🇺🇲🧑⚖️ Does 3 ever follow 12? Do we need to go back to school to relearn how to count? Not if we're talking about California’s Proposition 12, which opened the way for Massachusetts's Question 3. The latter, which imposes housing requirements much like Prop 12's on the port industry, was put on hold pending the Supreme Court’s ruling. However… The decision favoring the Californian law means Question 3 comes off the shelf now!
📃⚠️ Known as the Act to Prevent Cruelty in Farm Animals, Question 3 s...
🐷 Biosecurity has become a buzzword today – justifiably so! Protecting animal health is imperative, now more than ever, and it all starts with what you eat – well, not you, the pigs. That's because feed and feed ingredients can harbor and transmit pathogens to animals, so we can't forget to implement a feed hygiene program that encompasses sourcing, storage, mixing, and delivery.
- Initial intervention strategies focus on holding times and temperature as well as the use of feed additives. It...
🧫🔬 Sounding like a self-help kinda thing? Maybe, but continuous effort is in fact the answer here. If their initial diagnostic tests have been inconclusive, swine practitioners are being encouraged to keep on trying and use the Swine Health Information Center’s (SHIC) Diagnostic Fee Support program.
- The program was created to ensure emerging diseases are identified before they get out of control by supporting further diagnostics in cases where initial assessments have been done, but weren't ...
🇺🇲🇪🇺 That's harder to come by than even the rarest of the veterinary medicines! During the lastest EU-US Trade and Technology Council, an agreement has been reached to expand the scope of the Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) Sectoral Annex for Pharmaceutical Good Manufacturing Practices. It'll now include inspections of veterinary pharmaceuticals.
- Nice, right – what does that mean again…? It means that veterinary products manufactured in the EU can now be exported to and marketed in the US...
🇺🇲🇰🇪 With its growing middle class and a fairly strong tourism-driven demand from its hotel, restaurant, and institutional food service sectors, Kenya is the latest candidate for a significant export market for US pork products. Perfect, right? Or it would be, if it weren't for the country's current tariff and non-tariff barriers that limit US pork imports...
🚪 We're already on it, though! The word is that the US Trade Representative (USTR) has made some proposals during the first round of the ...
🇺🇲🇯🇵 An upcoming agricultural trade mission to Japan will count on representatives of the US agriculture sector with the aim of expanding our bilateral trade relationship even further.
🤝 Currently our fourth-largest market and one of the world's leading economies, Japan is an important partner for us. That's why the trade mission participants are going to engage directly with potential buyers by providing them with in-depth market briefings – straight from the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Servi...
🇺🇲🇲🇽 According to Mexico's agriculture minister, the conflicts with the US over the ban of genetically modified (GM) corn are no longer a worry. That's because the country published a new decree banning GM corn for human consumption only, but allowing it for livestock feed (which makes up most of our exports, anyway).
- The US and Mexico have been at odds on the issue since the latter published a decree that appeared to ban all GM corn imports, which make up a multibillion-dollar trade between...