date:Apr 28, 2014
entering farm yards.
The industry wants truck washes to use fresh water instead of recycled, since PEDv can live in room temperature water for up to 13 days, a University of Minnesota study said.
The only truck I regularly allow on site is the feed truck and last November I told the driver not to get out of the truck, said Bill Tentinger, an Iowa farmer who so far has kept PEDv at bay.
The extra washing, drying and disinfecting can consume at least two hours and cost up to $500 per load, ind