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U.S. and Canadian Pork Industries Collaborate with Feed Industry, Ag Groups to Fight PEDV

2014-03-24 16:30:00| National Hog Farmer

Source: National Pork Board More than 60 people representing U.S. and Canadian pork, feed and other allied industries recently participated in a meeting focusing on the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) issue, hosted by the National Pork Board, and in collaboration with the National Pork Producers Council, the American Association of Swine Veterinarians, the American Feed Industry Association, the National Grain and Feed Association, the National Renderers Association and the North American Spray Dried Blood and Plasma Producers, in Des Moines, IA. Although the disease does not affect humans or pork safety, it has infected and killed millions of young pigs on farms of all sizes in 27 states since May 2013 and in four Canadian provinces since January. read more

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