The continuing tension between Russia and Ukraine is concerning since it appears a tinderbox needing only a spark to escalate into a war which could too easily escalate into a conflict which includes NATO, and potentially a larger battle zone.
The situation is also yet another example of how politics can dramatically influence agriculture markets.
Recently,
The Big Hit tourney sends more kids to camp around the world
Every so often you really get to do something that you love doing, and the time spent goes to a good cause, and those who benefit get a shot at a life-changing experience.
Recently, I had the privilege of umpiring six slow pitch games
Doug Chorney, president of Keystone Agricultural Producers says activists setting Manitoba government’s agenda threaten Maple Leaf plant in Brandon.
Morgan Curran-Blaney, the manager of Maple Leaf Brandon says, for the company’s Brandon, MB pork processing plant to reach full double shift capacity it will need to access another 20 thousand hogs per week.
That plant can
Hog prices are relatively high, and feed grain prices relatively low, but there is a caveat with those relatively low feed grain prices, quality.
With the rains, frost, and length the crops are staying in the field, Brian Voth of St. Agathe, MB v-p, and senior marketing coach for Agri-Trend says during that last week
While three cases of PEDv virus does not an epidemic make, the third PEDv case on a sow farm in southeastern Manitoba, is cause for grave concern says Karl Kynoch, chair of Manitoba Pork.
The week of September 22, the Office of the Chief Veterinarian in Manitoba posted a notification to the MAFRD website stating
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
