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Canada’s mink farms brace for COVID

Producers have had time to increase biosecurity efforts at the farm level

Canada’s 40 mink farms are operating under heightened biosecurity requirements after reports of COVID-19 jumping from humans to mink in Europe. Alan Herscovici, an industry spokesperson who operates the website […] Read more




Producers are adept at keeping pigs safe but now have to adopt new measures to do the same for barn employees during the pandemic.

Managing new human biosecurity in an animal biosecure world

Hog farmers are familiar with biosecurity but human to human contact presents different challenges

Biosecurity measures introduced into Ontario’s hog barns over the past decade leave the sector well-placed to respond to livestock disease outbreaks, but haven’t necessarily created an adequate defense for the […] Read more