Nebraska Pork Producers Association to Sponsor Reporting Workshops

September 10, 2014 — 

On June 5, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack issued a Federal Order requiring pork producers, veterinarians and diagnostic labs to report presumptive or confirmed positive occurrences of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDV), Porcine Deltacoronavirus, (PDCoV) or other novel swine enteric coronaviruses that meet the case definition.

The Nebraska Pork Producers Association along with the Nebraska Soybean Board in cooperation with the Nebraska Department of Agriculture will sponsor 4 PEDV Reporting Workshops. Dr. Roger Dudley, DVM with the Department of Agriculture will familiarize producers with the details of the Federal Order.

Over twenty-six million dollars in funding has been made available to combat swine enteric coronaviruses. These funds are for: (a) biosecurity/disinfections payments to producers; (b) herd plan payments to vets; (c) research; (d) grants to states; (e) diagnostic testing. Financial assistance is available to producers for outbreaks occurring from June of 2014 to September of 2015.

Workshops will be held on: September 15th at the Holiday Inn in Kearney; September 16th at the Holiday Inn Express in Beatrice; September 17th at the Holiday Inn Express in Norfolk and on September 19th, immediately following the NPPA Board of Directors Meeting, at the Holiday Inn Express in Columbus. Each workshop will run approximately 2 hours and will begin at 5:30 p.m. at Kearney, Beatrice, and Norfolk and at 2:15 p.m. at the Columbus location.

The PEDV Reporting Workshops are FREE of charge. Registration is available on-line at http://www.nepork.org or by calling (402) 472-2563.