swine News
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New Funding for Swine Biosecurity Program
Today, the federal and provincial governments announced $150,000 in funding for the Saskatchewan Pork Development Board (SaskPork) to deliver a new phase in the Saskatchewan Swine Biosecurity Program. This phase aims to prevent the spread of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED) during transport of Saskatchewan hogs. This investment provides funding for truck wash and transport audits performed by ...
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Swine exchange program in Italy: Global overview of digestive processes
On November 11th and 12th, Lallemand Animal Nutrition, organized a couple of Swine Exchange meetings in partnership with 2 important key players of the Italian swine industry. The objective of the meetings was to explore and better understand the main functions of the gut, the key role of intestinal microbiota, and the influence of a probiotic solution, LEVUCELL® SB (Saccharomyces cerevisiae ...
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Swine flu illness cases confirmed in the United States and Mexico
As of 26 April 2009, the United States Government has reported 20 laboratory confirmed human cases of swine influenza A/H1N1 (8 in New York, 7 in California, 2 in Texas, 2 in Kansas and 1 in Ohio). All 20 cases have had mild Influenza-Like Illness with only one requiring brief hospitalization. No deaths have been reported. All 20 viruses have the same genetic pattern based on preliminary testing. ...
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First Lallemand Swine Exchange Forum in Spain
Under the title “Relationship of the probiotics with the intestinal functions of piglets”, Lallemand Animal Nutrition organized its first Swine Exchange Forum at the Faculty of Veterinary Science of the University of Zaragoza, in Spain, June 11th. The goal was to explore the role of probiotics in the intestinal functions of pigs, like microbiota regulation, nutrients digestion and the ...
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UF/IFAS study: Feral swine can cost at least $2 million annually in cattle production
Feral swine cost the Florida cattle industry at least $2 million a year in lost cattle production, according to a new study led by a University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences researcher. In fact, researchers believe they may have underestimated the amount of forage destroyed by feral swine, said Samantha Wisely, a UF/IFAS associate professor of wildlife ecology and ...
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Barcelona says Hola! To the 7th International LEVUCELL SB Technical meeting
On May 25 & 26, around 150 swine professionals from around the world gathered in Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia, Spain’s number one region for pig production, for the 7th International LEVUCELL® SB Technical meeting. The swine industry has changed a lot over the past few years and so have the challenges faced by producers. Meeting after meeting, we have seen evolution of the ...
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Swine Educative Program Roll-Out
A few months after the launch of its swine educative program conducted in partnership with its Monogastric Centre Of Excellence, Lallemand Animal Nutrition organized the first French session focused on piglet. Twelve technicians from French cooperative CAVAC gathered for an educative session dedicated to: piglets gut functions, digestive pathologies and the role of probiotics. Technical ...
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Discussing Oxidative Stress with top European Pig Producers
Early June, Lallemand Animal Nutrition was proud to take part in the European Pig Producers (EPP) Annual Congress in Bruges, Belgium, both as a sponsor and technical contributor. David Saornil, Swine Product Manager, was invited to give a talk about Oxidative Stress in Swine, an important issue of modern pig production, particularly at critical steps of the swine cycle. The Congress was attended ...
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Swine influenza in the US and Mexico a public health event of international concern
In a communication following the meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (IHR) yesterday, Margret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the swine flu outbreaks in Mexico and the United States are a public health event of international concern (PHEIC). However, the Committee decided not to raise the pandemic alert level ...
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Addfield Deploy the Rapid1000
Always ready to make the impossible, possible, high capacity disaster preparedness is in the Addfield DNA. Our outstanding team can respond to very much any situation from Ebola to Swine Flu and of course Avian Flu. Our services are called upon as part of a much wider team, our proactivity to meet compliance on many current day outbreaks and crisis situation is why Addfield are the market ...
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Pork Industry Better Equipped to Prevent and Respond to Disease
Through Growing Forward 2, the governments of Canada and Alberta are providing $1.35 million to Alberta Pork to help address the threat of pig diseases, such asporcine epidemic diarrhea (PED), to the swine industry. The funding is in addition to existing Growing Forward 2 grants that are available to pork producers and farm service providers to enhance biosecurity measures in their operations. ...
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Addfield Deploy the Rapid1000
Addfield’s Rapid Response Team in action 21st December 2016, 2 Days before the Christmas Break. Always ready to make the impossible, possible, high capacity disaster preparedness is in the Addfield DNA. Our outstanding team can respond to very much any situation from Ebola to Swine Flu and of course Avian Flu. Our services are called upon as part of a much wider team, our proactivity to ...
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Addfield Deploy the Rapid1000
Addfield’s Rapid Response Team in action 21st December 2016, 2 Days before the Christmas Break. Always ready to make the impossible, possible, high capacity disaster preparedness is in the Addfield DNA. Our outstanding team can respond to very much any situation from Ebola to Swine Flu and of course Avian Flu. Our services are called upon as part of a much wider team, our proactivity to ...
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Experts highlight lack of swine flu diagnostics
Many developing countries have 'extremely limited capacity' to diagnose diseases such as swine flu and are likely to remain this way for decades, according to a public health expert specialising in pandemic preparedness. There has been substantial investment in developing countries to support animal and human health surveillance, says Richard Coker, professor of public health at the UK-based ...
By SciDev.Net
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EPA executes warrant in Hughes County, Oklahoma (OK)
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), accompanied by inspectors from the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry (ODAFF), U.S. Marshals and officials from the Hughes County Sheriff’s Department, executed a warrant at Bishop Farms I and II, in Hughes County, Oklahoma, the EPA announced today. Once the warrant was served on Tuesday, July 6, EPA and ODAFF conducted a joint ...
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Animal Consumption Drives Higher U.S. Soy Exports to EU
Customers in the European Union (EU) depend on U.S. soybean farmers to maintain a consistent supply of soybean meal. Currently, they account for nearly 13 percent of total U.S. soybean meal exports. And that level is growing. Although U.S. soybean market share in the EU has declined over the last 30 years, U.S. soybean meal export trade to Europe grew in 2013, thanks in part to intensified ...
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OIE Approves Registration of VetMAX African Swine Fever Virus Detection Kit in Diagnostics Manual
The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) recently approved the registration of the Applied Biosystems VetMAX African Swine Fever Virus Detection Kit from Thermo Fisher Scientific in the OIE manual of diagnostic testing. It is the first African swine fever (ASF) kit to be registered by the OIE. “The addition of our ASF detection kit to the OIE manual marks a key milestone in our ...
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Lallemand Animal Nutrition continues to deploy its “Swine Exchange”
As part of its Forward approach focusing on education and service, Lallemand Animal Nutrition continues to develop its Swine Exchange concept. The last Exchange was held in France with the Bellanné company in partnership with the Bocavet Veterinary Clinic in December 2015. This technical meeting gathered a small group of technicians and farmers. After this session, all the attendees were ...
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New swine vaccine is first U.S.-approved PRRS-Mhp combination
The first and only combination PRRS-Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (Mhp) vaccine approved in the U.S. is now available to help swine producers better manage respiratory diseases as part of a customized program of whole herd health. FLEXMycoPRRS is the newest addition to the FLEX line of combination swine vaccines by Boehringer Ingelheim (BI). FLEXMycoPRRS combines the efficacy of the world’s ...
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African Swine Fever devastates swine herds across Europe.
This year has seen the return of one of the most devastating agricultural viruses for pigs. With over 100 reports of the highly contagious outbreak of African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV-Asfarviridae) across Europe and Asia recorded during the start of autumn. Although African Swine Fever was believed to have been wiped out throughout Europe in the 1990s its return has been expected following the ...
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