An important segment of the Banff Pork Seminar is the effort to encourage young scientists and to reward production crews who develop unique solutions to common problems.
Every year, two nominees are selected for the F.X. Aherne Award for Innovative Pork Production, which recognizes systems and tools developed on the farm. The award is named
Few details had been released by the end of January about Alberta’s first case of PED. On Monday, January 7, provincial officials released a statement confirming that the disease had been found on a 400-sow farm somewhere in Central Alberta.
In an interesting coincidence, the news that provincial officials had confirmed the discovery started reaching
One sick pig is all it will take to destroy Canada’s swine industry at a cost that will reach billions of dollars, says a Central Alberta veterinarian.
Egan Brockhoff, who has been at the forefront of the battle against porcine epidemic diarrhea, was asked to give a presentation to the 2019 Banff Pork Seminar about
There’s only one answer when your employer offers you a chance to see how your industry looks from the other side of the globe. So, when Australian nutritionist Haylee Clifford learned that her employer had a bit of funding available for a research project, she did some digging and decided she would like to
Here we are at the start of another year, and I am very proud to share that 2019 marks the 23rd year of publishing for Prairie Hog Country, your dedicated Western Canadian connection to the hog sector.
As all of you know our industry has been in the news and in what I refer to
Honey-Mustard Tenderloin
Ingredients
12 oz (375 g) Canadian Pork Tenderloin
1/4 cup (50 ml) honey
2 tbsp (25 ml) cider vinegar
2 tbsp (25 ml) brown sugar
1 tbsp (15 ml) prepared yellow mustard
Directions
Preheat oven to 400°F (200°C). In a small bowl, mix honey, vinegar, sugar and mustard. Coat pork tenderloin with sauce. Place pork tenderloin in a shallow pan,
TOPIGS Hands out Top Awards
At a recent awards banquet in Winnipeg, TOPIGS presented awards in various categories. This year again, Topigs Norsvin customers achieved outstanding results. In 2017 there were 9 herds across Canada achieving over 30 pigs weaned / mated female / year.
In 2018 there were 20 herds over 30 PSY with an
While biosecurity heightens in the livestock sectors as more diseases raise their ugly heads Jenelle Hamblin, the Manager of Swine Health Programs with Manitoba Pork said the effort to rid the province of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea continues to make progress.
Hamblin told pork producers at the Manitoba Pork’s fall producer meetings in Niverville and Portage
This major multi-species French livestock salon is held each September in Rennes, in the heart of Brittany. It is notable for two key reasons. Firstly it’s one of the few large shows that is still held annually. Exhibitors might prefer a biennial event but attendances still are good (although visitor numbers at 108,347 were
Churchill, Manitoba is a railway town once again
In 2017, spring flooding severely damaged the Hudson Bay Rail Line, Churchill’s only land link to the rest of Canada. Since then, people and freight could only access Churchill via air and sea. Prices on everything from fuel to groceries skyrocketed. Tourism declined. It stranded local families,
