George Matheson, a hog farmer near Stonewall, MB and chair of the Manitoba Pork Council, sat down at the recent Prairie Livestock Expo in Winnipeg to talk about his farm, his role as chair of MPC and the pork industry. The PLE brings producers together from a variety of livestock sectors with exhibits from
The trade situation, global demand for pork, and African Swine Fever will influence hog markets in 2019.
Tyler Fulton, the Director of Risk Management with h@ms Marketing Services advised pork producers to take advantage of profitable futures prices by forward contracting a limited portion of their production.
Fulton said despite consistently record high fourth quarter slaughter
Out of 42 superb hog carcasses entered in the Pork Quality Competition at the Prairie Livestock Expo in Winnipeg, MB last month, Barrickman Colony took home both the Grand Champion and Reserve Grand Champion honours. Country Meats & Sausage in Blumenort, MB donated the processing.
The top ten placements were: 1- Barrickman Colony, 2 –
With an outbreak of the PEDv on an Alberta hog farm on January 7, a report in an Australian farm website, BeefCentral.com free online premium news and market intelligence service dedicated to the Australian beef industry about the African Swine Fever paled the Alberta story.
The Banff Pork Seminar spent many of its sessions on
Plainview Hutterite Colony near Elkhorn, Manitoba held the grand opening of its new finisher barn last month, the largest hog finisher barn in Canada. With over 120,000 square feet, the barn made almost entirely of concrete, stainless steel, and plastic has 18 large finisher rooms, plus numerous isolation rooms, sorting rooms, storage rooms, and
If networking is the soul of Banff Pork Seminar, then the breakout sessions are its heart. This is where producers, veterinarians, technicians, truckers, scientists and sales staff get together for an intimate look at the new developments that are of the most interest to them.
Possibly one of the more tantalizing of this year’s offerings
China National Pig Inventory at end of December 2018 was 366.2082 million, down 38.2581 million from December 2017. The sow inventory at the end of December 2018 was 29.7314 million, dropped by 699,900 head compared to November. The sow inventory 2018 decreased 9.64% compared to 2017. Down 4.5 million sows December to December. U.S.D.A.
The Canadian pork sector is encouraging Canadian Border Services to get more detector dogs and to provide more information to travellers about the risks of bringing meat into the country.
African Swine Fever continues to spread in Europe, it’s in Russia, it’s moved into China and is getting closer to other southeast Asian countries. It’s
An important segment of the Banff Pork Seminar is the effort to encourage young scientists and to reward production crews who develop unique solutions to common problems.
Every year, two nominees are selected for the F.X. Aherne Award for Innovative Pork Production, which recognizes systems and tools developed on the farm. The award is named
Few details had been released by the end of January about Alberta’s first case of PED. On Monday, January 7, provincial officials released a statement confirming that the disease had been found on a 400-sow farm somewhere in Central Alberta.
In an interesting coincidence, the news that provincial officials had confirmed the discovery started reaching
