Year Awarded 2024
Total award amount $171,985
Location Pipestone, MN
Program Wean-to-Harvest Biosecurity Program
Matching Funders Swine Health Information Center and the Pork Checkoff
Grantee Institution Pipestone Research
This project seeks to understand the cost of common diseases detected in grow-finish hogs through quantification of disease outcome indicators, such as mortality and weight gain. Costs of disease will be compared to costs required for implementation of different biosecurity practices to provide producers an objective understanding of the potential opportunity cost forfeited through poor biosecurity.