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A macrophage (immune response) cell in early stages of infection with African swine fever virus, magnified about 1,000x. (Keith Weller photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

China faces long struggle to tackle African swine fever, OIE says

By GFM Network News, Sybille De La Hamaide May 30, 2019

Paris | Reuters — It will take years for China to contain the deadly African swine fever virus that has spread throughout the country, which is the world’s biggest pork producer, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said on Tuesday. China has been struggling to control the epidemic, which some analysts predict could see

Clubroot affects all cruciferous plants – not just canola (seen here) – which includes brassica oilseeds such as mustard.

Crops, News

Organic farmers don’t get a pass on clubroot

Clubroot can also infect mustard, radish and other brassicas

By Laura Rance-Unger April 10, 2019

Organic farmers are mistaken if they think they will be spared from the clubroot infestation making its way across the Prairies because they don’t grow canola, a crops extension specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture says. Brent Flaten warned growers attending the SaskOrganics annual conference March 29 the disease affects all cruciferous plants, and that includes brassica

An eight-year-old handler walks her best-in-class York Barrow pig on June 4, 2014 at World Pork Expo in Des Moines. (File photo: Reuters/Lane Hickenbottom)

Hogs, Livestock

World Pork Expo cancelled over swine fever fears

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek April 10, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. pork industry canceled its annual convention on Wednesday over concerns that international attendees could bring in an incurable hog disease at a time when U.S. farmers are already suffering from trade wars. The decision to scrap the World Pork Expo, held by the National Pork Producers Council in Des

Hogs, Livestock

Alberta confirms fourth PED outbreak

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff March 18, 2019

Alberta took another punch last week in its fight with porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED), having confirmed the province’s fourth on-farm case of the disease. Officials with the provincial ag department and Alberta Pork haven’t said where the fourth case is located, nor how far it is from the three southern Alberta properties where outbreaks in

Hogs, Livestock

Alberta confirms third and fourth PED cases

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff March 1, 2019

Update, March 4, 2019: The third PED case to which this article refers was announced Monday to be a “false positive.” Click here for details. Alberta, which until January was one of the remaining hog-producing provinces clear of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED), is now up to four cases in three months. The provincial agriculture department

Hogs, Livestock

PED not yet done with Alberta

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News February 22, 2019

Just when it appeared Alberta’s on-farm outbreak of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) may have been a one-off, the province has confirmed a second case. Officials with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry on Friday announced they’ve confirmed and are investigating a new PED outbreak at a 600-head farrow-to-finish hog operation at an unspecified location. “At this time,

Hogs, Livestock

Pigs could soon move off Alberta’s PED-infected farm

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff February 7, 2019

The first, and so far only, Alberta hog farm to catch porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) could see animal shipments restart on a supervised basis “in the coming week.” The provincial ag ministry on Thursday said its investigation of the PED case, discovered Jan. 3 at a 400-head farrow-to finish operation, “continues to suggest that the

Hogs, Livestock

Alberta’s PED outbreak so far held to one spot

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff January 18, 2019

The probe into Alberta’s first-ever outbreak of porcine epidemic diarrhea hasn’t yet shown any paths by which the PED virus might have got to the farm — nor any new cases anywhere else in the province. The provincial government on Jan. 7 confirmed the first case of PED to appear in hogs in Alberta, at

Hogs, Livestock

PEDv arrives in Alberta hogs

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff January 8, 2019

Veterinary officials in Alberta are now investigating the province’s first-ever outbreak of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) in hogs. Alberta Pork, the province’s hog producer commission, and the provincial government on Tuesday announced an outbreak of the viral disease at what was described as a “400-head hog operation.” Javier Bahamon, quality assurance and production manager for

A man works at a machine that prepares chicken eggs for hatching at the Huayu hatchery in Handan, Hebei province, China, June 25, 2018.

News, Poultry

A billion eggs a day

How China will transform its poultry sector in the coming years

By Dominique Patton August 1, 2018

Behind a row of sealed red incubator doors in a new facility in northern China, about 400,000 chicks are hatched every day, part of the rapidly modernizing supply chain in China’s US$37-billion egg industry, the world’s biggest. As China overhauls production of everything from pork to milk and vegetables, farmers raising hens for eggs are

Daily Network News

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China faces long struggle to tackle African swine fever, OIE says

Organic farmers don’t get a pass on clubroot

World Pork Expo cancelled over swine fever fears

Alberta confirms fourth PED outbreak

Alberta confirms third and fourth PED cases

PED not yet done with Alberta

Pigs could soon move off Alberta’s PED-infected farm

Alberta’s PED outbreak so far held to one spot

PEDv arrives in Alberta hogs

A billion eggs a day

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