At the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, many people practiced social distancing and increased sanitation to keep the sickness from spreading to others. Some of those same human biosecurity practices can ...
Summer is a good time to review how to prevent disease from coming onto your farm, says University of Missouri Extension dairy specialist Chloe Collins. Live animals, vehicles, equipment, animal ...
Crop pests can cause significant economic losses through reductions in crop or forage yield, impacts on harvestability, impacts on quality, and the cost of pest management. To reduce the likelihood of ...
Beef producers have a new template to secure sound biosecurity practices on their operations. The Beef Quality Assurance program on Monday rolled out a Daily Biosecurity Plan for Disease Prevention, ...
North Dakota State University Extension experts are urging poultry and dairy owners to review and strengthen their biosecurity plans.
More and more people are practicing farming because they enjoy the outdoors, animals and the fruits of their labor as opposed to farming as a primary source of income. Even though “hobby farming” can ...
With the avian influenza spreading throughout the region, now is the time for biosecurity to ramp up on poultry operations and for consumers to continue to support the poultry industry, an expert says ...
The Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI), an attached agency of the Department of Agriculture (DA), is optimistic that the Philippines’ proposed alternative biosecurity measures for banana shipments would ...
EMMETSBURG, Iowa — "....Iowa has been added to the list of states in which the dreaded foot-and-mouth disease has appeared. The Department of Agriculture has been advised that the disease has broken ...