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Preparing your operation for PEDv

During the Purdue Extension PED conference, Extension educator Lindy Miller told attendees that proper planning for the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus can be the difference between an operation surviving a PEDv break or a break bankrupting a farm.  “You need to know it will likely affect your cash flow,” he says. “And know what that means to your equity plan in your business so you can maintain a viable business.”

Miller tells Brownfield farms that haven’t seen an outbreak with PEDv are seeing a profit and now is the time to increase prevention methods.  “It makes more sense to invest in your employees and in your animals and in prevention methods than it might be to expand or to over-extend yourself into other operations that you’re not as good at managing,” he says.

But, he says, the best place to start is with employees.