Insights and Stories on Biosecurity

Canada’s pork sector up to speed, aware of challenges

Apr. 3, 2020 at 2:02 pm CDT

They’re adding protective plexiglass shields, bringing in trailers to separate groups of workers, and boosting communication on biosecurity. It’s all part of an ongoing effort to ensure pork processing plants aren’t disrupted by COVID-19. “I’m very impressed by our packers, and for the workers for coming to work every day […]

Take extra steps to keep farm workers safe during COVID-19

Mar. 18, 2020 at 7:35 pm CDT

By Alexis Kienlen

COVID-19 and farm workers: How do we manage on the farm?

Mar. 16, 2020 at 1:52 pm CDT

By Jennifer Wright

Ontario offers cash for abattoir upgrades

Feb. 20, 2020 at 2:30 am CST

By GFM Staff

Ontario draws new legal lines against on-farm trespass

Dec. 2, 2019 at 8:14 pm CST

By GFM Staff

Alberta proposes heavier penalties for on-farm trespassing

Oct. 4, 2019 at 2:56 am CDT

Alberta’s government proposes to discourage future on-farm protests — events in the style of an occupation held early last month at an Alberta Hutterite colony’s turkey farm — on pain of new penalties. Speaking Thursday at the Jumbo Valley colony near Fort Macleod, Premier Jason Kenney, Justice Minister Doug Schweitzer […]

By GFM Staff

China’s cabinet sees ‘shortcomings’ in bid to contain swine fever

Jul. 6, 2019 at 3:35 pm CDT

Beijing | Reuters — China has shown shortcomings in some aspects of preventing African swine fever, and the situation remains complicated and severe, the country’s cabinet said Wednesday. The management of transporting live hogs is not strict enough, while there is insufficient capacity in testing for African swine fever virus […]

China faces long struggle to tackle African swine fever, OIE says

May. 30, 2019 at 10:14 am CDT

Paris | Reuters — It will take years for China to contain the deadly African swine fever virus that has spread throughout the country, which is the world’s biggest pork producer, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said on Tuesday. China has been struggling to control the epidemic, which […]

By Sybille De La Hamaide

World Pork Expo cancelled over swine fever fears

Apr. 10, 2019 at 5:33 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. pork industry canceled its annual convention on Wednesday over concerns that international attendees could bring in an incurable hog disease at a time when U.S. farmers are already suffering from trade wars. The decision to scrap the World Pork Expo, held by the National […]

By Tom Polansek

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

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