These practices focus on controlling people, animals, equipment, and vehicles that come in contact with livestock. Simple ...

As dairy and poultry farmers work to limit losses related to avian flu, they are learning the virus can be transmitted in a wide variety of ways. Vectors can include, for example, wild waterfowl water ...

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack at the North American Agricultural Journalists conference in Washington in April 2024 (Photo: Philip Brasher) The more we learn about H5N1, the more we understand that good ...

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 ...

The department is urging all producers in the region to review their on-farm biosecurity practices in response to the ...

An all-Island bluetongue restriction zone is put in place as a precaution, the government says.

Biosecurity at the farm level is a management tool to help prevent the movement of disease-causing agents onto and off of farm operation. Biosecurity therefore involves many aspects of farm management ...

Experts say they are not sure how the highly-pathogenic avian influenza is passed among dairy cattle yet, but birds and cattle mingle a lot more than you would think. Perhaps it’s that wild birds, ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WTVY) - Biosecurity guidelines have been issued for livestock shows, the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries (ADAI) announced Monday. The measures are “in response to ...

Health challenges with PRRS and PED persist, along with emerging diseases at our doorstep such as New World screwworm.