A US$1.8m expansion of SDSU's Swine Education and Research Facility, paid for entirely by the state's corn, soybean, pork and livestock groups, lifts capacity to about 1,800 head by mid-October so more nursery and finishing trials can answer producers' questions.
SAPPO's 2026 AGM heard that since November 2025 the industry has handled the country's largest African swine fever outbreak and 17 FMD incidents in commercial piggeries; revised Section 9 controls came in July, 200,000 vaccine doses were logged on its World of Pork platform, global location numbers
The chair of NFU Scotland's pigs committee, who shut units of 650 and 900 sows three years ago, will empty his final unit by February 2027 after losing £100,000 a month; he is keeping three staff to finish bought-in weaners and urges independent producers to stand behind their marketing co-operative
At the 2026 Nebraska Pork Conference the National Pork Board's chief veterinarian said newer PRRS strains are more pathogenic and harder to eliminate, proposed wiping out PED within ten years as a first step, and a Nebraska start-up described environmental sampling that gives a four-day warning.
LivestockThe project will develop multiplex tests that detect several swine viruses at once, set up a national proficiency programme so veterinary labs test to one standard, and build a secure national database of disease and virus activity, with the Canadian Pork Council as partner.
