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Grants available to help with traceability programs

Traceability technology helps to track animals or food products from farm to consumer

By Angela Lovell October 15, 2015

Traceability is a high priority for the livestock industry in Canada, and federal and provincial governments have been working in collaboration with the industry to develop a National Agriculture and Food Traceability System, primarily focusing on livestock and poultry. Traceability, according to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s website is the ability to follow an item or […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

Avian flu risk higher with fall migrations

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News September 15, 2015

Poultry farmers in Ontario are being warned to keep biosecurity top of mind as wild birds get ready to fly south this fall. “With the fall weather quickly approaching, resulting in colder temperatures and wild bird migrations, the threat of re-emergence of (highly pathogenic avian influenza) is real,” the Feather Board Command Centre, the emergency […] Read more

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

SW Ontario pullet flock’s ILT contained

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News July 3, 2015

A warning to southwestern Ontario’s poultry producers in May to step up biosecurity over a non-avian-flu-related disease outbreak has been lifted. The Feather Board Command Centre, the emergency response office for Ontario’s poultry and egg sector boards, last week issued a “stand down” for heightened biosecurity, following an outbreak of avian infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT) in […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Sysco sees U.S. bird flu hurting egg supply up to 18 months

By GFM Network News May 15, 2015

New York | Reuters — Food distributor Sysco Corp. said on Friday that a record U.S. outbreak of avian flu would limit its chicken and egg supply for nine to 18 months, based on information provided to the company by its suppliers. Sysco is the biggest U.S. food distributor, whose clients include restaurants, hotels and […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

U.S. could use vaccines being developed to fight bird flu in poultry

By GFM Network News April 22, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — Faced with a deadly bird flu outbreak that has infected millions of chickens and turkeys, the U.S. Agriculture Department could turn to what it has always seen as a last resort: readying and deploying a vaccine to fight the disease. Up to now, USDA has said it would prefer not to […] Read more

Crops, News

Biosecurity and visitors on the farm

Biosecurity is something we usually connect to livestock.  These days grain farmers should be knowledgeable too

By Shanyn Silinski March 19, 2015

Anyone involved in animal agriculture is familiar with bio-security, especially in businesses involving confined livestock like birds (eggs and broilers) and swine. Beef and dairy have in the past few decades moved towards having stronger biosecurity measures in the face of FMD’s (foreign animal diseases) and increasing traceability for livestock movements. Farm visitors can be […] Read more

Keep the beef herd “closed” as much as possible to reduce the risk of introducing a disease your herd may not be prepared for. And at calving, provide as much space for animals as possible to avoid overcrowding which reduces the risk of disease spread.

Beef Cattle, Cattleman’s Corner

Tips for a healthy calf crop

On-farm biosecurity to reduce disease risk just makes good business sense

By Roy Lewis February 13, 2015

Calving season poses the greatest risk for spread of disease on our farms or between neighbouring farms and this is repeated every year. That makes it worth reviewing some common biosecurity practices, which should be stepped up to prevent a scours, respiratory or other disease outbreak. It is a time when both the cow herd, […] Read more

Canola, Crops

Manitoba canola pest lab backed for equipment, research

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News January 30, 2015

A new Manitoba lab with federal, provincial and canola industry backing has been opened with the goal of staying a step ahead of canola diseases such as clubroot and verticillium wilt. The federal and Manitoba governments on Thursday announced $969,000 for equipment, including a polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) machine, and $250,000 for research at the […] Read more

Hogs, Livestock

Nursery barn Quebec’s sixth case of PED

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News 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 […] Read more

GFM Network News

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Tag Archives biosecurity

Grants available to help with traceability programs

Avian flu risk higher with fall migrations

SW Ontario pullet flock’s ILT contained

Sysco sees U.S. bird flu hurting egg supply up to 18 months

U.S. could use vaccines being developed to fight bird flu in poultry

Biosecurity and visitors on the farm

Tips for a healthy calf crop

Manitoba canola pest lab backed for equipment, research

Nursery barn Quebec’s sixth case of PED

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