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Pork producers fear increased disease risk from PEDv

U.S. truck washes are known to harbour a deadly pig virus

By Shannon VanRaes September 3, 2015

A decision by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to end measures intended to keep the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, or PEDv, out of Manitoba, has producers worried. As of October 1, trucks returning to Canada after dropping swine off in the U.S. will be required to be disinfected and cleaned at American facilities before entering Canada.

Hogs, News

PED vaccine could aid in disease fight

Developers are waiting for approval to begin clinical trials

By Shannon VanRaes July 10, 2015

Pork producers may soon have a powerful new tool in the fight against porcine epidemic diarrhea or PED. The Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization’s International Vaccine Centre at the University of Saskatchewan, better known as VIDO-InterVac, is waiting for final approvals from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to begin clinical trials of a vaccine

Hogs, Livestock, Markets

Less-potent pig virus fuels U.S. hog herd growth, but rate slows

By GFM Network News, Theopolis Waters June 27, 2015

Reuters — The U.S. hog herd grew nine per cent during the March-May quarter compared with a year ago, a U.S. Department of Agriculture report showed on Friday, reflecting better measures to combat a deadly pig virus which resulted in record pigs per litter, analysts said. However, weaker hog prices last quarter eroded farmer profits

Hogs, Livestock, Markets

Pork prices near bottom but should climb soon, analyst says

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News April 9, 2015

CNS Canada — Over a year after porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) tore into North America’s hog supply, hog production is on the upswing — but the same can’t be said for prices. “I would say prices are likely nearing the bottom. We should start to rebound here once barbecue season sets in,” said Brad Marceniuk,

Livestock

Livestock truck wash facilities to be upgraded

Sanitation process includes heating trailers to kill bacteria

By Jennifer Paige April 7, 2015

A Manitoba company has received Growing Forward 2 assistance to upgrade its livestock truck-washing facilities at Brandon and Blumenort. North America has an efficient transportation system for moving livestock, but unless precautions are taken, it can be equally efficient at transmitting disease. Manitoba Pork estimates that porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) costs the Canadian

Hogs, Livestock, Markets

USDA hog report confirms active herd growth as PED fears ease

By GFM Network News, Theopolis Waters March 27, 2015

Reuters — The U.S. hog herd grew seven per cent during the December-February quarter versus the same period last year, a U.S. Department of Agriculture report showed on Friday, reflecting producer profitability and the less-severe porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) virus, said analysts. Hog farmers willingly expanded their herds after vaccines and tighter biosecurity measures offset

Hogs

PEDv is now a ‘new normal’ for hog producers

Swine seminar participants told that despite its virulence, the disease can be managed

By Ron Friesen February 20, 2015

For Dr. Sue Burlatschenko, the most striking thing about porcine epidemic diarrhea virus in swine is the eerie silence when you enter infected nursery barns, because the baby pigs are either sick or dead and the sows are too ill to rise. “You walk into a barn at feeding time and you won’t hear a

Hogs, Livestock

Nursery barn Quebec’s sixth case of PED

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 8, 2015

Another nursery barn in Quebec’s Monteregie is the site of the province’s sixth case of porcine epidemic diarrhea in hogs, provincial officials said Thursday. The infections were confirmed Wednesday through lab tests on fecal samples from a 5,000-hog operation at St-Aime, about 30 km southeast of Sorel, Quebec’s provincial swine health team (EQSP) said in

(Manitoba Co-operator file photo by Laura Rance)

Hogs, Livestock

Two more Que. hog operations confirmed with PED

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 7, 2015

Two more hog operations in Quebec’s Monteregie — a nursery operation and a finishing barn — have been confirmed infected with porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED). Quebec’s provincial swine health team (EQSP) announced Wednesday that the two new cases — both in the St-Denis-sur-Richelieu area, about 25 km northwest of St-Hyacinthe — are “epidemiologically linked” to

Hogs, Livestock

Hog nursery barn Quebec’s third PED case

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 7, 2015

A hog nursery operation in Quebec’s Monteregie was confirmed Dec. 31 as the province’s third case of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) in hogs. Quebec has previously booked two cases of on-farm outbreaks of the PED virus (PEDv) — both at hog finishing operations in the Monteregie in February and November 2014 respectively. The latest case

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Tag Archives PEDv

Pork producers fear increased disease risk from PEDv

PED vaccine could aid in disease fight

Less-potent pig virus fuels U.S. hog herd growth, but rate slows

Pork prices near bottom but should climb soon, analyst says

Livestock truck wash facilities to be upgraded

USDA hog report confirms active herd growth as PED fears ease

PEDv is now a ‘new normal’ for hog producers

Nursery barn Quebec’s sixth case of PED

Two more Que. hog operations confirmed with PED

Hog nursery barn Quebec’s third PED case

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