Whether you're a small-scale or large-scale producer, on-farm biosecurity is critical to preventing foreign animal diseases like African swine fever (ASF) from developing and spreading. Careful sourcing of animals, products and by-products, including feed and feed ingredients, is important.
People visiting your farm could also be carrying ASF on their contaminated clothing, equipment or in their food if they were recently in an area that was infected with ASF.
Producers should make sure that visitors or workers on their farms follow strict biosecurity measures before coming back onto their premises. Review the national biosecurity standards and assess your biosecurity practices to mitigate the risk of ASF entering your farm.
Refer to our frequently asked questions about ASF to inform yourself about this animal disease.
Awareness toolkit
Everyone has a role to play in reducing the risk of animal diseases. Do your part by sharing this toolkit with your network. You'll find helpful videos, fact sheets, posters and images to help spread the word, not the animal disease.
Infographic: Spot the signs of African swine fever (ASF)
No matter the size of your farm or how many pigs you have, African swine fever (ASF) could affect you.
Infographic: On-farm biosecurity
ASF can have a devastating effect on a swine herd. On-farm biosecurity is key to prevent diseases from developing and spreading.
Awareness tools from third parties
- World Organisation for Animal Health awareness tools
- Video: African swine fever – How to stay one step ahead
- Disease images of African swine fever
- What's hitching a ride in your feed? – (PDF)
- Commercial pig farmers: Don't be the carrier of a deadly pig disease – (PDF)
- CanSpotASF
Resources for producers
National
- National Swine Farm-Level Biosecurity Standard
- National Biosecurity Guide for the Livestock and Poultry Feed Sector
- Canadian Pork Council
- Animal Nutrition Association of Canada
- Canadian African Swine Fever Compartment Program
Nova Scotia
Quebec
Ontario
- Ontario Animal Health Network's Swine Producer Report – Q3 2018
- Ontario Animal Health Network and Swine Health Ontario's African Swine Fever Update – (PDF)
Manitoba
- Manitoba Pork's Foreign Animal Disease Preparedness
- Producer Handbook – Preparing the Manitoba Pork Sector for Disease-Related Sector-Wide Emergencies – (PDF)
Saskatchewan
Alberta
- Alberta Pork's keeping ASF out of Canada update
- Preparing the Alberta Pork Sector for Disease-Related Sector-Wide Emergencies – Producer Handbook