Dan Murphy is a veteran food-industry journalist and commentator who writes independently in various farm publications.
Recently, in an article in Pork Network, an online hog industry website, Murphy writes about the futility and absolute waste of time and money country of origin labelling really is.
Murphy asks when consumers in the United States pick up
Hashtags, farm meetings and items in file 13
As I sit in the Banff Centre hotel contemplating what to write for this column, several things come to mind.
While still attending a few key farm meetings and conventions, it is certainly not possible for me to attend the shear numbers I did when back as a young
Nanotechnology – it’s a word most people became familiar with while watching science fiction movies, but it’s become a modern reality. But what exactly is it? And how can it help push the pork industry forward into a new future? That’s precisely what the Prairie Swine Centre wanted to discover with a recent research
After seven lean years as a hog producer and making some changes going forward it is good to see some big profits returning to the pig business, says past chair of the Canadian Pork Council and an Alberta mixed farmer.
Jurgen Preugschas, farming since 1970, says following seven lean years in the pig business, he
Rick Bergmann of Steinbach, MB who is the new chair for the Canadian Pork Council says key highlights of 2014 are substantial improvements in profitability, significant developments on the trade front, major advances in biosecurity and animal health.
Some coin 2014 as maybe the best year Manitoba hog producers have ever had, but that is
The Banff Pork seminar 2015, like the previous 43 years is a place to flush out the facts and the emotions in one way or the other.
Biosecurity is at the top of the list for everyone inside the industry and those on the outside looking in, who sometimes make contact with those on the
There was a time where the hog carcass competition during hog and poultry days alternating between Brandon and Winnipeg, wasn’t nearly as important to the industry and the winners as in later years.
In 2014, changing it from Hog and Poultry Days to the Prairie Livestock Expo, and a brand new venue saw thousands of
Pigs sleeping happily, piled one and a half deep, is one of the most certain signs that all is well in the barn, says one of three experts called to address production troubleshooting at the 2015 Banff Pork Seminar.
Minnesota-based production consultant Michael Brumm joined Ontario producer Ryan Martin and Ontario veterinarian Marsha Van
Having to euthanize newborn pigs was probably the toughest task of all for barn staff dealing with the consequences of porcine epidemic diarrhea, says an Ontario producer.
Tom Graydon runs Catfish Creek Pork Ltd., a multi-site operation located near Brownsville, about midway between Detroit, Michigan and Buffalo, New York.
Graydon outlined for delegates at
Plenary sessions at the Banff Pork Seminar provide opportunities to hear people with wide-ranging expertise square off on the major factors influencing swine production.
Canada’s position as a net exporter requires its producers and processors to be mindful of a vast array of influences at play within a wide and ever changing variety of markets.
