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Good handling equipment a must on cattle operations

The right cattle handling setup can save labour and make working with livestock safer for both cattle and farmer

By Roy Lewis October 22, 2025

For the safety of cattle producers and everyone else dealing with their livestock, including veterinarians who need animals to be safely contained and restrained for treatment, handling systems need to be functional and well maintained, Roy Lewis writes.

Beef cattle line up at a pasture fence. Photo Diana Martin

Livestock

A new vaccine for bovine tuberculosis? Maybe not yet, but a step closer

Canadian research suggests bovine TB vaccine candidate MSX-1 may finally offer some protection without interfering with tuberculosis test results, but it’s still early days

By Jeff Melchior September 15, 2025

Bovine TB vaccine candidate MSX-1 may finally offer cattle some disease protection without interfering with tuberculosis test results, but it’s still early days.

Workers from the China's Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department carry out a cull at a pig farm in southern China in 2023 after samples were found positive for African swine fever. Photo: Dickson Lee/SCMP via Reuters Connect

Livestock

Mixed results on new African swine fever vaccine

The new African swine fever vaccine still has issues, but also gave researchers insight into how virus strain impacts protection against the deadly pig disease

By Jeff Melchior September 3, 2025

The new African swine fever vaccine still has issues, but also gave researchers insight into how virus strain impacts protection against the deadly pig disease.

Cattle at Whiskey Creek Ranch are rotationally grazed intensively, moved every two to three days. (Jeremy Simes Photo)

Livestock

Hot tips for cow-calf beef producers

From cattle vaccination and stomach ulcers to headline-making diseases like bovine tuberculosis: Thoughts from a long-time western Canadian veterinarian

By Roy Lewis September 1, 2025

From cattle vaccination and stomach ulcers to headline-making diseases like bovine tuberculosis: Thoughts from a long-time western Canadian veterinarian

A quarantine area sign is attached to a tree at a quarantine zone after an outbreak of Bird flu in Victoria, Australia. Photo: AAP Image/Supplied by Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action via Reuters

Livestock, News, Reuters

Global animal health body says vaccines needed to protect humans, trade from bird flu

By Reuters, Sybille De La Hamaide May 23, 2025

Vaccinating more animals against bird flu could help protect public health and keep global trade flowing said the head of the World Organization for Animal Health.

News

Federal government stocks up on human bird flu vaccine

By Geralyn Wichers February 19, 2025

The Canadian government has secured 500,000 doses of a human vaccine against avian influenza as part of a contingency plan to protect those at most risk for the disease.

Cattle graze north of Deerwood in September 2023. PHOTO: ALEXIS STOCKFORD

Livestock

Federal government opens bids for foot and mouth vaccine bank providers

By Alexis Stockford August 30, 2024

Canadian government opens bids for foot and mouth vaccine bank providers.

Livestock

Two dozen companies working to find bird flu vaccine for cows, US agriculture secretary says

By Leah Douglas June 13, 2024

Reuters – Twenty-four companies are working to develop an avian flu vaccine for cattle, as the virus spreads among U.S. dairy herds, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told Reuters on Wednesday. Bird flu has infected 90 dairy herds across 12 states since late March, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Three dairy farm workers

US is ’18 months or so’ away from finding bird flu vaccine, says agriculture secretary

USDA plans to discuss poultry vaccinations with trading partners amid trade restriction concerns

By GFM Network News, Leah Douglas, Reuters February 14, 2024

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is "18 months or so" away from identifying a vaccine for the current strain of bird flu and is developing a process to distribute it, said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Wednesday.

“It can sit dormant [on] equipment for years and years until hive stressors and hive conditions are right for it to infect the colony.” – Osee Podolsky, Canadian Honey Council.

News

American foulbrood vaccine gets Canadian green light

Producers will be able to get the vaccine in spring 2024

By Don Norman November 1, 2023

Canadian beekeepers are about to have the first vaccine for their stock. “It’s very exciting,” said Canadian Honey Council hive health specialist Osee Podolsky. The new vaccine targets American foulbrood, a spore-producing bacterial disease that gets its name from the unpleasant smell in infected hives. The disease is serious enough that standard industry practice for most symptomatic colonies is

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Tag Archives Vaccines

Good handling equipment a must on cattle operations

A new vaccine for bovine tuberculosis? Maybe not yet, but a step closer

Mixed results on new African swine fever vaccine

Hot tips for cow-calf beef producers

Global animal health body says vaccines needed to protect humans, trade from bird flu

Federal government stocks up on human bird flu vaccine

Federal government opens bids for foot and mouth vaccine bank providers

Two dozen companies working to find bird flu vaccine for cows, US agriculture secretary says

US is ’18 months or so’ away from finding bird flu vaccine, says agriculture secretary

American foulbrood vaccine gets Canadian green light

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