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27-02 | News

ASF Germany: Virus spreads to 3rd district in North Rhine Westphalia

Photo: Jan Vullings

26-02 | News

ASF Spain: MAPA makes painful mistake with infection map

Pigs at a feeding station. While herd sizes are increasing slightly, the total number of pig farms in Austria continues to decline. Photo: Twan Wiermans

24-02 | News

Number of pig farms declining in Austria

Kerstin Reiners, commercial director of PIC Western Europe, says that the company is investing in identifying traits to measure the character and behaviour of animals. Photo: Vincent ter Beek

23-02 | Interview

Interview: “Behaviour is the most complex area in pig breeding”

Corn remains one of the highest‑risk commodities. In Northern America, 88% of corn samples contained FUM, while DON and ZEN were also prevalent. In Asia, corn contamination was even more severe, showing multi‑mycotoxin exposure at extreme levels. Image created with the help of AI (Reve.art)

21-02 | News

Report: Livestock feed never contains just one mycotoxin type

Gestating sows in group housing in a barn in Indiana, US. Photo: Vincent ter Beek

20-02 | News

New attempt to circumvent Prop 12: The controversy continues

A healthy wild boar spotted in a Spanish forest. Photo: Dreamstime

19-02 | News

ASF Spain: High-risk zone expanded as wild boar infections grow to 162

A finisher house on a farm in central Luzon on the Philippines. Photo: Vincent ter Beek

19-02 | News

ASF Philippines: A 92% decline in ASF cases

Australia, ASF and attention in Pig Progress 1

18-02 | News

Australia, ASF and attention in Pig Progress 1

Finisher pigs on a farm in Britanny, France. Photo: Twan Wiermans

17-02 | News

France: Pork consumption up, pig production stagnates

A nasal swab is taken from a pig. Photo: Ronald Hissink

16-02 | News

Research: Swine influenza has not mixed with other flu types in recent years

PAP has been banned in the UK for 38 years due to the BSE epidemic, when scientists found that feeding contaminated meat and bonemeal was one of the keyways of recirculating the disease in livestock. Photo: Peter Roek

16-02 | News

UK puts PAP feed changes on hold, awaiting EU sanitary deal

Fencing, like here at the border of Saxony state with Poland, was an important part to keep ASF under control. Photo: Kees van Dooren & Vincent ter Beek

12-02 | News

ASF Germany: Saxony state free of ASF after 5.5 years

Dead wild boar due to ASF, found in a forest in the Czech Republic. Photo: Czech State Veterinary Authority

10-02 | News

ASF Spain: “No lab match with Spanish strain”; wild boar cases rise to 142