Madonna Benjamin, DVM, MS, DACAW
Contact Me
Large Animal Clinical Sciences
MSU Extension
Phone:
517-614-8875
Email:
gemus@msu.edu
Degrees:
Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine
Master of Science
Diplomate in the American College of Animal Welfare
Related Work
Authored Articles
- Unwavering loyalty: Piglet devotion to the chosen sow teat, January 16, 2024
- Veterinary Feed Directive at 5 years: swine producer and veterinarian survey exploring how VFD guidelines have affected swine herd health and management practices in Michigan, May 5, 2023
- Minimizing the risk of heat stress in pigs during transportation, May 5, 2023
- Keeping swine in the thermoneutral zone, April 21, 2023
- Protect your pigs from verminous pneumonia, December 2, 2022
- Michigan to offer Pork Quality Assurance Plus advisor training for new version of PQA, April 7, 2022
- Simple biosecurity tips for your small swine farm, December 21, 2021
- Protect your swine herd by washing and disinfecting vehicles returning from processing plants, buying stations or other farms, December 21, 2021
- Can precision livestock farming help optimize farm labor?, December 20, 2021
- UPDATE: Progress toward PRRSv-resistant pigs, July 26, 2021
- Planning tool for welfare culling during farm disrupted operations, May 4, 2020
- Supply chain disruptions, May 3, 2020
- What are Standard Operating Procedures, and why are they important to the swine industry, January 14, 2020
- Developing standard operating procedures for your swine facilities, January 14, 2020
- Michigan’s Pork Industry future: No more gestation stalls as of April 1, 2020, December 19, 2019
- Sampling Oral and Processing Fluids to Identify Disease in Pigs, December 3, 2019
- Precision Livestock Farming Technology for Remote Monitoring of Pig Welfare and Health: Part 1, September 11, 2019
- Blockchain and the pork chain - A strategy for both producers and consumers, September 5, 2019
- Transport of Pigs in Spring and Summer Months, June 1, 2018
- Biocontainment and a Cruise Ship – Oh the Irony!, February 28, 2018
- Humane Swine Euthanasia and Human Safety - Firearms, December 12, 2017
- Stress and Transportation, September 12, 2017
- Seneca Valley Virus in swine, October 19, 2015
- Coping with euthanasia related stress: Part two, June 24, 2015
- Do H2S monitors belong on the swine farm?: Part two, June 24, 2015
- The stockperson perspective on euthanasia: Part one, June 23, 2015
- Do H2S monitors belong on the swine farm?: Part one, June 23, 2015
Articles Featuring
- Michigan farms may not cook and feed garbage to swine, June 21, 2022
- Pork Quality Assurance Plus is valuable to swine producers, April 25, 2022
- MSU-led international research team receives $1 million grant to build multi-disciplinary precision livestock farming network, February 28, 2021
- Pork Quality Assurance plus advisor training offered in Michigan, April 10, 2019
- 2018 M-AAA Project Summaries, February 1, 2019
Authored Documents
- Comprehensive Guide to Parasite Management in Pasture-Raised Swine Herds, February 5, 2025
- Vaccination Strategies for Pigs Raised on Small Farms, June 8, 2022
- Management over Medication: Biosecurity Plans for Small Farms, February 14, 2022
- Recommendations for Marketing Youth Animal Projects – Swine, May 25, 2020
- Options for Ractopamine testing for fairs and exhibitions, April 28, 2020
- Treatment Management SOP, November 22, 2019
- Piglet Processing SOP, November 22, 2019
- Moving Nonambulatory Animals SOP, November 22, 2019
- Rodent Control SOP, November 22, 2019
- Visitor and Service Persons Biosecurity Policy SOP, November 22, 2019
- Mortality Record Sheet, November 22, 2019
- Rodent Station Label, November 22, 2019
- Needle and Sharp Usage SOP, November 22, 2019
- Handling Equipment SOP, November 22, 2019
- Feeding and Watering SOP, November 22, 2019
- Farm Visitor Log-In Sheet, November 22, 2019
- Individual Caretaker Training Record, November 22, 2019
- Euthanasia Action Plan SOP, November 22, 2019
- Emergency Action Plan SOP, November 22, 2019
- Daily Observation SOP, November 22, 2019
- Caretaker Training, November 22, 2019
- Daily Temperature Record Sheet, November 22, 2019
- Biosecurity Policy, November 22, 2019
- Animal Care and Abuse Policy, November 8, 2019
- Euthanasia SOP,
Videos
- August 2024 Session: Potential Drone Use in (Animal) Agriculture, Dr. Michael Reinke, MSU Extension & Unmanned Aircraft Vehicle for Soil and Pasture Management, Dr. Joao Dorea, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- April 2024 Session: Ear-Tag Sensor Boards with Smart Data Analysis for Scalable Monitoring of Swine Health Parameters, Dr. Santosh Pandey, Iowa State University
- November 2023 Session: The Challenge of Automated Detection of Health and Welfare Issues, Dr. Ilias Kyriazakis, Queen's University Belfast
- October 2023 Session: Cattle Feed InTake, Dr. Jan Lassen, Viking Genetics
- September 2023 Session: Telehealth & Biosecurity Using Computer Vision Techonologies, David Speller, OPTIfarm
- August 2023 Session: From Faces to Feelings: Leveraging Computer Vision for Livestock Identification and Emotion Analysis, Dr. Suresh Neethirajan, Dalhousie Univeristy, Canada
- May 2023 Session: Developing Ethically and Sustainably Aware Computer Vision/AI Models: How Should We Approach Energy Costs and Scalability?, Dr. Oleksiy Guzhva, Swedish University of Agriculture Sciences
- April 2023 Session: Engineering Video Analytics Systems for Precision Livestock Farming, Dr. Amy Reibman, Purdue University
- March 2023 Session: Animal Tracking: Automatic Individual Behavior Monitoring Using Computer Vision, Dr. Mathieu Bonneau, French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment
- January 2023 Session: Performance of Precision Livestock Farming Technologies Under Commercial Farm Conditions, Dr. Thomas Banhazi, National Taiwan Univeristy
- May 2022 Session: 3D Sow Posture Estimation, Dr. Daniel Morris, Michigan State University
- April 2022 Session: Precision Livestock Farming: Where We Are, Where to Go, Dr. Daniel Berckmans, Catholic University of Leuven
- March 2022 Session: Modeling Animals in 3D for Shape and Pose Estimation from Images, Dr. Silvia Zuffi, Institute for Applied Mathematics and Information Technologies in Rome
- February 2022 Session: "How Do We Know Who's Who?" Practical CV Solutions for Animal ID, Dr. Eric Psota, Pig Improvement Company
- January 2022 Session: Computer Vision in Precision Livestock Farming Webinar Series Introduction
- Biosecurity: Protection Farm Animals
- December 2024 Session: Computer Vision in Precision Livestock Farming
- March 2024 Session: Measurements to Understand Thermal Comfort, Dr. Tami M. Brown-Brandl, University of Nebraska-Lincoln