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Wisconsin grants waiver, suspending swine testing and movement restrictions

Wisconsin agriculture officials Friday granted a waiver of the state’s swine movement rule. 

Kari Retallick with the Wisconsin Pork Association says Wisconsin was the only state with this requirement, and getting the waiver to eliminate testing and associated fees before show season was important. “They no longer have to have that extra testing so that will help with the economic burden that that swine health rule had provided.”

Retallick says they worked with state animal health officials to show the Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) and Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDv) rule wasn’t having any positive impact on swine health, and State Veterinarian Dr. Darlene Konkel granted the waiver. 

The permanent rule eliminating the extra testing and fees is expected to be finalized later this summer.