A Swine Health Information Center-funded project is facilitating the expansion of farm-level outbreak forecasting to new regions. The SHIC plans to expand a project that uses machine learning to calculate when a sow farm will break with Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea. Researchers at the University of Minnesota built machine learning algorithms that consider factors such as recent
Tyler Fulton the director of risk management with h@ms Marketing Services said markets show 2021 will be a much more profitable year for pork producers than 2020 with COVID 19 a dominant factor influencing live hog prices. Fulton said 2020 showed event disruptions in the supply chain, having negative consequences and June, July and August
Bill Alford, the general manager of h@ms Marketing Services in Winnipeg, MB said in a year-end interview the hog industry finished 2020 on an unseasonably high note regarding hog prices. But 2020 wasn’t a typical year. And to finish the year, averages in hog prices came back and were even higher than 2018 levels. “So
Hosts and participants hope that Banff Pork Seminar’s first virtual conference will also be its last. Normally held in Banff early in January, the 50th-annual conference was offered online, free of charge, on the mornings of January 5th and 7th. The online format was chosen early in the planning stages, when it became apparent that
Happy 2021, I think all of us were ready to turn the page on 2020 and look forward to a new year. Reaching 2021 is very exciting for me as it marks the 25th year of publishing Prairie Hog Country. Not sure when Susan, original owner of PHC, called me back in 1996 to
Dr. John Carr, a world livestock consultant, veterinarian, and lecturer, living in Brisbane, Australia, said with African Swine Fever and COVID-19 restrictions, Canada continues to feed the world with pork.“My attitude is I still breed the sows this week because I don’t know what’s going to happen in a year,” said Dr. Carr. “If
Ingredients5 lb / 2.5 kg fully cooked, bone-in ham2 ½ cups / 625 mL hard cider or apple juice1 cup / 250 mL lightly packed brown sugar, divided1 tsp / 5 mL EACH ground cinnamon and ground cloves2 Tbsp / 30 mL lemon juice2 tsp prepared yellow mustard2 Tbsp / 30 mL cornstarch (mixed
AFSC Names Darryl Kay as New Chief Executive OfficerAgriculture Financial Services Corporation (AFSC) announced recently that its Board of Directors has selected Darryl Kay as the new Chief Executive Officer, effective October 1, 2020. Kay currently holds the role of AFSC’s Chief Financial and Innovation Officer.Kay has been with AFSC for close to 10
PigSAFE is the new name for the CQA program, the Canadian Pork Excellence platform’s food safety component.The same Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) model used in the CQA program also retains biosecurity elements developed by the Canadian Swine Health Board in 2011.Producer-led committees developed the program reviewed by expert validators and tested
The manager of swine health programs with Manitoba Pork, Jenelle Hamblin, credits a dramatic reduction in the number of cases of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea to enhanced biosecurity.Since 2014, when PED raised its ugly head and was first identified in Manitoba, annual numbers of cases varied, peaking at 82 last year before falling to three
