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Missouri hog farmer ups biosecurity

A Missouri hog farmer says they’re doing everything they can to try and keep the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus away from their herd.  Rick Rehmeier has a one-thousand sow farrow to finish operation near Augusta in eastern Missouri…

“We are cleaning the trucks, having them disinfected. When the feed trucks and other trucks come on the farm they’re disinfecting their tires.  We’re doing whatever WE can to stop it on our end.”

Rehmeier’s farm is in mostly-urban St. Charles County so when it comes to any neighboring operations that have been hit by PEDv, he tells Brownfield Ag News,“The neighbors here close by, we have very few hog farms close. The closest known case that I know of is Bowling Green, Missouri, close to us.”

Rehmeier has several other hog operations in the area.  He row-crops 23-hundred acres of corn, beans and wheat.

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