A year ago in the April/May 2020 edition of Prairie Hog Country I typed a note about usually not at a loss for words, but not sure what to say. Well fast-forward to April/May 2021 and I am still not really sure what to say. Yes, we are getting used multiple zoom meetings & live
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
Welcome to the last edition in 2020, and what a year it has been. We all hope and pray that 2021 will bring a more usual routine, without starting every morning with hearing new case numbers and how many new hospitalizations plus even worse, how many new deaths.All those in the agricultural field are a
As I am penning this the unique times continue, some families are settling back into fall routines with school starting and the combines are going at solid pace trying to get this year’s crop off and in the bin. While fall is here, it still looks quite different, when passing people in the grocery, equipment
Yesterday, from when I am penning this, the Alberta Government announced that students will return to schools in the class room this fall. I received Tim’s cartoon only a few short hours later. We both must have been on same wave length and didn’t realize it.A huge thanks to Paul and Manuel of HEART
As I am penning this I can hear the hum off bees on a tree outside my office window. A sure sign that spring has sprung, plus all the seeding being done in the fields. So it should feel like the world is normal … well as we all know with the continuing COVID 19
Anybody who knows me well, knows I am not usually at a loss for words. Well, as I am trying to type my message this morning just before a print deadline, I find myself feeling that exact thing – a loss for words. Not sure what to say or in this case type. Ninety
Wow – welcome to 2020 – still not exactly sure where 2019 went, it came and went in a blur. Time wise it seemed, however, last year was a scary one indeed with the constant threat of African Swine Fever, which continues today and will throughout 2020. That hot topic remains top of producers
Welcome to the last edition in 2019. This issue is jam packed with coverage from Red Deer Swine Technology Workshop, Saskatchewan Pork Industry Symposium, h@ams fall meetings, Alberta Pork AGM, Manitoba Pork Fall Meeting. Plus of course the good news that China has reopened its border to Canadian Pork and Beef, as a Country
As I am typing this it is a beautiful 22º outside, go combines go.
With a chance of flurries at the end of the week the old expression make hay when the sun shines seems fitting.
It has been a year since African Swine Fever, ASF, became a hot topic of discussion. A year later as
