Global Warming

I had the funniest conversation with Russell Gilliam, U.S. swine business manager for Alltech. We were talking about Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus and how to prevent it, which is particularly difficult in the winter. Gilliam recommends swine producers concentrate on biosecurity and suggests that there are five very important areas that swine producers should concentrate on in order to limit exposure to PED. Those five areas are on our website

aginfo.net. Again, since PED, I guess like the flu, is more prevalent in the winter, Russell asked me a question. “How is your weather? Well we have had a bit of snow. How is yours? Well I live up in Ohio and we had about a foot of snow, now it’s gone. This week it’s 34° last weekend it was 7°. Yes you know, there are wild swings. I know. They talk about global warming. What that boils down to for me is, deal with it. When you think about it global warming started at the end of the Ice Age. What has happened in the last few years probably isn’t affecting what has been occurring over thousands of years.