golfers. Don't delay - sign up today by contacting the AASV office at 515-465-5255 or...
August 9, 2017 — [Students]
Veterinary student, did you shadow a swine practitioner this summer or were involved in an interesting clinical case investigation? Did you work on your veterinary skills by designing a differential...
August 9, 2017 — [Ind.]
The On Farm Swine Welfare Auditor Course conducted by the Professional Animal Auditor Certification Organization (PAACO) is the certification course to train potential swine farm auditors using the...
August 9, 2017 — [Abs.]
Commercial pigs are frequently exposed to tail mutilations in the form of preventive husbandry procedures (tail docking) or as a result of abnormal behaviour (tail biting). Although tissue and nerve...
August 9, 2017 — [Abs.]
Fecal virus shedding, seroconversion and histopathology were evaluated in 3-7-year-old gnotobiotic calves orally inoculated with porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) (9.0-9.6 log10 genomic equivalents...
August 9, 2017 — [International]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is providing a notice of evaluation, which proposes to recognize Mexico as free of classical swine fever...
August 9, 2017 — Max Rodibaugh [Meet]
The staff and Officers of AASV do a great job of maintaining contacts in Washington DC. In addition, AASV has representation on American Veterinary Medical Association's (AVMA) Legislative Advisory...
August 9, 2017 — AASV Staff [AASV]
What's one thing you do that makes you more efficient? Impresses your clients? Helps you communicate? Makes a repetitive task quicker and easier? Simplifies sample submission? Keeps your day,...
August 9, 2017 — AASV Staff [AASV]
In the effort to increase the AASV Foundation endowment to $2 million by the 2019 AASV Annual Meeting, foundation chairman Dr John Waddell has issued the AASV Foundation Past Presidents Challenge....
August 9, 2017 — Harry Snelson [OP-ED]
This week's Doc Tales is profound in its simplicity. Josh Ellingson reminds us, "Don't feed back the bad stuff."...
August 8, 2017 — AASV Staff [AASV]
The American Association of Swine Veterinarians invites participation in the "Tech Tables" technical service exhibit, held during the AASV 2018 Annual Meeting in San Diego, California. The...
August 8, 2017 — AASV Staff [AASV]
Plans are underway for the 49th annual meeting of the American Association of Swine Veterinarians (AASV), to take place March 3-6, 2018 in San Diego, California. As part of the meeting, there will be...
August 8, 2017 — AASV Staff [AASV]
The room block at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego is now open for reservations for the 2018 AASV Annual Meeting. The meeting will be held March 3-6, and AASV members who wish to stay at the...
August 8, 2017 — [Conf.]
Passion for Pigs has announced the program for its August 22 event in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Full program details are now available at www.passionforpigs.com. Registrations are requested by August 15....
August 8, 2017 —
Are you interested in submitting a case for the Leman Conference, but you're not sure how to do so? The organizing committee released additional guidelines and information to help you write your case...
August 8, 2017 — AASV Staff [AASV]
The American Association of Swine Veterinarians (AASV) invites submissions for the Industrial Partners oral and poster sessions at the 49th AASV Annual Meeting. This is an opportunity for commercial...
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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