Insights and Stories on Hogs

China eyes U.S. poultry, pork imports in trade talks

Apr. 16, 2019 at 5:18 pm CDT

Reuters — China would likely lift a ban on U.S. poultry as part of a trade deal and may buy more pork to meet a growing supply deficit, but it is not willing to allow a prohibited growth drug used in roughly half the U.S. hog herd, two sources with […]

World Pork Expo cancelled over swine fever fears

Apr. 10, 2019 at 5:33 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

Canada’s pork industry on high alert

Apr. 5, 2019 at 4:05 pm CDT

By Jennifer Betzner

Quebec books new PED outbreak

Mar. 26, 2019 at 8:04 pm CDT

China’s pork imports seen doubling in 2019 on swine fever impact

Mar. 22, 2019 at 1:04 pm CDT

By Dominique Patton Hallie Gu

Swine fever in China poses risks, rewards for Canadian pork

Mar. 20, 2019 at 9:16 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Sharp losses in China’s hog herd due to African swine fever (ASF) are underpinning the North American pork market and could create export opportunities for Canada — if this country manages to stay disease-free. ASF does not affect humans, but the highly viral disease is nearly 100 per […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

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

Mar. 20, 2019 at 2:37 pm CDT

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 […]

By Dominique Patton

Alberta confirms fourth PED outbreak

Mar. 18, 2019 at 8:03 pm CDT

Alberta took another punch last week in its fight with porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED), having confirmed the province’s fourth on-farm case of the disease. Officials with the provincial ag department and Alberta Pork haven’t said where the fourth case is located, nor how far it is from the three southern […]

By GFM Staff

U.S. seizes pork from China on swine fever concerns

Mar. 18, 2019 at 5:32 am CDT

Washington | Reuters — U.S. border agents have seized around one million pounds of pork from China, a spokesman for the agency said on Friday, over suspicions that it might contain African swine flu disease which has hit Chinese pork output. Federal agents have seized the supplies over the past […]

By Reuters

Canada to boost airport detector dog corps

Mar. 15, 2019 at 3:48 am CDT

With African swine fever top of mind, the federal government plans to more than double the total number of detector dog teams at Canada’s airports within five years. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, speaking in Montreal Thursday, announced new funding of up to $31 million over five years to add 24 […]

By Dave Bedard