Industry Groups Meet to Explore PRRS Eradication
Producer and veterinary members of a pork industry task force conferred at the Leman Swine Conference last week in St. Paul, MN, to explore setting a course for possible eradication of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS)...
Veterinary Clinic Challenge: Eat Pork Each Night for a Week
To show support for a struggling U.S. pork industry, which has weathered two years of economic hardship and put some producers out of business, a northern Iowa swine veterinary consulting clinic has kicked off “Pork Week.”...
Leman Science Award Winner Announced
Laura Batista, DVM, of Quebec, Canada, has been named the recipient of the 2009 Allen D. Leman Science in Practice Award from the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine and Pfizer Animal Health...
Ohioans Host Rallies for Livestock Care Campaign
The Ohioans for Livestock Care/Yes for Issue 2 campaign will host 12 rallies throughout the state of Ohio from Sept. 26 to mid-October for State Issue 2, a proposal on the Nov. 3 state ballot to create the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board....
Action Plan Developed For H1N1 Influenza
State and federal animal health officials and pork producers have collaborated to produce an on-farm plan to keep the pork industry operating as normal in the event a U.S. pig herd is suspected or confirmed as being infected with the novel H1N1 Flu Outbreak Virus....
Russia Sets Plan to Cut Pork, Poultry Imports
A Russian senior food executive has told Reuters that Russia will rely on imports for no more than 10% of its pork and poultry within three to four years as growing domestic output replaces the United States and other suppliers...
NPPC Stresses Message That U.S. Pork Is Safe
The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) told foreign officials last night that the U.S. pork industry and the U.S. government are gearing up for a return of the novel H1N1 flu, and that both groups would continue to relay the message that the flu virus is not transmitted through food (pork) and that pork is safe to eat...
Records Projected for Corn Use, Soybean Exports
Importing countries are certainly taking a liking to current U.S. soybean prices, a fact reflected in USDA’s Sept. 11 World Supply and Demand Estimate forecasting record U.S. exports this marketing year...
Pork, Beef Export Sales Remain Sluggish in July
Lingering effects of the H1N1 influenza virus continue to produce sales of U.S. pork and beef products that lag behind last year’s pace for the first six months of the year, according to the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF)...
Nobel Laureate Norman E. Borlaug dies
Norman E. Borlaug, who received the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for developing high-yielding and disease-resistant wheat used to prevent famine in developing countries throughout the world, has died. He was 95...
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