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HOME MILLING OPPORTUNITY
For sale fully fitted-out home milling plant. Suitable for pigs, cattle or poultry.
Inventory includes:
• 4-tonne raw grain surge bin, delivers to mill
• 4-tonne per hour roller mill, hasn’t had much use
(includes motor and starter box)
• 3 x 2-tonne crushed grain bins – joined
• 1-tonne weigh bin on scales with load cells and
digital readout
• 1-tonne mixer
• 4-tonne protein bin
• 1 double-sided 6-tonne bin for mixed feed
• 1 double-sided 4-tonne bin for mixed feed
• 1 x 20-tonne protein bin
All associated connecting augers and motors.
Other miscellaneous equipment used in home milling.
All equipment still in place in mill room.
PHONE 0427 623 253
Chinese Ag Ministry says ASF won’t become epidemic
CHINA has confirmed 74 outbreaks of African swine fever in 20 provin- cial areas, but the deadly pig virus, which is not harmful to people, won’t break out into regional epidemics according to the Ministry of Agricul- ture and Rural Affairs of the People’s Republic of China.
The latest case was confirmed on a pig farm in Huangshi city, Hubei province on November 26.
Five of the 63 pigs died, according to the reports from the Ministry of Ag- riculture and Rural Af- fairs on China Daily.
About 600,000 live pigs have been culled (Novem- ber 22 statistics) since the
first outbreak in Shen- yang, Liaoning province, on August 1.
Head of the ministry’s animal husbandry and veterinary department Feng Zhongwu said quar- antines have been lifted in 24 areas in seven prov- inces, including all af- fected areas in Henan and Jiangsu provinces.
“The outbreaks feature a dispersive pattern, but we have contained the spread through resolute preven- tion and disease control measures,” he said, add- ing that the chance of a sudden surge of regional infections is very slim.
The ministry has banned the feeding of pigs with kitchen waste since the
end of August, and has ramped up its supervision over the transport of live pigs.
China Animal Health and Epidemiology Center deputy director Huang Baoxu said research re- leased recently shows 46 percent of outbreaks have been caused by people or vehicles carrying and spreading the disease.
It has been confirmed that 23 cases occurred as a result of feeding kitchen leftovers to pigs, and the cross-regional transport of live pigs has led to 13 cases.
The causes of five other cases are being investi- gated.
He added that the emer- gence of the African swine fever virus in China is likely linked with a vi- rus strain present in Geor- gia, Russia and Poland, as genome sequence analysis suggests a 99.95 percent similarity.
Investigations into the origin are ongoing.
Sixty countries around the globe have been hit by African swine fever since the disease was first de- tected in Kenya in 1921, and 13 have wiped out infections over periods of five to 36 years, according to the ministry.
About 688 million pigs
were slaughtered for food in China last year, accord- ing to the National Bureau of Statistics.
Feng said China’s fre- quent exchanges with countries hit by the dis- ease and large amounts of trade from abroad have increased its risk of con- tagion.
Meanwhile, there are 26 million small farming households or enterprises in China.
Their lack of preventa- tive measures and low awareness of the disease have aided its spread.
“We will ramp up our disease control and pre- vention measures, such as enforcing the cataloguing of vehicles carrying live pigs, strengthening in- spections of international deliveries and travellers and cracking down on smugglers,” Feng said.
Feng also assured the public that supplies of live pigs and pig products won’t be impacted by the culling and limited trans- port of live pigs.
“I want to emphasise that African swine fever won’t threaten human lives or affect food secu- rity,” he said.
“Consumers can rest as- sured of eating quality pig meat.”
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A wild boar that died of ASF in the Czech Republic. Photo: Petr Satran
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