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dustry, other groups were invited
because infection can be tran
smitted to other species and cause
fatalities.
The sum total of some two hours
of discussion on Wednesday was
the calling of a second meeting for
this coming Wednesday morning to
precede an Animal Health Ad
visory Committee meeting
scheduled at PDA at 1 p.m.
Dr. Max Van Buskirk Jr., of the
BAI, told the Pork Producers to
carry the ball to get the various
livestock segments together and
arrive at a concensus recom
mendation on how to proceed.
Repeatedly, at Wednesday’s
session Henkel and ether pork
producers asked Van Buskirk to
take action on its request to
rescind the current PRV program,
particularly the mandatory
depopulation. Wednesday’s
meeting had been called by PDA in
response to a letter from the Pork
Producers Council asking for that
action.
“We are not prepared to do that
today and will take it under ad
visement,’’ Van Buskirk said.
He also indicated that any state
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response would be to recom
mendations from the entire
livestock industry and not just the
Pork Producers Council.
Results of a survey of the
economic consequences of
depopulation were presented at
Wednesday’s session by the
Lancaster-Chester Swine
Producers Assn. The survey in
cluded 16 operations who have
been depopulated or are in the
process of depopulating. Ten are
farrow to finish and six are farrow
only.
The farrow to finish operations
range from 80 to 300 sows and the
farrow only from 100 to 370 sows.
Total sow inventory of all 16
operations is 3,312. Mark
Nestleroth, spokesman for those
hit by PRV, said hd believed this
total was approximately half of the
6,000 sows believed to be included
in total depopulation efforts to
date.
The survey cites a loss per sow
unit average for both types of
operations of $494.38. Ranges of
loss for individual operations were
from a low of $269 per sow unit to a
high of $B7B per sow unit, depen
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“We have had several with
losses over $200,000,” Nestleroth
said.
“It’s depopulating us as fast as it
is the pigs,” producers said at the
session.
Producers also presdhted
petitions from some 130 producers,
representing about 7,000 sows,
including a number with dairy
operations too, calling for the
rescinding of the mandatory
depopulation.
The producers called for a
middle-of-the-road approach of
rescinding the mandatory
depopulation, but keeping the
quarantine program to identify
infected herds but allow continued
operation under quarantine to
minimize financial losses.
Here are some comments by
other participants in the session:
-Dr. John Cable, head of the
swine division of BAI, outlined the
history of PRV in Pa. since the
initial outbreak in February of
1980. Quarantine figures showed a
decline into last year when the
mandatory depopulation and
permit requirements were in-
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small number of continuing in
fected herds.
But this past winter - January
through March - quarantines
increased again until the total as of
Nov. 1 still stood at 16 breeding
herds and 13 feed lots, all of which
are tied together. Ten of the
breeding herds are pretty well
depopulated, Dr. Cable said, and
six have a ways to go yet.
But, the producers pointed out,
the underground activities are
clouding a true picture of the
number of herds that are actually
infected with PRV.
-Dr. Max Van Buskirk - “We
found it has been difficult to
contain the virus with just a
quarantine program. We have the
opportunity to eliminate it while
it’s still a manageable problem.
The only way to avoid becoming
another lowa is to do something
about bio-security - the cleaning
and disinfecting of vehicles is a
weakness in our program.”
--Jerry Clemens, Hatfield
Packing: “We’ve been catching
flak from clean producers because
of taking permitted animals. We
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-Penn State Extension Vet
Larry Hutchinson of the Pa.
Veterinary Medical Assn.: “We’ve
changed our position and now
favor some use of a kill vaccine in
known positive quarantined herds
to help reduce the spread of the
virus within that operation. We
also favor some indemnity paid for
breeding stock only in operations
following an approved control
program.”
--Terry Sheetz, state
representative and Lancaster
County swine producer who has
been hit with PRV: “I’m totally
opposed to the elimination of any
kind of quarantine program.
Looking at the Avian influenza and
the Scheps dairy payments, you
could say we’re being short
changed as hog producers. But we
in the swine industry must take the
initiative; we just can’t keep going
to the public trough for financial
help from the state.”
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