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Russia To Lift All H1N1-Related Meat Bans

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Major meat importer Russia will from Oct. 15 lift all remaining meat import bans related to the H1N1 virus as the risk of infection through food products is low, its animal and plant health watchdog said Oct. 14. The last remaining bans to be removed apply to live pigs and raw pork imports from Great
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Early Interest In Hog Transition Program Heavy – for Oct. 8, 2009

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Afederal government program to help hog producers leave the industry could risk running out of money before serving all applicants. The $75 million in the program may not be enough to meet the demand at the rate inquiries are going, said Karl Kynoch, Manitoba Pork Council chairman. The early response to the long-awaited program announced
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Probiotics Useful But No Substitute For Antibiotics

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“We need to use antibiotics effectively.” – JAMES PETTIGREW The TV ad showing a person’s tummy doing a belly dance after eating yogurt may be coming to a hog barn near you. That particular yogurt contains probiotics – beneficial bacteria aimed at improving digestion and general wellbeing. Probiotics are big these days as North Americans
Hogs, Livestock

H1N1 Was In Pigs For Years: Study

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“This lineage has been circulating under the radar for the better part of a decade.” – MICHAEL WOROBEY Ever since the H1N1 flu virus emerged earlier this year, pork producers have objected to its commonly used name: swine flu. Producers argue the virus is about people, not pigs, and the term is unfair to themselves
Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock

Hog Producers Remember Departing Premier For Bill 17

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“I know my friends in the hog industry don’t agree with me.” – GARY DOER He reduced education taxes on farmland. He doubled agriculture spending during his 10 years in office. But many Manitoba farmers will remember Premier Gary Doer for one thing: Bill 17. The famous (or infamous) bill, passed exactly one year ago,
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Closing A Barn: Things To Remember

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The upcoming federal hog aid program, which allows producers to mothball their barns for three years, raises some interesting questions, such as: If producers in Manitoba’s hog moratorium area decide to mothball their barns for the required three years, can they reopen them? Do barns still have to contain a few pigs to qualify for
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Hog Loan Guarantee Program Expected

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Canada’s hog farmers will soon learn the terms of a federal loan guarantee program to help them through their worst financial crisis in recent memory. Ottawa will launch the program in late September or early October, according to government officials. The government will guarantee long-term loans to hog producers, up to a yet-to-be-determined point, to
Hogs, Livestock

Targeting Breeding Herd Output Fundamental

Breeding targets can only be achieved when there is a ready supply of gilts available to replace sows that are culled or which die. Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain Consulting Ltd. of Lacombe, Alberta, and editor of Western Hog Journal. His columns will run every second week in the Manitoba Co-operator. In my
Hogs, Livestock

Limited Market For Swine Vaccine

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Dr. Cate Dewey, professor of swine health management at the University of Guelph, said that a vaccine to prevent “classical” H1N1 influenza infection in swine has existed for years. “But we don’t have information on how well that vaccine is going to protect pigs from the novel virus,” she said. The “novel” H1N1 virus is
Hogs, Livestock

USDA Tries To Speed New H1N1 Flu Vaccine For Hogs

The U. S. Agriculture Department is trying to speed the development of an H1N1 flu vaccine for hogs by providing two master seed viruses to five veterinary vaccine makers, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Sept. 10. The new pandemic flu strain, a mix of human, avian and swine vi ruses of ten referred to as

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