Vincent ter Beek
Editor and Journalist at Pig Progress
Journalist and editor of @PigProgress, multimedia B2B title on the global pig 🐷 business. Loves cats 🐱, travelling ✈, history 🏰, languages 🌍 and football ⚽.
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1 week ago |
pigprogress.net | Vincent ter Beek
Just when the waves of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreaks appeared to have calmed down in Central Europe, Hungary reported another outbreak on a cattle farm. The outbreak occurred on a cattle farm near the town Rábapordány in the province , about 30 km south of the rest of the outbreaks, which form a cluster at the border between Hungary and Slovakia. As the virus can also occur in pigs, any developments in the spread of the virus is being watched by the pig community too.
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1 week ago |
pigprogress.net | Vincent ter Beek
Artificial intelligence could revolutionise the pig industry. Yet how exactly it can be reliably applied, is often relatively unclear and perhaps also a touch intimidating. “Telehealth” and “telemedicine” might be an area where easy gains can be made. Can the vet stay at home? It is not too difficult to think of situations where it would actually come in handy that a veterinarian does not have to physically show up at a farm.
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1 week ago |
pigprogress.net | Vincent ter Beek
Achieving better performance is possible when the conditions on-farm are optimal. That is why top-level cleaning and disinfection matters very much – and this will be the exact topic of an upcoming Pig Progress webinar, held on Thursday, April 24 at 3pm CET. {Create buttonClick here to register for the pig hygiene webinar on April 24}The webinar will be held in cooperation with biosecurity company Cid Lines, an Ecolab Company.
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2 weeks ago |
pigprogress.net | Vincent ter Beek
Every pig, poultry and dairy producer will be familiar with it. A high mortality amongst the herd or flock – what pathogens are currently troubling me? The laboratory Poulpharm, headquartered in Belgium, can offer answers by running diagnostic tests. The internationally operating lab offers a wide range of veterinary services, from necropsies to laboratory services as well as contract research or development and registration.
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4 weeks ago |
pigprogress.net | Vincent ter Beek
As time moves on, many farms in Asia as well as Central Europe have had the sad experience of African Swine Fever visiting their farms. Often, something can be said about biosecurity being sub-optimal. But at the finisher farm of Pork & Co, 80 km from Bucharest, Romania – even for humans biosecurity levels are high. How did the virus ever manage to do it? “This is it, compartment 11, pen 4. This is where it started.” Veterinarian Dr Adrian Balaban rests with both hands on the side of the pen wall.
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