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Maple Leaf official recounts challenges faced while trying to put a stop to a Streptococcus zooepidemicus outbreak
Bill adds protections for biosecurity, farmers' mental health, Barlow says
![“If we get to the point that we have to use regulations to enforce [it], it’s not working.” – Cam Dahl, Manitoba Pork Council.](https://static.manitobacooperator.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/22103423/hogs_cropped_cmyk-660x420.jpeg)
The Manitoba Pork Council’s new PED elimination plan relies on surveillance, biosecurity and aggressive action, but leaves room for farms to tailor responses
The Manitoba Pork Council has drawn a direct line between understaffing and outbreaks of PED
Thirteen outbreaks reported in province so far in April
Working group says an elimination approach the only viable option
Three more poultry outbreaks confirmed in Canada so far this week
On smaller, specialty hog farms, herd health — while taken just as seriously — can look a lot different, say two producers
Smaller-scale farmers have a part to play in keeping deadly African swine fever (ASF) out of Manitoba’s swine herd, says the Manitoba Pork Council. “When African swine fever went from wild pigs in Germany into the domestic herd, the first time was a farm with four pigs, and the second time was a farm with
Pork sector weighing compartmentalization framework for African swine fever fight
