AASV Publications

The following links provide access to electronic versions of AASV publications and/or order forms for purchase of print copies:

Raising Pigs Without Antibiotics: Producer Self-Assessment Tool -- This self-assessment tool contains a series of questions producers are encouraged to consider with their entire management team, including their herd veterinarian, when discussing a potential shift to Raised Without Antibiotics production. It is meant to act as a guide and foster conversation around this topic. Producers are encouraged to consider additional questions that may be relevant to their system when reviewing this tool.

AMDUCA and Extra-label Drug Use in Swine -- A brochure providing an algorithm for the use of drugs in an extra-label manner and describing additional restrictions for the extra-label use of cephalosporins and fluoroquinolones.

Changes in the Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD): What the swine veterinarian needs to know

Preventing Sick Pigs: An Ethical Responsibility (co-published with National Pork Board)

Prevention Uses for Antibiotics -- This flyer, developed by the AASV Pharmaceutical Issues Committee, describes how swine veterinarians use antibiotics to prevent disease in swine herds.

Biosecurity Fact Sheets for producers and feed delivery personnel: Reducing pathogen spread of 10 major swine diseases/organisms during farm feed delivery.

PRRSV Biosecurity Manual:

On-Farm Euthanasia of Swine - Recommendations for the Producer (revised 2016 and co-published with National Pork Board; order copies from The Pork Store)

Eutanasia en la Granja - Recomendaciones para el Productor (revised 2016 and co-published with National Pork Board; order copies from The Pork Store)

A Producer's Guide to Managing PCVAD - (copublished with National Pork Board; order copies from The Pork Store)

Got Tonsil? - (print copies available from AASV)

Basic Guidelines of Judicious Therapeutic Use of Antimicrobials in Pork Production (Revised by the AASV Pharmaceutical Issues Committee and approved by the Board of Directors, October 2020)

Procedures to Report a Suspected Foreign Animal Disease (AASV Foreign Animal Disease Committee, 2014. Updated 8/2018)

Veterinary Services Notice -- 30 Day Health Rule Clarifications

A Champion's Guide to Youth Swine Exhibition: Biosecurity and your Pig Project (co-published with National Pork Board; order copies from The Pork Store)

Resources for the Agriculture Classroom

Health, Hygiene, and Sanitation Guidelines for Boar Studs Providing Semen to the Domestic Market (October 2023)