PMWS - Canada - Cash Aid

British farmers got nothing because the SVS decided not to apply to the EU
to make PMWS a notifiable disease. They hid the 1999 East Angian epidemic
up instead and stuffed the pigs full of antibiotics to get them into the
food chain.

Are you surprised that they won't test British pigs for MRSA?

They would rather let the children and old people die than own-up.

http://www.thepigsite.com/swinenews/16968/quebec-producers-to-get-pmws-aid-in-february

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Quebec Producers to get PMWS Aid in February
QUEBEC - The $17.5 million aid package for Quebec's PMWS-hit pig farmers
will start next month. The province announced plans for direct aid and
interest-free loans yesterday and will be welcome relief to the
cash-strapped industry.


The aid package was announced on December. It will be in two parts. The
first will be direct aid for PMWS-affected hog feeding operations, to be
delivered automatically to farmers signed up under the federal and
provincial ag income stabilization programs, CAIS (called PCSRA in Quebec)
and ASRA, for the program year 2006.

The support will cover up to two-thirds of the value of the pigs affected by
post-weaning multi-systemic wasting syndrome (PMWS). La Financiere agricole,
the provincial ag lending agency, will oversee the program and already
prepared to roll out the support. The compensation is expected to be paid
out in February.

Loans
The second part of the program takes is a 24-month interest-free period on
loans of up to $50,000 for pig producers whose herds were hit by PMWS in
2006. A 12-month interest-free period will be offered to hog farmers who
took part in the provincial aid program for PMWS in 2005.

Producers looking for more details on the loan program can find it at local
Financiere agricole office, says the provincial government.

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