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Ont. poultry packer back under hidden-camera spotlight

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff March 30, 2015

Canada’s biggest poultry processor is back under animal welfare activists’ scrutiny with hidden-camera footage alleging more mishandling of birds at one of its packing plants. Maple Lodge Farms, which in September 2013 was convicted under the federal Health of Animals Act over birds’ exposure to cold weather during transport, said Saturday it’s paying “prompt attention” […] Read more

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Last of avian flu quarantines lifted in B.C.

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff March 27, 2015

The quarantine has been lifted at the last of the 13 farms in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley known to have been infected with highly-pathogenic avian flu. The farm, a 53,000-bird table egg layer operation at Langley, B.C., was confirmed Dec. 13 with high-path H5N2 avian flu. At the end of a 21-day waiting period following […] Read more

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SW Ont. pork plant to morph into turkey processor

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff March 27, 2015

The vacant pork slaughterhouse formerly known as Great Lakes Specialty Meats is now expected to restart as a turkey processing plant by year’s end. Meat processor Sofina Foods bought the 78,000-square foot plant and property at Mitchell, Ont., about 60 km west of Kitchener, for $4.77 million last September, after Great Lakes entered receivership in June. […] Read more

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

U.S. developing bird flu vaccine, no distribution plans yet

By Tom Polansek March 23, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. government is developing a vaccine to protect poultry from new strains of avian flu that have recently killed birds from Arkansas to Washington state. Within two months, scientists at a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) research lab in Georgia will test the vaccine on chickens to see how well […] Read more

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All but one avian flu quarantine lifted in B.C.

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff March 19, 2015

A table egg layer operation near Langley is now the only farm still under quarantine for avian flu in British Columbia. All 13 properties in B.C.’s Fraser Valley that had been quarantined for highly-pathogenic H5N2 or H5N1 avian flu since the beginning of December have since been culled of birds, cleaned and disinfected. A subsequent […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

U.S. reports low-path H7N3 bird flu in California

By Reuters March 19, 2015

Paris | Reuters –– The United States has reported a mild form of bird flu on a turkey farm in California, the World Organisztion for Animal Health (OIE) said Wednesday, the latest in a series of outbreaks to hit the U.S. poultry industry in recent months. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a report […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Wayne Farms files for IPO

By Reuters March 17, 2015

Reuters — Wayne Farms, the sixth-largest poultry producer in the U.S., has filed with U.S. regulators in an initial public offering of common stock. Wayne Farms is a subsidiary of Continental Grain, one of the largest privately-held corporations in the U.S. Citigroup, J.P. Morgan and BMO Capital Markets are underwriting the IPO, Wayne told the […] Read more

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U.S. may impose tougher curbs to contain bird flu in Arkansas

By Tom Polansek March 16, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. authorities are considering imposing tougher restrictions in Arkansas to contain a virulent strain of avian flu in the heart of the country’s poultry region in a bid to minimize international trade disruptions and contain the virus. The H5N2 flu discovered in Arkansas last week is the state’s first case of […] Read more

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Canada blocking poultry from Kansas, Arkansas

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff March 15, 2015

Canada has expanded its restrictions on imports of live poultry, uncooked poultry products and eggs to include those from Kansas and Arkansas, as avian flu has now appeared in birds in both states. The Kansas cases of highly-pathogenic (“high-path”) H5N2 avian flu are in a backyard chicken and duck flock in Leavenworth County, on the state’s […] Read more

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U.S. bird experts mystified by Midwest avian flu spread

By Tom Polansek March 13, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — A virulent strain of avian flu that has killed turkeys in the heart of the nation’s poultry region has been found through molecular testing to be nearly identical to viruses isolated in migratory ducks. But some wildlife experts are skeptical of suggestions that wild birds are responsible for spreading the H5N2 […] Read more

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Ont. poultry packer back under hidden-camera spotlight

Last of avian flu quarantines lifted in B.C.

SW Ont. pork plant to morph into turkey processor

U.S. developing bird flu vaccine, no distribution plans yet

All but one avian flu quarantine lifted in B.C.

U.S. reports low-path H7N3 bird flu in California

Wayne Farms files for IPO

U.S. may impose tougher curbs to contain bird flu in Arkansas

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U.S. bird experts mystified by Midwest avian flu spread

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