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Healthy Farms Biosecurity Community

The Healthy Farms Biosecurity Group is a community is open to all stakeholders who engage with youth or agricultural producers, as they consider and implement effective biosecurity plans and practices. The project is supported by the USDA NIFA-funded Animal Disease Biosecurity Coordinated Agricultural Project (ADBCAP).

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Re: July 14 Cross-Pollinating Biosecurity Community Conversation

Gregory Martin ·
I appreciated seeing both plant and animal systems represented in this discussion.
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Re: Biosecurity and Zoonotic Disease Prevention: Keeping Guests and Animals Healthy and Safe

Ahimara C ·
I enjoyed the webinar. The information presented was very interesting, especially during these times when biosecurity is very important. Something that I found very interesting is that swines are considered to be by many people the ones guilty of transmitting diseases, but in reality humans are the ones that are bringing and transmitting more diseases, swines just had the bad luck to be intermediates. Another thing to point out, is the amount of salmonella that can be found in just a pathway...
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