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"This time of year there's a lot of
manure being spread and a lot of the
yards aren't that clean. As people
going from farm to farm, salesmen
or whatever, those are issues."
When working with
producers, Templeton, like
some other swine advisors,
uses a biosecurity assessment
questionnaire with a scoring system.
Categories of scoring include how
you introduce new genetic stock onto
your farm, and what things you do in
your day-to-day operations that
could put you at risk of introducing
disease into your barn. The
questionnaire also takes into account
where the barn is located because
some diseases are airborne.
Transport, though some people
might consider it part of day-to-day
operations, is included in a separate
category because of its importance.
"The point in putting the
questionnaire to people is to make
them think,' Templeton says. "What
ended up happening." she says of
one recent meeting where she used
the tool, "was that when we reviewed
"I think disease is
mentally hard on
producers."
each of the questions it generated
discussion, and that discussion starts
to be healthy."
Questions might include: "Do you
let the deadstock company come into
your yard to pick up pigs? Do you
get the transport company to wash
their trucks before they come to pick
up your market hogs?"
"Things that we wanted to
emphasize were things in day-to-day
operations that can put the herd at
risk. I think we need to de-
emphasize, based on (Dr. Amass's)
research, the controls on people
movement, which with adequate
precautions like showers and
changes of coveralls is low risk, and
put more emphasis on things in day-
to-day operations."
Because viruses can live in cold
wet weather, for instance, a worker
should not step outside the barn in
barn boots in order to tap the feed bin
to get the feed to come down. The
feed truck might have been at a farm