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PED is a potentially devastating disease and can cause 80 to 100 per cent of piglet losses.

Precautions urged as PED outbreak enters fall manure-spreading season

Producers are getting ready to begin fall spreading, but some manure lagoons will need extra precautions as the province’s PED numbers climb

By Alexis Stockford September 27, 2019

Manitoba’s latest battle with PED has put a new focus on biosecurity as fall manure spreading gets underway. The province suffered another spate of PED confirmations this month. The Chief Veterinary Office (CVO) had confirmed 78 cases as of Sept. 20, with the last confirmed Sept. 13. Eight of those cases have been added since

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Livestock industry must prepare for just about anything

Threats can appear from any direction and most aren’t even on the radar

By Alex Binkley January 16, 2017

While the livestock industry and governments have improved their ability to respond to disease outbreaks, they need to broaden their preparations. They must include new diseases and challenges, says a report from the National Farmed Animal Health and Welfare Council. Rob McNabb, general manager of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association, says the report is aimed at

Alberta researcher David Westaway says there’s a hidden process in BSE  and other prion diseases. PHOTO: UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA

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Prion diseases like BSE have a telltale sign

The discovery suggests the disease may not be  as unstoppable as previously thought

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 16, 2017

Medical researchers at the University of Alberta have found fatal prion diseases, like BSE, have a hidden signature. Findings published this month in the peer-reviewed journal, Public Library of Science (PLoS) Pathogens, show that up to seven months before an animal shows physical signs of infection, a particular prion protein in the brain, known as

Hogs, Livestock

USDA analyzing effects of wild pigs on crops, livestock

By GFM Network News, Reuters September 25, 2015

Chicago | Reuters –– The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said Friday it has started analyzing for the first time data it has collected on the impact that wild pigs have on U.S. farmers’ crop and livestock operations. It is estimated by federal and state agricultural officials that there are more than five million wild

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Herders with machine guns intensify South Sudan land, food woes

By Chris Arsenault, GFM Network News January 2, 2015

Rome | Thomson Reuters Foundation — Tensions are rising in South Sudan as displaced pastoralists migrate onto lands occupied by farming communities, stoking a new series of conflicts in the war-torn nation and threatening food supplies, a United Nations official said Friday. Due to changes in migration patterns because of violence, the world’s youngest country

Beef cattle, Livestock

U.S. researchers develop CWD vaccine

By GFM Network News December 22, 2014

Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center and elsewhere say that a vaccination they have developed to fight a brain-based, wasting syndrome among deer and other animals may hold promise on two additional fronts: Protecting U.S. livestock from contracting the disease, and preventing similar brain infections in humans. The study, to be published in Vaccine online

Canada eyes Mercosur trade pact to reduce U.S. reliance, minister says

Canada and New Zealand resolve dairy trade dispute, Canada says

Second Harvest redirecting surplus food to those in need

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Canada eyes Mercosur trade pact to reduce U.S. reliance, minister says

Canada and New Zealand resolve dairy trade dispute, Canada says

Second Harvest redirecting surplus food to those in need

Tag Archives livestock diseases — page 6

Precautions urged as PED outbreak enters fall manure-spreading season

Livestock industry must prepare for just about anything

Prion diseases like BSE have a telltale sign

USDA analyzing effects of wild pigs on crops, livestock

Herders with machine guns intensify South Sudan land, food woes

U.S. researchers develop CWD vaccine

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