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April mortality rate of 6.12% was the high month's average for 2022. Are we seeing the grow/finish impact of the PRRS Lineage 1C 1-4-4 strain?

Pandemic virus had a direct impact across the pork industry, especially on pig performance.

Bradley Eckberg, MetaFarms | May 05, 2021 When the March 2020 outbreak of COVID-19 occurred, life, as we knew it, was destined to change and impact everyone’s way of life. The extent of the impact on the swine industry would not be felt until April 2020 when the first packing plants started to shut down due to employee health safety concerns. Unfortunately, pork producers are used to disruptions in their production pipeline, with swine health breaks being one of the main causes. These issues are usually isolated to individual companies rather than an entire industry, an industry that sends ...

Bradley Eckberg, MetaFarms | Apr 07, 2021 In March of 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. On March 10, 2020, several states made proclamation of a State of Emergency that implemented rules and recommendations to slow the spread of COVID-19. With the unknown uncertainty of how, and when, COVID-19 would impact the pork industry, the answer came a lot quicker, and the effect was felt sooner than the industry was prepared for. On April 7, 2020, the first temporary closure was a Tyson pork plant located in Columbus Junction, Iowa.  Two days later, the West Liberty ...