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Adoption of Secure Pork Supply Plan Biosecurity by U.S. Swine Producers
Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • Christopher C. Pudenz, Iowa State University
  • Lee L. Schulz, Iowa State University
  • Glynn T. Tonsor, Kansas State University
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
5-1-2019
DOI
10.3389/fvets.2019.00146
Abstract

There is mounting concern about the negative animal health and supply chain consequences of animal disease outbreaks in the United States. Recent disease outbreaks have drawn attention to the need for additional understanding of biosecurity efforts to reduce disease frequency, spread, and impact. Biosecurity is a key component of the Secure Pork Supply (SPS) Plan designed to provide business continuity in the event of a foreign animal disease outbreak as well as help protect operations from endemic diseases. Core biosecurity recommendations outlined in the SPS Plan are a written site-specific biosecurity plan and implementation of a perimeter buffer area and a line of separation. To-date, no benchmarking of SPS Plan biosecurity implementation has been done. Utilizing data from a 2017 survey of U.S. swine producers, this study shows that SPS Plan biosecurity adoption varies and is affected by how feasible producers believe implementation of each biosecurity practice is on their operation. Furthermore, binomial logit regression analyses indicate producer and operation demographics and producer risk attitudes and perceptions affect biosecurity adoption. Conditional probabilities reveal that adoption of biosecurity practices is overwhelmingly complementary, suggesting that one biosecurity practice likely increases marginal efficacy of another biosecurity practice. The insights this study provides regarding the complexities of biosecurity adoption are vitally important to both educators and policy makers.

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This article is published as Pudenz, Christopher, Lee Schulz, and Glynn Tonsor. "Adoption of Secure Pork Supply Plan Biosecurity by US Swine Producers." Frontiers in Veterinary Science 6 (2019): 146. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2019.00146.

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Pudenz, Schulz and Tonsor
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Citation Information
Christopher C. Pudenz, Lee L. Schulz and Glynn T. Tonsor. "Adoption of Secure Pork Supply Plan Biosecurity by U.S. Swine Producers" Frontiers in Veterinary Science Vol. 6 (2019) p. 146
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/lee-schulz/51/