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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
“These projects and the knowledge that we’re aiming to achieve through this research will contribute to the bottom line of pork producers and processors and will also build in Canada’s global leadership in pork production.” – Daniel Ramage.
Hogs, News

PEDv vaccine among funded research projects

$10.6 million earmarked for pork research

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A vaccine for porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) and antimicrobial alternatives will be among the hog industry research projects supported by recently announced federal cash. “These projects and the knowledge that we’re aiming to achieve through this research will contribute to the bottom line of pork producers and processors and will also build in Canada’s
If a person can get into the barn, so can a virus or bacteria.
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Load out risky time for hog farm

Load out can open door for infection in a barn

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Glacier FarmMedia – What if the truck driver asks to enter the hog barn to use the bathroom? Does the operation have a protocol for that? That’s a question asked of Dr. Julia Keenliside at the Manitoba Swine Seminar. “Everybody’s got to work out what your procedures are, because that happens,” said Keenliside, an Edmonton-based
“Starting the plan ahead of potential new cases will help farmers implement the preventative measures...” – Manitoba Pork Council.
Hogs, News

PED elimination plan takes the gloves off

The pork council will push its PED elimination plan this fall

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Manitoba Pork’s plan to eliminate porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) is fully operational. “Starting the plan ahead of potential new cases will help farmers implement the preventative measures included [in] the plan and allow us to broadly discuss the plan with producers and industry service providers,” the farm group wrote in an Oct. 18 newsletter. Why
“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
A PED working group has been developing a plan since early 2022.
Hogs, News

Manitoba Pork floats PED plan to producers

Working group says an elimination approach the only viable option

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Pork producers recently got a first look at Manitoba Pork’s plan to virtually eliminate PED from the provincial hog industry. The draft plan’s goal is to eliminate 96 per cent of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) infections by 2027, according to the presentation at the Nov. 1 producer meeting. Details are pending. The draft showed objectives
“This is the time of year where we traditionally see an uptick in cases and I’m concerned that that’s going to happen again and we’ll see a new wave.” – Cam Dahl, Manitoba Pork.
Hogs, Livestock, News

PED cases still on the rise

Cases in the current outbreak had reached 114 by mid-June

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Manitoba is not on the right track when it comes to porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED). That was the unfortunate news from Manitoba Pork general manager Cam Dahl in the third week of June, with the province still embroiled in its most serious outbreak of the disease to date. “This is the time of year where
Both the hog and poultry sectors are faced with disease issues that are about to test the province's ability to crisis manage.
Livestock, News

Managing Manitoba’s growing animal disease watch list

Is Manitoba ready for an animal disease fight with multiple fronts?

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Porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) may not be the only battle in the near future for the province’s already busy top veterinary authority. Manitoba’s office of the chief veterinary officer (CVO) is already occupied with the latest, and worst ever, eruption of PED—a virulent neonatal pig disease that, although no threat to humans, is well known
Are Manitoba hog producers on the verge of viral spring? As the seasons turn, the risk of livestock disease is climbing in the province.
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PED outbreak hits record levels

An atypical, and ongoing, fall-winter outbreak has experts worried about what spring will bring

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Ordinarily the risk of PED infections in Manitoba hog herds rises with the temperatures in the spring. But for the first time, this year the sector is heading into the usual risk season with an epidemic outbreak already raging. As of March 30, Manitoba’s office of the chief veterinary officer (CVO) had confirmed 88 cases
Manitoba Pork has set up a new working group to tackle the spread of PED, hoping to break the two-year cycle.
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Manitoba pork sector to hone PED strategy

Recommendations from a value chain-spanning working group on PED are expected in late spring or summer 2022

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The pork sector will not have to wait long for action items to come out of a new working group to reduce PED (porcine epidemic diarrhea). Cam Dahl, general manager with the Manitoba Pork Council, says the multi-stakeholder group is already meeting, and he expects recommendations to start flowing in by late spring or early

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