Clusteranalysis as a swine farm qualifying method

Representations of swine flu: perspectives from a Malaysian pig farm.

Novel influenza viruses are seen, internationally, as posing considerable health challenges, but public responses to such viruses are often rooted in cultural representations of disease and risk. However, little research has been conducted in locations associated with the origin of a pandemic. We examined representations and risk perceptions associated with swine flu amongst 120 Malaysian pig f...

Farm Corporations as Agropolitan Development in Iran

This article wants to propose this theory that Farm Corporations are agropolitan development models in Iran. As over-concentrating investments to the urban areas did not lead to a trickledown effect to the rural areas. To the extreme, there are ideas to minimize linkages with the urban economy, and to make the rural areas pursue self-sufficiency by maximizing its potentials. However, against th...

Investigational use of artificial insemination in farm swine.

INTRODUCTION Although artificial insemination (AI) in swine has been developed commercially in many parts of the world (Norwayl, Ja-pan2, Belgium3 , France 4 , England 5 , and some areas in the United States 6), it· has not been used extensively in Iowa on a commercial basis. The application of this technique for experimental purposes, together with information reported in the literature, illum...

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Virus on Commercial Swine Farm, Thailand

A swine influenza outbreak occurred on a commercial pig farm in Thailand. Outbreak investigation indicated that pigs were co-infected with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus and seasonal influenza (H1N1) viruses. No evidence of gene reassortment or pig-to-human transmission of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus was found during the outbreak.

Contemporary Issues in Farm Animal Housing and Management Swine