The biggest threat to Canada’s pork industry is one that has not yet arrived.
African swine fever has hammered 74 countries since 2005, while four countries reported their first cases in 2022 alone. If the disease arrives in Canada, the pork sector would shut down overnight as the industry exports 70 per cent of what it produces.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Canadian livestock producers have experienced the nightmare of disease entering a highly exported animal population before.was discovered in an Alberta cow. The U.S. immediately shut down the border to Canadian beef and cattle and a large chunk of the international market quickly followed in their footsteps. The 49th parallel was welded shut for more than two years, costing producers billions of dollars, decimating the national herd and forcing many producers out of the industry altogether.
“It’s one of the top priorities, in my mind,” she said. “The first part is really to prevent and to prepare. And then we keep working collaboratively with the provinces and the industry.” More than $23 million is earmarked for prevention and mitigation efforts within the industry by improving biosecurity assessments, wild pig management, retrofitting abattoirs, sector analysis and related research projects.
The challenge is developing a strategy to differentiate vaccinated from infected animals to show that the exported pork or pig is positive because of the inoculation and not infection.
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