Dr. Barry Kerkaert - Applying Research to Decision Making to Maximize Returns at Pipestone

Copyright 2010 – Pipestone Veterinary Clinic, Pipestone, Minnesota

Enteric Disease Management Within the Pipestone System

Dr. Barry R. KerkaertPipestone, MN

www.pipestonesystem.com

History

• Pipestone Veterinary Clinic – 1942• Mixed animal practice

– 3 Veterinarians in 1994– 18 Veterinarians in 2012

• First managed farm in 1990• Today 46 managed sow farms

– 50% of those are filtered• Today manage 350,000 growing pigs

Our Brands:

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Pipestone – Pipestone Pipestone Veterinary Clinics–home of the Pipestone System

RockNobles Jackson Martin Faribault

Blue EarthWatonwanCottonwoodMurray

LincolnLyonRedwood

Brown

Pipestone

Independence

Copyright 2010 – Pipestone Veterinary Clinic, Pipestone, Minnesota

• Mission “Helping farmers today create the farms of

tomorrow”• Values

– Integrity– Caring– Commitment– Growth– Teamwork

Mission & Values

Copyright 2010 – Pipestone Veterinary Clinic, Pipestone, Minnesota

The Change Imperative

“When the rate of external change exceeds the rate of internal change, the end of your business is in sight.”

Jack Welch, CEO General Electric

USA Swine Industry Production Structure

• Traditional

– Family farms owned sows and land• 60 to 200 sows• Two farrowings per year• Manure applied to land• Seasonal labor

• 2012 – new

– Wide variety of ownership and size– Sow farms larger

• 1,000 to 5,000 sows breed to wean (for health reasons)• Wean 500 to 2,400 pigs per week

– Nursery Finisher or Wean to Finish • All in / All out

Evolution/Revolution to 3-Site Production

50 Years of ImprovementSwine Efficiency 1959–2009• Hogs marketed increased 29%• Breeding herd decreased 39%• Over 2X carcass wt. produced/sow/per • Feed efficiency increased 33% / lb. carcass wt.• Water use reduced 41%/lb. carcass wt.• Total land use reduced 59%

78%/1000 lb. carcass wt.

• Carbon footprint reduced 35%/lb. carcass wt.

Source: Pork Checkoff

Genetic DAUGHTER GRAIN Source NUCLEUS PRODUCTION

(CHM) Stud F-1 gilt “Feed Production MILL”

SOW FARM

NURSERY WEAN & TO FINISHER FINISH

Slaughter Plant Further

processing FRESH PROCESSED

Retail store

Farmer owns

Management Contracts

Disease

• Respiratory

• Enteric

• Systemic (bacterial)– The suis’s

Disease

• Respiratory– PRRSv– SIV– Mycoplasma– Circovirus– Bacterial (the suis’s)

• Strep suis• Actinobacillus suis• H. parasuis

PRRSv ($5 - $7 / pig)

• Objectives1. Produce and deliver negative pig

• Vaccinate if delivered to high risk area• Leave unvaccinated if in low risk area

2. Deliver a PRRSv positive vaccinated piglet• Utilize an PRRSv MLV vaccine

• Tools – Location– Prevention (filters)– Elimination

Mycoplasma / Circovirus ($2 to $7)

• Objective:– Sow farms + / - – Deliver pigs that are vaccinated and ready to grow

Swine Influenza

• Objective: – Deliver negative piglets

• Comments:– Very difficult to do consistently

ISU VDL

Dr. Jeff Lubbe BIVI

Salmonella• Stress and contamination disease• Objective:

– Mitigate stresses on pigs causing the clinical disease

• Control – Vaccine for Salmonella Choleraesuis– Feed medication and or vaccination for Salmonella

Typhimurium

Jeff Luebbe BIVI

Our Enteric Philosophy

• Control of gut– Vaccine

• Ileitis• Salmonella• E-coli

– Medication• Stategically

Today’s Feed Cost (7-20-2012)

• Corn $7.81/bu• SBM $541.00/ton• DDGS $278/ton

$127 / hd!

Pipestone SGF Wean-Finish Feed Allocations & Medication Plan

Diet Wt Range

Budget #/Hd

Medication Cost Per Ton

Cost Per Pig

N1 Pellet 12-15 2.0 Mecadox(25g/ton)/Terramycin(400g/ton) $18.68 $.02

SB NPII 15-20 6.0 Mecadox(25g/ton)/Terramycin(400g/ton) $18.68 $.06 SB NPII-B 20-27 6.0 Mecadox(25g/ton)/Terramycin(400g/ton) $18.68 $.06

SB N4 27-40 24

No Medication- Water Vaccinate - -

SB N5 40-51 19 No Medication- Water Vaccinate - -

SB GF1 51-76.4 49 Denagard (35g/ton) $15.96 $.39

SB GF2 76.4-95.9 42 Stafac 20 (10g/ton) $1.65 $.03

SB GF3 95.9-136.3 96 Stafac 20 (10g/ton) $1.65 $.08

SB GF4 136.3-177 109 Stafac 20 (10g/ton) $1.65 $.09

SB GF5 177-206 90 Stafac 20 (10g/ton) $1.65 $.07

SB GF6 206-231 78 Stafac 20 (10g/ton) $1.65 $.06 SB GF7 231-275 140 Non Medicated – Paylean (4.5 g/ton) - -

SB GF8 Step-Up 100 Non Medicated – Paylean (6.75 g/ton) TOTAL $.86

Research and Information historically

• Information– PigCHAMP– Grow – Finish

• Spread sheets or custom

• Research– On farm trials

• Has limitations

– Relationship with Universities• Vendor research

Pipestone Research Committee (2009)

• Director – Dr. Scott Dee• Members

– Dr. Joel Nerem– Dr. Spencer Wayne– Dr. Cameron Schmitt– Dr. Barry Kerkaert– Dr. Luke Minion– Dan Hanson

Research and information today

• Timely

• Precision

• Complexity

• Partners

• Collaboration

Perspective on research

• New products – Supported by data

• Avoid internal bias from experience• Limitations

– Research vs. commercial out come (70%)– Information from other systems / sources

• Value– Creation– Intellectual property

Research investment

Perspective on Partners

• Innovative

• Collaboration

• Value

• Joint mission to improve

• Not feed

Areas of interest

• Animal health

– PRRSv

– Ileitis

– Mycoplasma

– Circovirus

Areas of interest

• Bio – security measures

• Air filtration

• Manure

Areas of interest

• Genetics

• Animal welfare

• Meat quality

• Energy / Feed presentation

Most recent trial

• Ileitis vaccine trial

Comparative efficacy of Enterisol ® Ileitis versus Tylan® feed grade.

Trial Objective

• To determine if Enterisol® Ileitis vaccine performs better than Tylan® feed grade in a step down program as a way to control the effects of a Lawsonia intracellularis infection.

• A pen level study with the primary parameter being feed efficiency (FE)

Materials and Methods

•Trial conducted at Pipestone Vet Clinic research barn from 6-28 to 12-19, 2011• 2080 weaned pigs from 2 sister sow farms in the Pipestone system.•Pigs weighed and allocated to two treatment groups

Trt Trt Name Treatment Group Description

1

Enterisol

Ileitis/Stafac

40 pens of 26 pigs vaccinated with Enterisol Ileitis at day 0

and fed 10 grams Stafac per ton starting on day 40 until day

120.

2 Tylan

40 pens of 26 pigs fed 100 grams of Tylan per ton from day

40 to day 58, followed by feeding 40 grams of Tylan per ton

until day 120.

Materials and Methods

• 2-3 pigs per pen (10% of population) were inoculated with Lawsonia intracellularis gut homogenate at log 4.5 x 109

Performance Results

Response variable Enterisol Ileitis Tylan P-value1

d40-market feed to gain, lbs 2.97 3.05 0.13

d-7-126 feed to gain, lbs 2.38a

2.43b

0.05d-7-market feed to gain, lbs 2.62 2.70 0.06

0.08 / 2.70 X $127 = $3.76

Table 2. Least square means for performance data by main effect (treatment).

Vaccine Treatment

1ANOVA P-value.

ab Means with different superscripts indicate difference at P≤0.05 (Student's t).

Vaccine, Feed meds, and Treatment Costs

Table 8. Least square means for treatment cost by main effect (treatment).

Vaccine Treatment

Response variablei Enterisol Ileitis Tylan P-value1

Medication program cost per pig, ($)2 1.29a 1.54b <.0001

d-7-market injectable/water med cost per pig, ($)3 0.96 0.98 0.18

Conclusions• A Lawsonia intracellularis seeder challenge model is possible in a

large scale commercial study.

• Pigs on the Enterisol Ileitis/Stafac program had a 2.9% improvement in FE (P<0.05)

• Total return on investment favored the Enterisol Ileitis/Stafac group by $3.05.

• Today • $0.25 + $3.76 = $4.01 (vaccine and Stafac)

“Change is: often desirable, frequently necessary, always inevitable.”

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