The United States Department of Agriculture is forecasting pork production for 2019 at 27.662 billion pounds — 360 million pounds higher than the forecast presented a month ago. The June inventory survey pointed to larger inventories of hogs available for marketing this summer and the pig crop for the Mar-May period was 3.7 percent
This might hurt – and some will feel it more than others. There is no question that the pricing model on which commercial hogs are sold is broken. But the benefits available from an aggressive reset now underway in Alberta will outweigh any pain the industry may feel, says the man leading the
International livestock veterinarian consultant and lecturer Dr. John Carr said recently, “at the moment, I have two major issues on the planet. We’ve got to fix Manitoba’s PED outbreak. I don’t know; we seem to almost to get there and then not quite enough. This is quite frustrating.”
In speaking candidly from the Manila
Just when you thought the trade waters could not get any muddier between Canada and China, they do.
Trade works best when supply and demand is the driving force.
Trade does not work very well when outside forces are applied to the process, in particular when governments use the process of trade as a club in
Recent interest in environmental enrichment stems from the National Farm Animal Care Council’s 2014 update to the Canadian Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Pigs which states that all pigs must have “multiple forms of enrichment that aim to improve the welfare of the animals through the enhancement of their physical
The Swine Health Information Center is working on multiple fronts stakeholders on African Swine Fever preparedness, prevention, and response as part of its mission to protect and enhance the health of the U.S. swineherd.
Swine Health Information Center Executive Director Dr. Paul Sundberg first outlined the situation with ASF.
“The virus continues to spread
The Federal, Provincial, and Territorial (FPT) Ministers of Agriculture concluded their two-day annual meeting in Quebec City on July 19.
During the meeting, Alberta’s Agriculture and Forestry Minister Devin Dreeshen strongly recommended the federal government take urgent action to provide support to the agriculture industry in the short and long term.
The industry is currently experiencing
Porcine epidemic diarrhea has once again surfaced in Manitoba. According to the Manitoba Pork Council 60 cases of PED (24 finisher barns, eleven nursery barns, 24 sow units, one quarantine) up until July 26. Of those facilities with infected pigs, 48 are in southeast Manitoba, nine west of the Red River in the Lowe
Here we are in the fourth of six editions in 2019, the time seems to fly by faster and faster every year. Thinking of how fast time goes the release dates for 2020 can be found on page 41. Also on page 41 is the call for advertisers for the 2020 Prairie Hog Country
The Lacombe Research and Development Centre is part of a research project with Swine Innovation Porc (SIP) to generate research, commercial testing, and cost estimates of different technologies for online pork classification based on the proposed Canada Pork International quality rating’s system.
The new tools are to improve and standardize the classification of Canadian
