Seneca Valley virus emerging issue for U.S. swine industry
Five exhibition and one commercial herds in Iowa have been diagnosed with Seneca Valley virus (SVV), and at least two more states have reported outbreaks in the last five years.
With corn nearing its harvest stage in Ohio and soybeans 89 percent completed, oats 96 percent along and second cutting of hay 95 percent done, other crops are starting to take the stage.
As harvest kicked into high gear across Illinois, growers are seeing how yields could vary greatly thanks to Mother Nature’s wet imprint left at the start of the growing season.
The dust is flying as combines kick it into gear in Michigan, with soybean harvest underway. Sunny days in the 70s and cool nights in the 50s was perfect weather to begin.
A windy, warm and mostly dry week aided crop maturity for the one ending Sept. 20, according to the Iowa Crop & Weather report, with growers preparing farm equipment for the upcoming harvest.
