ASF vaccine development is a tough order

Jennifer Shike Although the race to develop an African swine fever (ASF) vaccine in China ...

Don’t DIY these six financial steps

Lee Hancox, Head: Channel and Segment Marketing at Sanlam.
 With tightened belts, and cost-cutting being ...

READ explains its ASF procedures and plans

The Department of Rural, Environment and Agricultural Development (READ) of the North West province issued ...

Latest on foot and mouth disease

Click here to read the Department of Agriculture, Foretry and Fisheries’ last update on foot ...

SAPPO AGM: Shift towards an intelligent future

The acquisition of new insights through data will be in the spotlight at SAPPO’s AGM ...

Strengthening the SAPPO team

Leago Theko (left) and Nokuthula Mokwena joined the SAPPO team in March 2019 as interns ...

Chinese authorities crack down on black market pork

A spate of prosecutions against black market pork processors and vendors has been unleashed in ...

Leading US farm, conservation, and wildlife groups unite to protect conservation funding

Having succeeded in protecting funding for the Conservation Title in the 2018 Farm Bill, the ...

Amid trade disputes, smaller markets step up demand for U.S. pork

Growing exports to Canada (16,165 mt, +13%) indicate the U.S. is backfilling Canada’s product needs ...

Shoppers confused by welfare terms

Shoppers are confused by the proliferation of animal welfare terms used on product labels, with ...

Antibiotic-free production puts pigs at extreme disease risk

Jennifer Shike A new study confirms antibiotic-free production strategies leave pigs at considerable risk of ...

Formulating piglet diets without adding antibiotics

As it becomes increasingly uncommon to mix antibiotics or zinc oxide through diets for just-weaned ...