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Hogs, Livestock

VIDEO: All quiet on the PEDv front for Manitoba’s hog producers

Biosecurity playing a key role in helping keep deadly diseases at bay

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VIDEO (above): On-farm biosecurity with Manitoba Pork Pt. 1: Jenelle Hamblin with Manitoba Pork talks about biosecurity on hog farms and some of the best-practices pork producers should use to maintain a healthy herd. Manitoba’s pork industry has been enjoying a relative calm on the disease front in when it comes to viruses such as
LeeAnn Peters of Maple Leaf Foods speaks at the 2024 Swine Seminar in Winnipeg.
Hogs, News

Detective work solves swine sickness mystery

Maple Leaf official recounts challenges faced while trying to put a stop to a Streptococcus zooepidemicus outbreak

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Glacier FarmMedia – When a multiplication pig barn came down with a Streptococcus zooepidemicus outbreak in March 2019, Maple Leaf Foods staff scrambled to figure out what it was and how to treat it. At first, they dealt with it as suggested by worldwide veterinary authorities. Believing the gilts were over the illness, they were sent into four sow
Conservative agriculture critic John Barlow speaks Nov. 24, 2021 in the House of Commons. (Screengrab from supplied video)
Livestock

Anti-activist bill back before Commons committee

Bill adds protections for biosecurity, farmers' mental health, Barlow says

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A bill to create harsher penalties for unlawful entry onto farms and biosecure zones is back before the House of Commons after a previous iteration died on the order table in 2021. Conservative MP John Barlow brought forward Bill C-275, “an Act to amend the Health of Animals Act (biosecurity on farms),” as a private
“If we get to the point that we have to use regulations to enforce [it], it’s not working.” – Cam Dahl, Manitoba Pork Council.
Hogs, News

Pork sector has new playbook against PED

The Manitoba Pork Council’s new PED elimination plan relies on surveillance, biosecurity and aggressive action, but leaves room for farms to tailor responses

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Manitoba Pork’s new plan to combat porcine epidemic diarrhea, or PED, relies on disease surveillance, ‘wartime’ biosecurity, heavy crackdowns on infected farms and producer co-operation to eliminate the virus from the province. “The long-term impacts of a major PED outbreak every other year is not sustainable,” the plan document says. The pork council posted the
Washpower robot washers are in more than 1,000 barns around the world, including American barns seen in these promotional photos.
Hogs, News

Automated washer a possible biosecurity, labour boon for hog producers

The Manitoba Pork Council has drawn a direct line between understaffing and outbreaks of PED

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A hog farm in southeastern Manitoba is taking a crack at automating its barn washing process with help from a Danish robot. “It definitely creates labour efficiencies,” said Dickson Gould, president of the Progressive Group. It is testing a Washpower robotic pressure washer in a batch farrowing barn. Why it matters: Labour gaps and disease biosecurity have both
(Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Livestock

Avian flu outbreaks climb in Quebec poultry

Thirteen outbreaks reported in province so far in April

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After a relatively quiet March with just one outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in domestic poultry, Quebec has turned up 13 outbreaks so far this month. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency in April has reported detections of high-path avian flu at 13 sites in that province, including: three commercial barns in the regional county

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