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CFIA’s tests “could not demonstrate” that processed feed pellets made with PED-infected hog plasma are capable of causing PED in hogs. (Photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

PEDv infectiveness not confirmed in piglet feed: CFIA

Federal lab tests still can’t rule piglet feed in or out as a possible source of the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) in Canada. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Monday announced its findings after testing an Ontario company’s hog feed pellets containing U.S.-origin blood plasma from PEDv-infected hogs as an ingredient. [Related story] While

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PEDv arrives in Sask. on soiled boots, not yet in hogs

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 4, 2014

Saskatchewan has now officially had a close encounter of the third kind with the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) — but not in hogs. Saskatchewan’s chief veterinary officer Dr. Betty Althouse on Friday reported a confirmed “positive environmental sample” of both PEDv and transmissible gastroenteritis (TGE) in a livestock trailer returning to the province from

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USDA sees pig virus limiting hog supply; cattle prices up

Southern Plains drought also limiting  herd expansion

March 3, 2014

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Feb. 20 that the spread of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) through the U.S. hog herd will “sharply limit” the supply of hogs compared to earlier expectations. “Mortality rates due to PEDv have been highest among young piglets which have curtailed the growth in the number of pigs per

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What is spray-dried porcine plasma?

Cross-contamination might be to blame, says Iowa State University professor

By Daniel Winters February 28, 2014

The use of spray-dried porcine plasma, an ingredient in weanling rations derived from the blood of slaughtered pigs, has been used without incident in the hog sector since the 1990s. But it has now come under intense scrutiny as a possible cause of the PED outbreak in Canada that began on Jan 22. “It’s real

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PEDv arrives in North Dakota

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 28, 2014

North Dakota has become the seventh U.S./Canadian border state with a case of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) in its hog herd. The lone case so far was confirmed this week on a hog farm in the eastern part of the state, North Dakota State University said Thursday. As of Sunday, before North Dakota’s confirmation, the

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Maple Leaf posts loss on production revamp costs

By GFM Network News February 28, 2014

Reuters — Canadian food processor Maple Leaf Foods, which has been replacing production facilities and setting up a new distribution system, reported a quarterly loss that it blamed on the “tremendous” costs of the restructuring. Maple Leaf’s multi-year program to revamp meat operations to boost profits and better compete with U.S. rivals such as Tyson

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Rules now on books to enforce hog traceability for July 1

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 26, 2014

Hog farmers and handlers in Canada now officially have until July 1 to get their operations Pigtrace-compatible. Amendments to the federal Health of Animals Regulations were published Wednesday in the Canada Gazette to make traceability of farmed pigs mandatory effective July 1 this year. The same rules will also apply to farmed wild boars starting

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Manitoba PEDv case not linked to feed: CVO

There are 24 farms  affected in Eastern Canada

By Daniel Winters February 25, 2014

The effort to contain the outbreak of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) seems to be working. An investigation of 45 farms that had contact with Manitoba’s only infected hog premises to date, a weaning-to-finish operation in the southeast, have found no further infections, said acting chief veterinary officer Dr. Glen Duizer. “We are working through all

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PEDv in Manitoba not seen linked to feed

By GFM Network News February 25, 2014

The southeastern Manitoba hog farm confirmed Feb. 14 with porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) remains the province’s only case, as none of 45 other farms known to have had contact with the infected property have turned up any signs of the virus. But with no new Manitoba cases yet in sight, provincial officials now ask: How

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Scientific claims won’t counter ethical questions about animal welfare

Pork producers can say that consumers don’t get it, that science is the basis for welfare and that castration doesn’t hurt, but the public won’t buy it — and that’s bad for business

By Shannon VanRaes February 24, 2014

If you’re a pork producer trying to convince someone your welfare practices are up to snuff, the last words you should pull out of your phrase book are “science” and “based.” Speaking to representatives of Manitoba’s pork industry during the annual Swine Seminar in Winnipeg, Dr. Tim Blackwell outlined the pitfalls and missteps that hurt

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Wheat breeding system no longer works, Canadian Wheat Research Coalition report says

Feed grain weekly: Barley steady in late February

Reduced Argentine soybean harvest, bigger crush says USDA attaché

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PEDv infectiveness not confirmed in piglet feed: CFIA

PEDv arrives in Sask. on soiled boots, not yet in hogs

USDA sees pig virus limiting hog supply; cattle prices up

What is spray-dried porcine plasma?

PEDv arrives in North Dakota

Maple Leaf posts loss on production revamp costs

Rules now on books to enforce hog traceability for July 1

Manitoba PEDv case not linked to feed: CVO

PEDv in Manitoba not seen linked to feed

Scientific claims won’t counter ethical questions about animal welfare

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