AgView® is the Path to Protection™ promoting business continuity by uniquely making disease traceback and pig movement data available to animal health officials. This Checkoff-funded opt-in technology receives feedback from users about advancements. Patrick Webb, DVM, assistant chief veterinarian for the National Pork Board, says AgView® has streamlined the multistep swine production health plans.

“Last year, we launched a swine production health plan feature in AgView® that allows all of this stuff to be done in AgView®, and everybody in the approval process can see what everybody else is doing. It’s kind of like, I like to call it a Teams meeting for developing a swine production health plan or these commuter agreements.”

From multiple signatures through emails to a unified approach in a single tool, AgView, and the swine production health plan data connect the dots and leverage the information for actionable and timely intelligence to improve traceability.

“That’s the thing that state animal health officials like, is access to the data as the animals are moving versus a report that may be provided to them at the end of the month of what moved right, so it enhances traceability because it makes movements more real time for the state animal health official.”

AgView has an endemic disease implication.

While AgView® was originally developed to be able to share traceability data with state animal health officials so they could have better situational awareness in the case of a disease outbreak of classical swine fever, African swine fever, or foot and mouth disease, the same backbone that was built to do that can assist producers and veterinarians with endemic diseases with just a little bit of modification to the development of AgView. And so, we’re looking at, what we can build into AgView that would be helpful for endemic disease response for an attending veterinarian or for a producer that may have PERS or influenza moving through their production system. How can we take things that are already currently being put together? Iowa State does a nice job. They have a disease status map that they put out. Can we overlay that and tag you, so people can understand disease pressure by region or by individual site or site status? You know, those are things that we had built into AgView specifically for state vets for foreign animal disease, but it has a direct application to the producer site if we, what I like to call trick it out a little bit more on the endemic disease.”

Producers can join the approximately 1,400 current users and create a free AgView account at porkcheckoff.com. Again, that’s Patrick Webb with the National Pork Board.