Growing PRRS losses cost pork producers

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome caused an estimated $1.2 billion per year in lost production in the U.S. pork industry from 2016 to 2020, an 80% increase from a decade earlier, according to a new analysis by an Iowa State University expert.The viral disease has been present in U.S. swine herds since the mid-1980s and remains a growing threat, Derald Holtkamp, professor of veterinary diagnostic and production animal medicine, said in a university news release.“After 40 years o