Maple Leaf Foods (Brandon) announced recently they have started a reduced processing schedule by cutting one day per month, for the next five months. “This temporary “brown-out” is because of a lack of market hogs. This situation will not improve until producers build more barns to produce market hogs,” says Karl Kynoch, Chair of
Manitoba Pork reports information gathered through a 2012, producer survey is playing a key role in developing the infrastructure needed to accommodate swine traceability.
This survey launched by Manitoba Pork in 2012, collected information for use when representing producers to government, to update producer contact information and to gather information for the provincial agriculture department
The higher prices for pork and live hogs, and the lower feed prices keep the pot boiling, but makes for the best incentive to get people in the industry out to an annual meeting, this year’s AGM of Manitoba Pork Council was no exception.
Great speakers, another PED virus alert, and great turnout saw the
Slat Gap Cover Has Many Uses
Because of welfare considerations many EU countries have introduced legislation which increases the area of solid flooring in pens. This has given producers with fully slatted floors something of a headache, as relaying flooring is a very expensive exercise.Danish legislation relating to piggery flooring is very detailed . Fully
The Manitoba hog industry continues to hold its fingers crossed and keeping the bio-security tight as news came from the Office of Manitoba’s Chief Veterinary Officer (CVO) confirming the province’s second on-farm case of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) virus in a finisher barn in southeast Manitoba.
Interestingly, the CVO says the animals on this farm
Stoneleigh, Coventry is the venue for the biennial UK Pig and Poultry fair. The site in the past used to host England’s Royal Show and it’s very sad that England does not have a premier farming event, unlike Wales or Scotland. We do have the very successful and popular three day Great Yorkshire Show
People I meet, and some are more special than others.I’m one who isn’t afraid to tell people to their face, or comment about them in public, if they mean something to me in my life. My wife Judith, my in laws, my parents, my children and grandson, and my extended families are very important
What’s a fair without a competition and what’s a competition without a winner? Often the culture of removing competition from events like this actually takes away that feeling of accomplishment for those who enter these events, but not so at the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair in Brandon in April.
Manitoba Pork Council, the title sponsor
Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea has not made its way into British Columbia and the BC hog industry wants to keep it that way.
The industry has received $600,000 from the provincial and federal governments through Growing Forward II to implement bio-security programs to prevent PED and other infectious diseases from coming onto BC hog farms and
When Dr. John Carr, an international livestock consultant and veterinarian, who lives in England, read the Canadian draft Pig Code of Ethics during comment period in June 2013, he said Canada could well be at a significant disadvantage if the hog industry falls under the regulations of the draft Pig Code.
Dr. Carr said a
