The federal government has pledged up to $1.7 million toward foreign animal disease prevention, the federal agriculture minister announced today.
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Feds announce $1.7 million for foreign animal disease prevention
Cash boosts Animal Health Canada's efforts to prevent and prepare for ASF, FMD
The financial chink in Canada’s African swine fever armour
Industry says ‘Day 1’ farmer compensation mechanisms need to be more robust
If African swine fever (ASF) arrives in Canada, a lot of things will happen. Response plans will be implemented. Quarantines will be imposed and animal movements locked down. Biosecurity will ramp up to crisis levels. Information and updates will flow between federal and provincial chief veterinary offices and the industry. Further from ground zero, zoning
China blocks pig, boar imports from Bangladesh due to African swine fever
Chinese farmers have ramped up slaughter under cost, price pressure, ASF outbreak
China has prohibited the import of pig, pig products and wild boars from Bangladesh after the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) reported an outbreak of African swine fever at a farm in the country's major port city of Chittagong.
Hong Kong to cull pigs due to African swine fever
Reuters – Hong Kong has ordered a pig cull after confirming its second case of African swine fever in a month. The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department on Nov. 23 said it planned to cull around 1,900 pigs from one herd on Nov. 25 after the virus was discovered at a pig farm. The licensed
African swine fever plans continue to fall into place
Hog sector sees new compartmentalization rules as another way to plan ahead
Glacier FarmMedia – Another piece has fallen into place in Canada’s two-track approach to African swine fever preparation. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s release of standards and the framework for “compartments” within hog production regions allows farmers and industry to get ahead of any future ASF outbreak. “It’s one of the tools we have to prepare for ASF,”
ASF compartmentalization moves a step forward
Plan not an attempt to download responsibilities, CFIA says
Canada is one step closer to a compartmentalizing regime that hog farmers and the rest of the industry hope protects them against market impacts of African swine fever. Practical application can be developed now that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has released its National Standards and National Framework for the Canadian ASF Compartment Program. From
Swine fever detected in Sweden for first time
Recent outbreak in Balkans spurred culls
Stockholm | Reuters — A dead wild boar in Sweden has tested positive for African swine fever, Sweden’s Veterinary Institute said on Wednesday, the first such case in the country. African swine fever is harmless to humans but is highly contagious and deadly in domestic pigs and wild boars. It has spread from Africa to
Anti-ASF funds designated for Manitoba Pork
Three initiatives will be funded through the federal African swine fever preparedness program
The Manitoba Pork Council’s efforts against African swine fever now have almost $1 million in extra financial padding. On Aug. 3, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada announced $944,340 in funding for Manitoba’s hog farm group. Funds were provided through AAFC’s African Swine Fever Industry Preparedness Program and were slotted for three initiatives: Squeal on Pigs, increased
Livestock issues take stage at ag ministers meeting
Foot-and-mouth disease vaccine bank highlights several discussions affecting livestock producers
Full commitment to a foot-and-mouth disease vaccine bank was one of the top things that came out of July’s meeting of Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial agriculture ministers. That’s according to Tyler Fulton, a Manitoba farmer and vice-president of the Canadian Cattle Association. “We kind of knew that it was coming, but more money moving
Vietnam approves commercial use of first African swine fever vaccines
U.S. Agriculture Secretary says farmers may purchase as precaution despite no domestic cases
Hanoi | Reuters – Vietnam has approved the domestic commercial use of two home-grown vaccines against African swine fever, the government said on Monday, making them the world’s first commercial vaccines against the deadly disease. The vaccines include NAVET-ASFVAC, co-developed by Navetco Central Veterinary Medicine and scientists from the United States, and AVAC ASF LIVE
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