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Alberta’s PED outbreak so far held to one spot

By GFM Network News January 18, 2019

The probe into Alberta’s first-ever outbreak of porcine epidemic diarrhea hasn’t yet shown any paths by which the PED virus might have got to the farm — nor any new cases anywhere else in the province. The provincial government on Jan. 7 confirmed the first case of PED to appear in hogs in Alberta, at […] Read more

The Belgian border near Lille in northern France. (Beeldbewerking/iStock/Getty Images)

Hogs, Livestock, Reuters

Fearful of swine fever, France to put up fence on Belgian border

By Reuters, GFM Network News October 12, 2018

Strasbourg, France | Reuters — France will put up fencing along its border with Belgium to prevent wild boars spreading African swine fever, a virulent livestock disease that could disrupt Europe’s pig industry. France has been on alert for African swine fever since Belgium detected the virus last month among wild boars a few kilometres […] Read more

Cattle graze at a military base in Florida. (Wirepec/iStock/Getty Images)

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

Florida finds atypical BSE case

By GFM Network News August 30, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — A six-year-old beef cow in Florida tested positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday. The animal tested positive for atypical H-type BSE on Aug. 26 at the Colorado State University’s veterinary diagnostic laboratory, as part of routine surveillance of cattle that are found to […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock

More BSE tests, no BSE seen in 2016

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News February 6, 2017

Canadian beef cattle producers handed over more samples in 2016 than in 2015 to be tested for BSE, turning up zero cases of the brain-wasting disease. The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association on Monday reported 27,346 samples were submitted to the national BSE surveillance program in 2016 — up four per cent from 26,285 in 2015, but […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs

Avian flu controls lifted in 10 U.S. states

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News August 7, 2015

U.S. animal health officials have closed the books for now on avian influenza infections in 10 states, with five others remaining. In its latest report to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) last week, the U.S. federal Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) said all control areas for avian flu have been released […] Read more

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs

Movement restrictions lifted on B.C. birds

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News March 11, 2015

British Columbia’s poultry producers no longer need federal permits to move their wares in the province. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed Wednesday it has removed its avian influenza primary control zone (PCZ) — a zone which had covered the entire southern half of B.C., including Vancouver Island and the Queen Charlotte Islands. CFIA in […] Read more

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

U.S. livestock: Cattle strength continues

GFM Network News

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

U.S. livestock: Cattle strength continues

Tag Archives surveillance

Alberta’s PED outbreak so far held to one spot

Fearful of swine fever, France to put up fence on Belgian border

Florida finds atypical BSE case

More BSE tests, no BSE seen in 2016

Avian flu controls lifted in 10 U.S. states

Movement restrictions lifted on B.C. birds

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