News - Canadian Swine Health Board

The Canadian Swine Health Board is expressing relief with the outcome of Monday’s federal election which returned the Conservative government to power with a majority.

The Saskatchewan Pork Development Board hopes a new certification program will provide western Canadian pork producers a reasonable level of confidence that the pigs they buy are free of PRRS.

The chair of the Canadian Swine Health Board says early detection and quick response are key to limiting the losses that would be caused by an outbreak of foot and mouth disease.

The Canadian Swine Health Board has issued a Swine Health Awareness Bulletin aimed at familiarizing pork producers with the symptoms of foot and mouth disease.

The Canadian Swine Health Board hopes to be ready to introduce an all peril mortality insurance product for pork producers by this coming January.

The author of the Canadian Swine Health Board’s Biosecurity Users Guide says the new package will provide one stop shopping to help Canadian swine producers improve biosecurity on their farms.

The Canadian Swine Health Board suggests initiatives aimed controlling Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome will have a much higher chance of success if approached cooperatively on a regional basis.

The Canadian Swine Health Board says the pork industry can learn a lot from an incident last week in which operations at a Canadian pork processing plant were temporarily suspended over fears of foot and mouth disease.

The Canadian Swine Health Board has targeted the eradication of PRRS as one of its initial research priorities.

The Canadian Swine Health Board says information being gathered through a national biosecurity benchmarking study will assist in determining where improvements can be made to strengthen biosecurity on Canadian swine operations.