USDA Grant to Help Expand Usefulness of Swine Disease Reporting System
June 27, 2023
A three-year, one-million-dollar grant from the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture will help expand the use of data collected through the Swine Disease Reporting System to identify disease trends and improve swine health
by Bruce Cochrane – Farmscape.ca
The Swine Disease Reporting System was introduced to standardise the way that U.S. veterinary diagnostic labs report diagnostic test results and allow those results to be compiled, analysed and compared.
Swine Health Information Center Executive Director Dr. Paul Sundberg says USDA has allocated one million dollars to Iowa State University and the Swine Disease Reporting program over three years.
“A portion of the grant is going to go to advanced genetic analysis, looking at the different strains of pathogens that come in”
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