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File photo of a farmed mink. (Konstantin Sokolov/iStock/Getty Images)

Dutch to cull mink at farms hit by COVID-19 outbreak

Order follows mink-to-human virus transmissions

By GFM Network News June 3, 2020

Amsterdam | Reuters — The Dutch government on Wednesday ordered mink culled at nine farms where animals have been infected with the coronavirus, fearing they could form a reservoir of disease infecting humans after the country’s current outbreak has passed. “Clearing the infected farms is in the interest of both human health and animal health,” […] Read more

Hogs, Livestock, Reuters

JBS reopens Minnesota pork plant to cull pigs

By Reuters, GFM Network News April 29, 2020

Chicago | Reuters — Meat producer JBS said Wednesday it was reopening a Minnesota pork plant shuttered by the pandemic to euthanize up to 13,000 pigs a day for farmers, not to produce meat for consumers. U.S. farmers have been forced to cull livestock as they run short of space to house animals after some […] Read more

CME June 2020 lean hogs with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hogs limit up on fears of tightening supplies

Cattle up on rising beef packer margins

By GFM Network News April 28, 2020

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures rose their daily limit on Monday on fears of tightening domestic pork supplies as the coronavirus pandemic forces slowdowns at slaughterhouses, analysts said. June lean hog futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange settled up the daily maximum of 3.75 cents at 55.275 cents/lb., the contract’s highest since […] Read more

Workers in protective suits disinfect a vehicle at a checkpoint on a road leading to a farm owned by Hebei Dawu Group where African swine fever was detected, in Xushui district of Baoding, Hebei province, China on Feb. 26, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Hallie Gu)

Hogs, Livestock, Reuters

Piles of pigs: Swine fever outbreaks go unreported in rural China

By GFM Network News March 20, 2019

Baoding, China | Reuters — When pigs on the Xinda Husbandry breeding farm in northern China began dying in growing numbers in early January, it looked increasingly likely that the farm had been struck by the much feared African swine fever, an incurable disease that has spread rapidly across the country since last year. But […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Troops to help cull fowl in Philippines’ bird flu battle

By Reuters, GFM Network News August 16, 2017

Manila | Reuters — The Philippines will deploy hundreds of troops to hasten a cull of about 600,000 fowl, the farm minister said on Wednesday, as part of efforts to rein in the Southeast Asian nation’s first outbreak of bird flu. There has been no case of human transmission after the flu was detected on […] Read more

GFM Network News

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Tag Archives cull

Dutch to cull mink at farms hit by COVID-19 outbreak

JBS reopens Minnesota pork plant to cull pigs

U.S. livestock: Hogs limit up on fears of tightening supplies

Piles of pigs: Swine fever outbreaks go unreported in rural China

Troops to help cull fowl in Philippines’ bird flu battle

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