PROVIDING HIGH-QUALITY LIVE SWINE TO THE RESEARCH COMMUNITY.

LIVE PIG SALES

Midwest Research Swine provides live swine for your research purposes. Our animals come from closed herds that meet the most stringent of health requirements.

QUALITY CONTROL

Our commitment to quality starts at conception. This includes everything our animals consume, the facilities they are housed in, and the staff that care for them throughout their lives. We maintain all critical records that document adherence to our guidelines. MRS maintains USDA class B and class R licenses.  Our quality management system is registered to ISO 13485 (Quality System for Medical Devices) and complies with ISO 22422-2 (Medical Devices utilizing animal tissues and their derivatives). Each herd is clinically-free and serologically negative to numerous porcine pathogens.

  • BIOSECURITY

    Maintaining healthy, disease-free animals is critical to our customers. Therefore, we follow practices which include a combination of physical and biological barriers that restrict any transmission of infectious diseases. We strive to maintain a high health herd while using minimal medication. This is achieved by protecting the pigs through a series of biosecurity measures, the collective impact of which is to reduce the prevalence of infectious diseases without compromising the animal's development.

  • ENVIRONMENT / RISK MITIGATION

    Midwest Research Swine's animals are raised inside controlled facilities at multiple locations in Minnesota. The multiple locations are geographically separated, which provides disease management control and ensures that there are redundant resources should one location be compromised.

  • GENETIC MANAGEMENT

    Midwest Research swine's animals come from closed herds, providing maximum biosecurity protection, safety and security for our customers. The genetic makeup of the herd is controlled from conception. Exemplary breeding sows and boar semen are used to produce pigs that are genetically consistent and highly controlled for use in a research setting.

  • HERD HEALTH

    Midwest Research Swine animals are raised inside controlled facilities to reduce the prevalence of infectious diseases without compromising the animal's development. These types of measures are sought after by companies in the research community. Our Farm managers and veterinarians work closely together to monitor herd health. Verification of herd-health status is accomplished through an integrated program of testing. Custom screening for specific pathogens is available upon request.

MESSAGE TO THE FARM

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