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Monitoring Use
PIPESTONE’s commitment to responsible antibiotic use and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) serves as the framework for
our PIPESTONE Antibiotic Use Standards (PORK). A producer certi昀椀es the production of hogs for PORK at one of the
three levels as set forth. These levels apply to all stages of swine production.
PIPESTONE Antibiotic Use Standards (PORK)
Level 0
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
ABX administration is under VCPR
Yes
Yes
Yes
Antibiotics used only when
necessary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Use for disease
treatment and control
only after diagnosis
has been determined
No use of
critically
important
antibiotics
No use
of ANY
antibiotics
No antibiotics used for growth
promotion
No tracking of
antibiotics
Antibiotic Use
Pipestone managed sow farms breakdown
Level 0
4 farms
Level 1
71 farms
Level 2
Level 3
0 farms
0 farms
Monitoring Resistance
PART has research focused on antimicrobial use and resistance on commercial swine farms in the Midwest. Partners in
the project include the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), National Animal Health Monitoring System
(NAHMS), the National Pork Board (NPD), and the Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research’s (FFAR) International
Consortium of Antibiotic Stewardship in Agriculture (ICASA). The work focuses on use and resistance in relation to animal
health and production-related indicators.
The Responsible use of antibiotics is not only 昀椀scally and 昀椀nancially
important for our farm, but more importantly, it’s the right thing to do.
Consumers want to know that they are getting a quality product that
is raised the right way. If [a pig] has been given antibiotics, they want
to know that it has been given responsibly.
Reducing antibiotics is doing management practices better than we did it
before. You need a baseline and records to evaluate where you are and where
you are want to be. Ask yourself, ‘is there something I can do on my farm to
help reduce my antibiotics?’. We’re able to be better managers because of
PART. We want to do our PART.
- Scott Sturtevant, Sturtevant Feedlot, Shannon IL
