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 ...

A second phase of the program will strengthen national biosecurity through further certification of farms, slaughterhouses and animal transport systems.

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 ...

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 ...

The Secure Pork Supply Plan, or SPS, allows producers to voluntarily create an enhanced biosecurity and continuity plan, tailored to their operation. Dr. Meredith Peterson, director of swine health wi ...

Reports of avian influenza in bird flocks on the east coast and more recently in Indiana are important reminders for small and large poultry producers to remain vigilant on biosecurity practices, said ...

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 ...