…U.S. pork,” Herring added. “The world’s largest pork-consuming nation is currently experiencing a dramatic reduction in domestic supply because of an animal disease that has ravaged its national swine herd….
USDA Releases Baseline Data on Antimicrobial Use by Beef and Swine Operations
…injection in 2016. The majority of swine sites (95.5 percent) gave market pigs antimicrobials in feed, water, or by injection in 2016. The main reasons for antimicrobial use on swine…
Safe Trade Allowed to Continue in the Event African Swine Fever
…Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) have agreed to allow safe trade to continue in the event African swine fever (ASF) is reported…
USDA Enhances African Swine Fever Surveillance Efforts
…“African Swine Fever is an area of high interest among the veterinary community and our swine industry, and we continue to take action to prepare for this deadly disease,” said…
NPPC Cancels 2019 World Pork Expo as Precaution
…in very challenging financial conditions.” Herring added, “The widespread presence of African swine fever in China’s swine herd, the world’s largest by far, takes the threat of this swine disease…
USDA Provides Information for Producers and Veterinarians to Help Guard Against ASF
…impact the U.S. pig population. African swine fever (ASF) is a highly contagious foreign animal disease that affects both domestic and feral (wild) pigs. It does not affect human health and…
USDA Continues to Prevent African Swine Fever from Entering the U.S.
…is available at www.aphis.usda.gov/animalhealth/swine/asf. Additionally, USDA is releasing four infographics on the following topics: African Swine Fever Risk Pathways (PDF, 2.4 MB) Biosecurity (PDF, 312 KB) Signs and Symptoms of…
USDA Strengthens Partnerships and Protections to Keep ASF Out of the Country
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced additional steps to keep African swine fever (ASF) from entering the United States, even as the disease spreads internationally. These steps strengthen…
Sec. Perdue Comments on the Development of a Vaccine Bank
…development of a vaccine bank is drastically less than the cost of addressing an outbreak of disease. “These transmissible diseases have kind of began with foot and mouth. African swine…
Study Reveals Pigs Can Transmit FMD Prior to Signs of Sickness
…fever and blisters. Foot-and-mouth disease continues to be the most important foreign disease of livestock worldwide, said Jonathan Arzt, lead investigator and veterinary medical officer with USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS). Although…
Keeping the Carbon Footprint of Livestock in Perspective
…animal agriculture will always talk about cows and beef cattle and sheep and swine and so on, but they would never raise issues of companion animals such as horses,” said…
Perdue Applauds USDA’s 2018 Accomplishments
…successfully eliminated feral swine from Maryland and New Jersey, and three additional States (Iowa, Maine, and Oregon) saw significant reductions in feral swine populations. Additionally, in FY18, APHIS declared two…
Virulent Newcastle Disease in Commercial Poultry in California
…Avian, Swine & Aquatic Animal Health Center. Officials responding to the discovery are looking to first limit the spread of the disease to other poultry operations and then eradicate it…
ASTA Applauds International Statement in Support of Plant Breeding Innovation
…Canada, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Jordan, Paraguay, the United States, Uruguay, Vietnam and the Secretariat of the Economic Community of West African States. “We applaud the U.S. government…