Animal Health & Veterinary

Feed Strategy Podcast

Gut instincts: Enhancing poultry health through the microbiome [PODCAST]

Anitox's Dr. Alastair Thomas discusses how optimizing the poultry microbiome produces better growth performance and reduces feed costs.

African Swine Fever

ASF vaccine research picks up in Asia

Ongoing disruption of the Vietnam pork market from African swine fever (ASF) is driving one vaccine manufacturer there to carry out the first vaccination trials on breeding pigs, and the Philippines has also set up an animal vaccine research facility.

Animal Health & Veterinary

Senators urge USDA to include turkeys, dairy cattle in avian flu strategy

Members of the Senate Agriculture Committee are pressing U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to broaden the USDA's strategy for managing avian influenza to include measures for turkeys and dairy herds.

Business & Markets

Bill that takes aim at Proposition 12 introduced in US Senate

The Food Security and Farm Protection Act, co-sponsored by Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley (Iowa), Joni Ernst (Iowa) and Roger Marshall (Kansas), would prohibit any state or local government from interfering with commerce and agricultural practices in another state outside their jurisdiction.

Avian Influenza

India implements 3-pronged bird flu management strategy

HPAI has recently re-emerged in the country.

Animal Nutrition Views

Impact of disease outbreaks on global feed trade

When a major livestock disease strikes, governments react quickly by imposing export bans on live animals and animal products, as well as on feed ingredients derived from these sources.

Avian Influenza

HPAI testing improvements suspended after HHS staffing cuts

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is suspending efforts to improve testing for highly pathogenic avian influenza due to staffing cuts throughout the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a Reuters report.

Avian Influenza

House members: Kennedy suggestion for HPAI ‘reckless’

After U.S. Health and Human Services secretary suggests HPAI should be allowed to “run through the flock,” a group of House Democrats launched an investigation.

Livestock & Poultry Diseases

Jump to third country raises FMD concerns in Europe

After a decades-long hiatus, unexpected outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Hungary and Slovakia recently have raised fears of further spread in Europe.

African Swine Fever

Study suggests ASF virus can survive processing at soybean facilities

However, the researchers believe their work points to a strategy that could mitigate the spread of the virus.

Newsfeed

Report identifies places where ASF incursion ‘probable’ or ‘unlikely’

A new study has identified 10 places in Latin America and the Caribbean where the risk of African swine fever (ASF) incursion via informal imports is “probable.”

Animal Health & Veterinary

Bill aims to ease shortage of rural veterinary services

The Rural Veterinary Workforce Act would allow veterinarians practicing in underserved areas to exempt student loan repayments from their taxable income.

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