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Missouri producer works to keep PEDv away

Scott Phillips, Missouri pork producer and delegate at 2014 National Pork ForumA Missouri hog producer has not had the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus hit his herd and says he’s going to great lengths to keep it that way.

Scott Phillips’ hog farm is south of Kansas City, in Drexel, Missouri.  He told Brownfield Ag News at the 2014 National Pork Forum“I feel blessed that we have not had PED yet. I hope we don’t but that is a MASSIVE concern for us.”

He says vehicles are monitored closely, “About a year ago we washed all our trucks coming from the packer so nothing comes even close to any of our farms without it being washed and sanitized.”  They’ve changed foot traffic on the farm so no employees are exposed to traffic from any other hog farm… Phillips says they are greatly increasing employee awareness, “Thursday noon my mom cooks lunch for everybody at the farm and we talk about it every Thursday at noon on what we can do to prevent us getting PED anyway.”

Phillips is vice chairman of the Missouri Pork Producers Association.

Interview with Scott Phillips (3:00 mp3)

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