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The Western Canada PRRS-Free Herd Certification Pilot Project, a Canadian Swine Health Board initiative administered by Sask Pork, provides a protocol under which pig or semen suppliers can certify their stock is free of PRRS. Sask Pork Producer Services Manager Harvey Wagner says initially 92 farms from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Quebec enrolled and 83 have continued to provide test results.
According to Harvey Wagner, Saskatchewan Pork Development Board:
It seemed to be fairly successful.
We're quite pleased with the way it's gone.
We've had a number of farms enroll.
We've been able to prove that the process can be done.
There certainly is interest in the project for a number of reasons.
One of them is it's a vehicle to monitor the status of health I guess you could say of farms in areas where they're trying to eliminate PRRS so like the area regional control programs.
It could be a vehicle to monitor individual farms in those areas.
It also could be used to enhance meat sales.
It's a differentiation concept.
Saturday August 4, 2012/ University News/ Canada.
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