After a small country like Belgium stalled the signing of the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), Canada and the European Union signed it on October 30. While the Liberal government will take credit for this historic agreement, the Harper government and then Ag Minister Gerry Ritz did much of the leg work.
Vaishnavi Iyer Aka Aiyer,1,2,
Dan Columbus 2 and Denise Beaulieu 1
1 University of Saskatchewan, 2 Prairie Swine Centre,
Deoxynivalenol (DON), commonly known as vomitoxin, is a mycotoxin produced by the fungi, Fusarium graminearum, which infects all grains, especially wheat and barley. Grains infected with fusarium are typically downgraded to be used as livestock feed. Pigs are
Animal health and how the products farmers use them is becoming more and more important in raising hogs because the costs of those products keep rising and the right for consumers to know what farmers are using is increasing.
Dr. Henry Gauvreau, a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with Warman Veterinary Services says antibiotic benchmarking offers
Challenges and hope go hand in hand
Farmers continue to face their challenges head on. With Thanksgiving behind us in Canada and still to come in the United States, not so good commodity prices, and parts of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta where Mother Nature dumped many inches of rain and then up to three feet
While early research suggests space allowance requirements could be reduced for nursery pigs not everyone thinks it is a good idea to jump to conclusions before the actual results are in.
Dr. Yolande Seddon, an Assistant Professor of Swine Behaviour and Welfare in the Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences with the University of Saskatchewan’s
Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program has long been a sore spot for farmers in part because of rules imposed because a different industry misused the system. Now it appears the Liberal government is making a move in the right direction that may make a difference.
George Matheson, chair of Manitoba Pork says it appears adjustments
A simple tool that producers can download free of charge can help them find the ideal shipping weight for every batch of pigs they sell.
The only question is why people are not catching on, says Herman Simons, farm management specialist with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry’s farm information centre in Stettler.
At the Red Deer Swine
Canadian producers must band together and push for a made-in-Canada pricing system for their hogs, says the chairman of Alberta Pork.
In his address to the membership during the group’s Annual General Meeting on Nov. 9, Frank Novak described the pitfalls if producers continue to ship on a cash-based pricing system that has made it
With great focus, some of it by overzealous do-gooders, the livestock sectors are making sure the health of animals, and the food they sell to the public is healthy and perceived so in all counts.
That is one reason the Canadian Pork Council (CPC) is calling on government to ensure swine health and disease prevention
When demand outstrips supply in most cases it is a good problem to have, if there is a way to increase that supply. In the case of a pork processor in Manitoba selling chilled pork to willing consumers in Japan and China, the company is taking things in its own hands, but will need
