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The Karim Allah, a livestock ship carrying over 800 Spanish cattle stranded with suspected bluetongue disease, is docked at Escombreras in Cartagena, Spain on Feb. 26, 2021. (Photo: Reuters/Juan Medina)

Greece delivers feed to cattle ship at sea for months

By Reuters, GFM Network News March 10, 2021

Athens | Reuters — Greece will deliver 50 tons of animal feed to the Togo-flagged Elbeik, which has been stuck at sea for nearly three months in the Mediterranean carrying hundreds of cattle rejected by their buyers amid fears of disease, government sources said Tuesday. The vessel is expected to sail for Spain once the […] Read more

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Spanish report calls for cull of over 850 cattle on pariah ship

Cattle were bound for Turkey but turned away over bluetongue fears

By Nathan Allen, Marco Trujillo, GFM Network News February 26, 2021

Cartagena | Reuters — More than 850 cows that spent months aboard a ship wandering across the Mediterranean are not fit for transport anymore and should be killed, according to a confidential report by Spanish government veterinarians seen by Reuters. The cows were kept in what an animal rights activist called “hellish” conditions on the […] Read more

Cattle on pasture in the Philippines. (LeoLee/iStock/Getty Images)

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Sheep/Goats

Canadian cattle’s access to Philippines restored

By Dave Bedard October 18, 2018

The regulatory path has been cleared to resume exports of live Canadian cattle to the Philippines, reopening a market worth an estimated $8 million per year. The federal government on Monday announced the resumed export clearance, along with new market access for Canadian sheep and goat genetics exports to both Indonesia and the Philippines. The […] Read more

Culicoides sonorensis. (Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Sheep/Goats, Weather

Livestock seen threatened as biting insects press north

By Alberta Farmer Staff September 23, 2015

Bluetongue’s most recent appearance in the Canadian cattle herd may be a taste of what’s to come as insect species expand northward, a new study warns. Anna Zuliani, previously a graduate student in veterinary medicine at the University of Calgary (UCVM), recently published a paper on how geographical distribution of biting midges relates to the […] Read more

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ADM quarterly profit surges amid strong U.S. corn exports to China

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Greece delivers feed to cattle ship at sea for months

Spanish report calls for cull of over 850 cattle on pariah ship

Canadian cattle’s access to Philippines restored

Livestock seen threatened as biting insects press north

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