2016-5-3: PEDv biosecurity funding ends

PEDv biosecurity funding ends

Tuesday, May 3rd 2016

In the fall of 2013 and through most of 2014, Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PEDv) devastated swine herds throughout the nation and killed an estimated 10 million piglets. The disease became “reportable” in June 2014, which freed up government funds to help with biosecurity costs and diagnostics associated with the virus. The USDA decided in January that it will no longer help with biosecurity payments and now in April, diagnostic testing will also be cut, reports WHO-TV in Des Moines, Iowa. That means producers will need to foot the bill.