Here are some observations and comments put together to further highlight what PigTrace Canada is and isn’t.
The United States does not have an electronic movement reporting system like the Canadian pork industry, nor are they in the process of implementing such a system and Canada is way ahead.
The U.S. is thinking about traceability, developing
As processing plants like Maple Leaf Foods in Brandon, MB go begging for hogs to keep the plant going at full capacity, the hog industry is fighting an uphill battle in trying to increase production.
In Manitoba, impossible because of the NDP government’s ban on hog barn expansion laying Lake Winnipeg cleanup squarely on the
The hog prices, feed prices, supply and demand, and of course the dreaded PED virus keeps the game interesting and not for the faint at heart. In Manitoba, there is one other caveat, that of the moratorium, meaning ban on any hog expansion, and in the rest of the world, finances, and high construction
When farmers used stoneboats, horses, and pitchforks to spread their manure on the fields during the winter on snow-covered and frozen fields, much of it would drift anywhere but down to the soil where the plants could use it the next spring.
Once people recognized the fact manure had some real nutrient value, governments and
Hog prices keep hog farmers looking over their collective shoulders somewhat with record highs a few short weeks ago, and now slipping a little lower.
Rolf Penner of Morris, a hog and grain farmer says the corn prices touching on $3 dollars a bushel make for a healthy profit on his pigs, especially the last
Operators of an assembly yard attached to the Olymel processing plant in Red Deer are jumping in front of a set of videos revealing incidents of animal abuse inside the facility.
“If we have systems and we have procedures that are broken, we will fix them,” Western Hog Exchange Chairman Brent Moen said about video
His dream was always to farm, so in October of 2011 Jeroen Van Boeckel, a grain and hog farmer – at Stephenfield got his chance at the age of 28 coming to Canada and buying his first 700 sow farrow to finish farm. In Europe, he served customers for a genetics company.
“I was the
Maybe the industry needs to ask some serious questions about the work of the Canadian Swine Health Intelligence Network; why isn’t the industry coming forward and for what reasons to support it financially.
CSHIN manager Dr. Chris Byra is encouraging stakeholders within Canada’s pork industry to support resumption of Canada’s national swine health surveillance system.
“We’ve
Swine producers across Canada will learn over the next few months whether the measures taken so far are strong enough to contain and perhaps eliminate porcine epidemic virus.
Since the first Canadian site was confirmed positive late in January, as of press time, the virus has hit 63 farms in Southwestern Ontario, four in Manitoba
The Manitoba government continues to thwart hog expansion in Manitoba with its stringent and none-bending environmental regulations blaming a good part on farming say farmers.
In attempting to change the minds of local MLA’s to put pressure on the government, Manitoba Pork is asking the business community to get involved in the hog moratorium debate.
Gerald
