Reading Time: < 1 minute Alberta Pork release – The Alberta pig-handling facility where swine delta coronavirus had been previously detected was retested on Nov. 3, with all tests coming back negative for both coronavirus and porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv). The facility had voluntarily suspended operations following the initial positive test, and has now resumed business. Surveillance testing of high-risk […] Read more
Second coronavirus tests come back negative for pig-handling facility
Pork producers warned to treat assembly yards, abattoirs and truck washes as potentially contaminated
Pork producers urged to remain vigilant for PED virus over the fall and winter
New cases of porcine epidemic diarrhea in Manitoba have Alberta producers being warned not to drop their guard
Reading Time: 4 minutes Alberta pork producers are being warned to remain vigilant about a deadly pig virus, but may face another threat — falling prices if the U.S. herd rebounds from the PEDv crisis. The province’s pork sector has been successful in keeping porcine epidemic diarrhea out of Alberta, but new cases in Manitoba in the past month […] Read more
Alberta Pork optimistic despite Russia’s tit-for-tat sanctions
Numerous agricultural products are being shut out of Russia, but pork is most affected
Reading Time: 3 minutes Russia’s ban on Canadian pork will have some impact, but the executive director of Alberta Pork says the hope is that it will be more of “a big hiccup” than a severe blow. “We had the same problem with our ractopamine last year, where almost half of the pork that was shipped from Canada to […] Read more
Finally some good news for bruised and battered pork producers
PEDv has pushed down hog supply and sent prices soaring
Reading Time: 3 minutes Murray Markert sums up the mood of Alberta pork producers these days in a single word. “Relief,” said the Vulcan farmer when asked about recent record-high pork prices. “The money we’re getting right now will help fill in the hole that most of us dug to stay in the game.” For most, that likely means […] Read more
Alberta pork producers on high alert after PEDv reaches Ontario
Alberta Pork rolls out action plan, calls on producers to plug any gaps in their biosecurity procedures
Reading Time: 4 minutes Many of Alberta’s pork producers were gathered at the Banff Pork Seminar when news broke that Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PEDv) had been found on a farm in Ontario. But there was also good news — Alberta Pork has a battle plan in place and the province’s 350 commercial producers have a couple of things […] Read more
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