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Protection related to animal health and food safety issues begins at the farm level, and the acronym “IRS” plays an important role: isolation, resistance and sanitation.

Greece reported its first case of African swine fever at a pig breeding farm in the northern part of the country this week, agriculture ministry officials in Greece said on Thursday.

The U.S. has robust export markets and a lower cost of production than many other countries, but Joe Connor says cost of production could be even lower if we focus on eliminating diseases rather than controlling them.

Leading U.S. animal-health group recommends strategies to improve testing methods to keep African swine fever and other foreign animal diseases from entering U.S. pig herds.

Research shows ASF virus lasts longer in feed than scientists first expected.

Animal rights activism ranked as the number one challenge for the future of the pork industry, according to a 2019 Farm Journal survey. Here are four ways you can protect your farm from animal activists.

The annual series of Iowa Pork Regional Conferences has been a long-standing partnership of Iowa Pork Producers Association, Iowa State University Extension and Outreach and the Iowa Pork Industry Center.

Balinese authorities have confirmed that Bali, the tropical island destination in Indonesia, has now been struck by African swine fever.

ASF doesn’t just affect the pork industry, reminded Jennifer Tirey, executive director of the Illinois Pork Producers Association during its annual meeting on Tuesday. If ASF enters the U.S., everyone will be impacted.

Joel Haggard, USMEF senior vice president for the Asia Pacific, who is based in Hong Kong, offers observations on how the spread of coronavirus is impacting food demand and distribution in the Greater China region.

The state of Brandenburg, Germany has installed about 75 miles of electric fencing to deter wild boars infected with African swine fever (ASF) from crossing the border it shares with Poland and infecting its pig herd.

On Sunday, the Philippine Department of Agriculture reported an outbreak of African swine fever in a southern province in the Philippines, the world's 10th-largest pork consumer.

Two completely different viral outbreaks are making international headlines and originating in China – one affects people and one affects pigs. They share the similarity of being viruses, but that’s where it ends.

A sample collected by Alberta’s swine disease surveillance program has tested weak environmental positive for porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) virus.

A new African swine fever vaccine shows promise for the pork industry. Dave Pyburn, DVM, chief veterinarian for the National Pork Board, says it's one of the best vaccine candidates he's seen so far.

Do you think the U.S. swine herd will get African swine fever? I watched her face as she worked to pull together everything she could to come up with the right answer. That’s a tough question for a 13-year-old.

Data from almost 30,000 feed mills indicate that ASF had a hand in the 1.07% decrease in metric tons of feed produced.

Pigs in Okinawa Prefecture in Japan may have been infected with classical swine fever, also known as hog cholera, through leftover food scraps, experts commissioned by the agricultural ministry in Japan said.

To bolster the nation’s defenses against foreign animal diseases, NPPC is urging the House Committee on Homeland Security to approve funding for additional CBP personnel to conduct agricultural inspections.

Nearly 10 metric tons of pork from China were seized and destroyed by Italy’s tax police, police in the northeastern city of Padoa said on Wednesday.

The toll continues to rise of African swine fever (ASF) outbreaks in South Korea. Three more wild boars were found dead near the border with North Korea, bringing the number of ASF cases to 86 in South Korea.

This month, the VIDO-InterVac facility will begin work with the virus in its Containment Level 3-Agriculture facility in Saskatoon. It is the first non-government facility to work with the virus in Canada.

For the first time in over 30 years, an outbreak of classical swine fever, also known as hog cholera, is resulting in thousands of pigs being culled on the Japanese island of Okinawa.

Researchers are continuing to look into African swine fever and they're finding the half-life of the disease in feed is longer than originally thought.

Everyone’s talking about LiLou, the airport therapy pig. But with all of the foreign animal disease pressure throughout the world right now, should we be using pigs as airport therapy animals?

In this time of heightened biosecurity awareness, the importance of an effective disease barrier system for rodent control in and around hog buildings can’t be overstated.

“Potter,” a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agriculture detector dog, helped seize nearly 14 pounds of prohibited food products at the Philadelphia International Airport.

The Government of Japan wants to add African swine fever to the list of targeted diseases that allows preventative culls of healthy hogs in case of an ASF outbreak, according to the latest USDA FAS GAIN report.

Rodents can cause major problems due to destruction and contamination of food, in addition to disease spread, say two experts at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries takes a closer look at what feral hogs are eating to better understand the destruction they are causing.

With the threat of African swine fever across the globe, biosecurity is more important now than ever. Here’s a recap of our most-read biosecurity-focused articles from 2019.

From PRRS to African swine fever, experts share their thoughts on some of the most troublesome global swine diseases and health challenges in Pipestone Veterinary Corner. Here’s a recap.

The U.S. House of Representatives approved an additional $19.6 million in funding for more agricultural inspectors at land, air and seaports to prevent ASF and other foreign animal diseases from entering U.S. borders.

Chinese gang criminals are at it again – intensifying China’s African swine fever (ASF) crisis by spreading rumors to force farmers to sell their pigs at lower prices, Bloomberg reports.

African swine fever has officially been confirmed in Indonesia, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations reported Thursday.

Follow the "NO PRRS" steps to achieve sanitation.

Poland’s agriculture minister has proposed that army and police personnel should be allowed to shoot and kill wild boar on a large scale in areas that are affected by ASF to help fight the disease.

Porcine circovirus type 3 (PCV3) was first reported in 2016, but appears to have been present in swine populations decades prior to that time, said Bailey Arruda, DVM.

Key elements of a successful biosecurity program are often neglected, says Jean-Pierre Vaillancourt, DVM, a professor at the University of Montreal in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada. You can change that outlook.

ASF continues its steady, all-encompassing spread across Asia. While U.S. pork production differs significantly from Asia’s industry, Juan LuBroth shares lessons about this virus from other countries’ experiences.

Biosecurity is described as a combination of management practices designed to prevent the introduction and transmission of diseases and disease-causing agents into a herd. Learn what your biosecurity plan should include

An outbreak of African Swine Fever has killed 21 wild boar in Poland, near the German border, according to the agriculture minister.

A fence intended to prevent wild boars from bringing African swine fever into Denmark is getting pushback from critics who say the fence is a waste of money against a problem that doesn’t exist.

Planning for the unexpected is not easy. But take it from the poultry industry who learned this lesson the hard way with avian influenza – an emergency plan is always worth the time and effort.

Clean water is critical for livestock. That’s why annual water quality tests are recommended for private wells. Owners can have their water tested by collecting a sample themselves or hiring a qualified person to do so

When it comes to water quality, there’s no “one size fits all” Some areas of the country just have poor quality to begin with. Producers and veterinarians need to find root cause, then implement effective solutions

It's thought African swine fever has wiped out up to 50% of China's pig population. U.S. Farm Report Host Tyne Morgan has more on the impact ASF could have on protein and feed demand.

A special month-long biosecurity effort in October tested Australia’s ability to keep African swine fever (ASF) out of their country.

Although PRRS is not a new disease, it continues to affect pig farmers and is the No. 1 cause of economic impact in the U.S. swine industry. Still, industry experts say the disease has made us better. 

The driver told U.S. Customs and Border Protection that he had rolls of frozen turkey ham in his pickup truck, however, the agents determined it was actually 154 pounds of Mexican bologna, which is made of pork.