With an outbreak of the PEDv on an Alberta hog farm on January 7, a report in an Australian farm website, BeefCentral.com free online premium news and market intelligence service dedicated to the Australian beef industry about the African Swine Fever paled the Alberta story.
The Banff Pork Seminar spent many of its sessions on
China National Pig Inventory at end of December 2018 was 366.2082 million, down 38.2581 million from December 2017. The sow inventory at the end of December 2018 was 29.7314 million, dropped by 699,900 head compared to November. The sow inventory 2018 decreased 9.64% compared to 2017. Down 4.5 million sows December to December. U.S.D.A.
The Canadian pork sector is encouraging Canadian Border Services to get more detector dogs and to provide more information to travellers about the risks of bringing meat into the country.
African Swine Fever continues to spread in Europe, it’s in Russia, it’s moved into China and is getting closer to other southeast Asian countries. It’s
One sick pig is all it will take to destroy Canada’s swine industry at a cost that will reach billions of dollars, says a Central Alberta veterinarian.
Egan Brockhoff, who has been at the forefront of the battle against porcine epidemic diarrhea, was asked to give a presentation to the 2019 Banff Pork Seminar about
The Swine Health Information Centre is investigating the potential risk of the transmission of African Swine Fever through feed ingredients and alerting pork producers of that possible risk.
The industry believed that PED came to North America from China in 2013 through imported contaminated feed ingredients but don’t have definite proof.
The Swine Health Information Centre
Discussion and concern continue amongst all farmers regarding NAFTA negotiations or the lack thereof, ensuing tariffs, and how it affects current commodity prices and demand or the lack thereof.
Grain and special crop farmers are harvesting a decent crop varying from below average to average depending on what the industry considers to be average after
Whispers of a new threat to the health status of Canada’s swine herd have given way to warning bells in the past few weeks.
Late in September, Alberta Pork and the Canada West Swine Health Intelligence Network set up a telephone town hall meeting with producers and other stakeholders to describe the looming threat of
Dr. John Carr, international livestock consultant when posed with the question of how you stop African Swine Fever said a fascinating question.
“How do I stop it? I don’t know. I don’t have a vaccine. I don’t have the clinical science of death. I don’t have much warning,” said Dr. Carr. “Stop it. Well, we
