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
Dr. Denise Beaulieu, a research scientist in nutrition with the Prairie Swine Centre says lower feed costs and higher live hog prices are allowing pork producers to refocus on maximizing the productivity of their herds.
Beaulieu told producers at a recent Prairie Swine Centre producer meeting the big change in the past few months is
When Dr. Peter Provis of Elanco Animal Health, talks about the PED virus, his audience listens. As was the case at a producer meeting in Portage la Prairie recently hosted by the Prairie Swine Centre of Saskatoon. Provis took his time, answered any questions, used many great examples and analogies and after speaking continued
An overall climate of optimism is a more than a little unfamiliar for Canadian pork producers, when things have been so bad for so long. But there’s hope that promises made years ago will finally start to bear fruit, say the chairman and the executive director of Alberta Pork. Strengthening the value chain, continued
The new Pig Code, the one that lays out how farmers must treat their pigs is getting good reviews. Florian Possberg, the chair of the National Farm Animal Care Council’s Pig Code Development Committee is confident Canada’s new Pig Code of Practice will help boost the international marketing position for Canadian pork.
There was much
Canada’s Ag minister Gerry Ritz met in Mexico, with two of his counterparts, Mexican agriculture secretary Enrique Martínez, and U.S. agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack, gathering together for the first time.
The meeting marked the North American Free Trade Agreement, (NAFTA) 20th anniversary where the three discussed the vast benefits the Agreement has created for the
Things are changing, and changing rapidly for the hog industry in Canada because the perfect storm is blowing in the right direction, higher pig prices, lower feed costs, and even the exchange rate is right for Canadian producers.
The three things pushing back at hog producers horrendous restrictions created to stifle hog production, M-COOL keeping
