Farmscape for April 28, 2021
Full Interview 10:37
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A fact sheet, issued by the Swine Health Information Center, offers pork producers and veterinarians the latest information on Streptococcus zooepidemicus. Streptococcus zooepidemicus, a common bacteria that in rare cases results...
Farmscape for April 29, 2022
Full Interview 10:35
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An Associate Professor with the Western College of Veterinary Medicine says humans present the greater risk of transmitting avian influenza than do pigs. Last week the provincial government reported that...
Farmscape for November 21, 2022
Full Interview 12:48
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The Manager of the Canada West Swine Health Intelligence Network reports the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea outbreak that has been impacting Manitoba since the fall of 2021 continues to drag out...
Farmscape for September 29, 2021
Feature Report
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USDA/APHIS ASF Webinar 1:29:51
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Dr. Alan Huddleston 14:22
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ASF Action Week Webinar (Zoom) September 14
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The Director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant...
Farmscape for August 3, 2023
Full Interview 8:42
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The Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization is targeting mid-2027 for the commercial scale distribution of a vaccine that will protect cattle from Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia. The University of Saskatchewan's Vaccine...
Researchers from the U.S., Denmark, and the Netherlands hope to reduce antimicrobial administration in pork production by aiding pigs’ natural defenses.
The $21.2 million, five-year project will be a collaboration among scientists at the University of California-Davis; Aarhus University, the...
Farmscape for March 9, 2021
Full Interview 20:30
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The Manager of the Canada West Swine Health Intelligence Network says the use of illegal vaccines in China to protect pigs from African Swine Fever is cause for world wide concern....
Farmscape for September 13, 2021
Full Interview 12:37
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The Swine Health Information Center is advising the pork sector to be thinking biosecurity as we transition from summer to fall.
As part of its September enewsletter, the Swine Health Information Center...
Farmscape for October 21, 2022
Feature Report 9:06
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The Swine Health Information Center reports, while progress is being made in dealing with African Swine Fever in the Caribbean, elimination is likely a long way off. The Swine Health...
Piglet Scouring
Post-farrowing and pre-weaning piglet scours can have large economic and production impacts in swine production. Piglets that have scours in the early post-farrowing period (1-10 days of age) have a greater probability of not surviving to weaning. When...
