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Hog code calls for group sow housing, pain control for piglets

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News March 6, 2014

Animal welfare advocates call Canada’s new code of practice for the care and handling of pigs — which commits farmers who follow it to adopt group housing for sows in any new barns built after July this year — a “watershed moment” for the industry. The revised code, replacing the previous version released in 1993, […] Read more

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Alta. biosecurity funding boosted under PED pressure

By Jennifer Blair, GFM Network News March 5, 2014

Alberta Farmer Express — As Alberta’s hog industry braces for the seemingly inevitable arrival of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED), the province has announced an early opening to a program to boost on-farm biosecurity. “Even though we do have some connections with feed now, biosecurity is still our best tool in preventing the spread of PED,” said […] Read more

CFIA’s tests “could not demonstrate” that processed feed pellets made with PED-infected hog plasma are capable of causing PED in hogs. (Photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

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PEDv infectiveness not confirmed in piglet feed: CFIA

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News March 4, 2014

Federal lab tests still can’t rule piglet feed in or out as a possible source of the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) in Canada. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Monday announced its findings after testing an Ontario company’s hog feed pellets containing U.S.-origin blood plasma from PEDv-infected hogs as an ingredient. [Related story] While […] Read more

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PEDv arrives in Sask. on soiled boots, not yet in hogs

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News March 4, 2014

Saskatchewan has now officially had a close encounter of the third kind with the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) — but not in hogs. Saskatchewan’s chief veterinary officer Dr. Betty Althouse on Friday reported a confirmed “positive environmental sample” of both PEDv and transmissible gastroenteritis (TGE) in a livestock trailer returning to the province from […] Read more

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PEDv arrives in North Dakota

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News February 28, 2014

North Dakota has become the seventh U.S./Canadian border state with a case of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) in its hog herd. The lone case so far was confirmed this week on a hog farm in the eastern part of the state, North Dakota State University said Thursday. As of Sunday, before North Dakota’s confirmation, the […] Read more

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Maple Leaf posts loss on production revamp costs

By GFM Network News February 28, 2014

Reuters — Canadian food processor Maple Leaf Foods, which has been replacing production facilities and setting up a new distribution system, reported a quarterly loss that it blamed on the “tremendous” costs of the restructuring. Maple Leaf’s multi-year program to revamp meat operations to boost profits and better compete with U.S. rivals such as Tyson […] Read more

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Rules now on books to enforce hog traceability for July 1

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News February 26, 2014

Hog farmers and handlers in Canada now officially have until July 1 to get their operations Pigtrace-compatible. Amendments to the federal Health of Animals Regulations were published Wednesday in the Canada Gazette to make traceability of farmed pigs mandatory effective July 1 this year. The same rules will also apply to farmed wild boars starting […] Read more

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PEDv in Manitoba not seen linked to feed

By GFM Network News February 25, 2014

The southeastern Manitoba hog farm confirmed Feb. 14 with porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) remains the province’s only case, as none of 45 other farms known to have had contact with the infected property have turned up any signs of the virus. But with no new Manitoba cases yet in sight, provincial officials now ask: How […] Read more

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Quebec’s first case of PEDv confirmed

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News February 24, 2014

A farm in Quebec’s Monteregie was confirmed Sunday as the province’s first case of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) in hogs. The provincial agriculture, food and fisheries department didn’t specify whether the affected farm was a farrowing and/or finishing operation or provide other details on its location or the number of mortalities, if any, when it […] Read more

Porcine epidemic diarrhea, which has reached over 3,500 farms in 25 U.S. states since last April, is now confirmed on 23 farms in Ontario, Manitoba and P.E.I. (Photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

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Manitoba, Quebec to declare PED reportable

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News February 21, 2014

Producers and veterinarians in Manitoba and labs in Quebec will soon be required by law to report porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) on hog farms. The office of Manitoba’s chief veterinary officer (CVO) announced Friday that the province “has taken the necessary steps” to add PED to its list of reportable diseases and expects the new […] Read more

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Hog code calls for group sow housing, pain control for piglets

Alta. biosecurity funding boosted under PED pressure

PEDv infectiveness not confirmed in piglet feed: CFIA

PEDv arrives in Sask. on soiled boots, not yet in hogs

PEDv arrives in North Dakota

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Rules now on books to enforce hog traceability for July 1

PEDv in Manitoba not seen linked to feed

Quebec’s first case of PEDv confirmed

Manitoba, Quebec to declare PED reportable

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