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  • Biogas Code of Practice Consultation Workshops

    APL has developed a risk based Code of Practice for On-farm Biogas Production and Use (Piggeries) in response to growing interest in Biogas technology from Australian pig producers.  APL, through a previous project identified that there was a lot of …

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  • 2015-2020 Strategic Plan Consultation

    The APL 2015–2020 Strategic Plan consultation process continues with all meetings across the country now completed. To all of those producers who attended meetings, APL thanks you for your contributions so far. APL would like to offer all producers that have …

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  • Corrective Statement

    Australian Pork Limited (APL) issued Media Releases on 11 April and 19 December 2012 concerning the progress of the Australian pork industry’s initiative to move away from the use of sow stalls by 2017. APL made statements in those Releases …

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  • Notice of AGM and Annual Conference

    The APL Annual Conference and Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held at the Marriott Hotel, cnr Exhibition and Lonsdale Streets, Melbourne on Thursday 21 November 2012. The Annual Conference will commence at 9.00am and the AGM will commence at 1.00pm. For …

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Complete Research Reports

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A Risk Assessment and Simulation Modelling Framework for Exotic Disease Prioritisation in the Australian Pig Industry: Part 2

30 Pages
1 Feb 0012
Author(s): Michael Ward, Brendan Cowled, Edwina Leslie, Katherine Negus

Australian Pork Limited commissioned this project to develop methods for assessing the status of, and methods to contain, an exotic disease outbreak in the feral pig population as well as proof-of-freedom after containment. Our simulation modelling revealed that targeted, spatially explicit surveillance around an index case was the most efficient sampling strategy. Depending on the length of time an epidemic had been progressing, the densities of herds and the prevalence of disease, as few as two herds or as many as 230 herds were required to be surveyed before an epidemic was detected.

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