Yuzo Koketsu

Introduction: The first outbreak of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) since 1996 in Japan was reported in October 2013. Also, in August 2014, Japan also had the first outbreak of dengue fever (DF) since 1945. A concern with these recent incidents is the risk of a decrease in pork consumption due to misinformation or exaggeration by the news media. Therefore, our objectives were to characterize PED a ...

Introduction:Benchmarking has been widely practiced worldwide in the swine industry to improve farm management and productivity. Best practice benchmarking is defined as identifying those practices and processes associated with superior efficiency and performance. In the best-practice benchmarking for breeding farms, measurements in high-performing and ordinary farms have been used to provide valu ...

IntroductionThe present work addresses the use of data in improving decision making and farm productivity, one of the aspects that has generated more interest in swine production in recent years. In the current review, the limitations of data management and recently developed strategies in this sector have been revised, together with the need for new technologies and their use in the evolution of ...

IntroductionWith information technology, commercial herds have collected and stored many data. New technologies are expanding the possibilities for data collection, information-exchange, collaboration and data analysis. However, the use of these data have been limited. Farm data analysis can help veterinarians and producers to identify a production problem that they did not recognize and make a be ...