Weekly Overview: PED, Hogs & Pigs and the Importance of Biosecurity
GLOBAL - Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea (PED) presents a whole new range of challenges to the US pig sector when it comes to forecasts for pork production and prices; this was clear from the quarterly 'Hogs & Pigs' report, published last week and the commentary upon it. Canada has reported its first PED outbreak for some weeks. Vets and farmers in the UK explored biosecurity as a vital way to keep PED and African swine fever off the country's farms at a workshop last week.
29 September 2014
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