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An eight-year-old handler walks her best-in-class York Barrow pig on June 4, 2014 at World Pork Expo in Des Moines. (File photo: Reuters/Lane Hickenbottom)

Canada, U.S. plan trade zones for whenever swine fever hits

By GFM Staff May 25, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Federal officials in Canada and the U.S. have agreed on zone defense, so to speak, to allow safe trade of hogs and pork products if African swine fever should turn up in hogs in either country. Canada’s chief veterinary officer Dr. Jaspinder Komal and U.S. CVO Dr. Jack Shere said Wednesday the two countries have […] Read more

Hogs, Reuters

China finds more cases of African swine fever on Hainan island

By Cate Cadell April 22, 2019

Reading Time: < 1 minute Beijing | Reuters – China has detected new cases of African swine fever in six farms across four locations in Hainan province, the agriculture ministry said on Sunday, adding to two earlier cases of the contagious disease identified in the province on Friday. The disease, which is fatal to pigs but harmless in humans, has […] Read more

‘Piggy’ greets visitors at the entrance to Mogens and Bente Dall’s property in southern Denmark.

Guide Business, Livestock

The two sides of Denmark

They share so much, but under it all the Peterson and Dall farms have made some very different choices

By Marianne Stamm April 5, 2019

Reading Time: 9 minutes Two farmers; two philosophies. Jorgen Popp Peterson and Mogens Dall are hog farmers in southern Denmark. Both are 55 years old. Each has adult children, both wives work off-farm, and each man is also heavily involved in politics, and on agricultural councils as well. But amid the similarities, there is this great difference. One farms […] 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 Dominique Patton March 20, 2019

Reading Time: 6 minutes 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

A beagle. (BPretorius/iStock/Getty Images)

Hogs, Livestock, Reuters

U.S. to train more beagles to sniff out swine fever

By Reuters March 6, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. government will increase the number of dogs used to sniff out illegal pork products at airports and seaports in an effort to keep out a contagious hog disease that has spread across Asia and Europe, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday. The disease, African swine fever, can […] Read more

Hogs, Livestock

PEDv arrives in Alberta hogs

By GFM Staff January 8, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Veterinary officials in Alberta are now investigating the province’s first-ever outbreak of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) in hogs. Alberta Pork, the province’s hog producer commission, and the provincial government on Tuesday announced an outbreak of the viral disease at what was described as a “400-head hog operation.” Javier Bahamon, quality assurance and production manager for […] Read more

Hogs, Markets, Reuters

Hog industry worldwide getting slaughtered in trade war

By Ana Mano, Hallie Gu, Tom Polansek October 26, 2018

Reading Time: 5 minutes Beijing/Chicago/Carambei | Reuters – Ken Maschhoff, chairman of the largest U.S. family-owned pork producer, has watched profits fall as trade tensions rise between the United States and China. His company, The Machhoffs, has halted U.S. projects worth up to $30 million and may move some operations overseas. Investing in domestic operations now would be “ludicrous” […] Read more

The USDA wants sick pigs immediately reported so they can be tested for African swine fever. Photo: File

Hogs, Livestock, Reuters

U.S. farmers, government fight risk of African swine fever

By Tom Polansek October 22, 2018

Reading Time: 3 minutes Chicago | Reuters – U.S. hog farmers are ramping up safety procedures and leaving animal-feed ingredients imported from China in storage in an attempt to keep out a highly contagious swine disease that is sweeping through Asia and Europe. U.S. government officials said in interviews on Friday they are also increasing their ability to test […] Read more

Hogs, Livestock, Reuters

China culls more pigs as authorities race to trace African swine fever source

By Hallie Gu, Josephine Mason August 24, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes Beijing | Reuters – China is culling over 1,300 pigs as authorities rush to control a fourth outbreak of African swine fever and try to trace the origins of the virus that first struck the world’s largest hog herd three weeks ago. Authorities in the eastern province of Zhejiang said they would slaughter 1,332 hogs […] Read more

Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. March hog herd hits record high

By Theopolis Waters March 30, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — The number of hogs on U.S. farms in the December-February quarter was up 3.1 per cent from the same period a year ago, a record high for the quarter, according to Thursday’s U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) report. Farmers added extra pigs, encouraged by less-costly feed during that period and the […] Read more

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Canada, U.S. plan trade zones for whenever swine fever hits

China finds more cases of African swine fever on Hainan island

The two sides of Denmark

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

U.S. to train more beagles to sniff out swine fever

PEDv arrives in Alberta hogs

Hog industry worldwide getting slaughtered in trade war

U.S. farmers, government fight risk of African swine fever

China culls more pigs as authorities race to trace African swine fever source

U.S. March hog herd hits record high

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