The beef industry is determining how surveillance for foot-and-mouth disease will work in community pastures that are shared by cattle from several producers.

Veterinarian shortage complicates FMD plans

Producers worry about how country’s shortage of veterinarians will affect surveillance against foot-and-mouth disease

Glacier FarmMedia – The shortage of veterinarians is a problem Canadian beef industry and government officials must tackle as they develop a contingency plan in case of a foot-and-mouth outbreak, […] Read more

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Three-in-one swine vaccine hard to make

The manufacturers of a trivalent vaccine aimed at the hog sector faced a number of challenges

Glacier FarmMedia – Multiple studies examining the ability of Merck Animal Health’s Circumvent CML vaccine to control porcine circovirus, mycoplasma hyopneumoniae and lawsonia intracellularis in hogs were required to prove […] Read more