Daryl Possberg
Opportunities exist for producers willing to take a calculated risk, says an independent producer based in Saskatchewan. Daryl Possberg is general manager of Polar Pork Farm System, a 12,000-sow isowean facility that rose from the ashes of its predecessor, Big Sky Farms. While the outlook is bleak in terms of production costs, particularly with high
Dr Egan Brockhoff
Nutrition, technology and management are little more than window dressing on a farm that does not have high standards of health within its herds, say various delegates attending the 2023 Banff Pork Seminar. Prairie Hog Country spent some time behind the scenes at BPS 2023, held during the second week in January, chatting with
Michael Dyck, program co chair
Fresh Air Farmer, Andrew Campbell
Lineups for morning coffee, people perched in windowsills, a cacophony of enthusiastic chatter: These are the signs of new energy within a community of people who have been through the mill together, in isolation. The return to a full-contact Banff Pork Seminar opened on Tuesday, January 10
Happy 2023, welcome to the first edition of the year. I am super excited as we enter into the 27th year of bringing the latest hog news and information direct to you, the producers and fellow industry members. Thanks so very much for your continued support, encouragement, readership and financial support from advertising which enables
Ingredients1 pork loin roast, centre cut, boneless, about 3 lb / 1.5 kg5 cups / 1.25 L unseasoned dry bread cubes1-3.5 oz / 100 g pkg chopped walnuts¾ cup / 175 mL dried cranberries3 Tbsp / 45 mL unsalted butter1 cup / 250 mL EACH chopped celery and chopped yellow onion¼ cup / 50
Dr Jennifer Brown, Photo Courtesy of Debra Marshall
Awards of Distinction
Sask Pork honoured two local swine experts with Saskatchewan Pork Industry Awards of Distinction at the 45th annual Saskatchewan Pork Industry Symposium recently.Researcher Dr. Jennifer Brown with Prairie Swine Centre (PSC) and veterinarian Dr. Josh Lindenbach received top honours from the hog industry at the
Prairie Livestock ExpoThe Victoria Inn and Convention Centre will be host for the Prairie Livestock Expo Wednesday December 14th, 9am – 6pm.Join us for the one day show, which features the Pork Quality Competition.Since 1996, hog producers and sponsors of the Prairie Livestock Expo’s Pork Quality Competition (formally Hog & Poultry Days) have donated
Registrations for the 2023 Banff Pork Seminar are on track for more than 700 people, a return to pre-pandemic numbers, says the seminar coordinator. In an email to Prairie Hog Country, Ashley Steeple announced from her desk at the University of Alberta that the first in-person seminar since the COVID-19 outbreak of 2020 is well subscribed
Mr. Hunt was my Biology teacher in Grade 12. One day while our heads were down note taking about the adrenal gland, guess what he did? He slammed a textbook onto his desk. Everyone jumped. A few girls screamed. We all had adrenaline shooting through our bloodstreams in a flight or fight response.God created
To have a great year in farming – at least as a grain producer – you need two things. To start, Mother Nature has to cooperate with timely rains, warm temperatures without it getting so hot as to hurt the crop, and a fall where the weather allows the crop to be put in the
