To stay commercially viable producers obviously have to be more efficient and this has great implications in the UK as the future re Brexit is still decidedly unclear. UK indoor output lags behind the rest of Europe which is very worrying. Significantly all our European competitors have research farms – the Danes also use
Europe’s top court has ruled that new crop varieties developed by gene editing fall under the same regulatory regime as genetically-modified organisms (GMOs).
Gene editing involves only the genes already resident in a species; GMO technology involves transferring a gene or genes from one species to another.
“Organisms obtained by mutagenesis are GMOs and are, in
Trade issues and resulting tensions combined with people in Canada and the United States alike who’d like to see trade issues dominate the media airwaves for whatever reasons continue to demand outcomes on profitability for farmers.
There are countries and segments of each industry that like to float non-monetary trade barriers and irritants, to I
Serving farming and farmers a real privilege
We’re into August and summer keeps slipping by but we’ve had some great summer days and early mornings and sunset evenings in southern Manitoba. While the yields aren’t quite what farmers had hopped at the time of this writing the fall harvest hashtag #harvest18 is underway. It seems
HyLife, a Manitoba integrated pork processor headquartered in La Broquerie, with business around the world, earlier this year held an open house to announce the completion of its pork processing facility expansion and upgrade project. The bulk of its investment focuses on the modernization of the integrated pork processing plant in Neepawa, MB.
On July
Prevail is a revolutionary disinfectant and cleaner that is quickly becoming the go-to product in the world of Animal Health in Canada and the United States. The manufacturer, Virox Technologies Inc., is a Canadian company in Oakville, Ontario.
The company bases the revolution product its patented Accelerated Hydrogen Peroxide or AHP technology and makes it
In 2017, on-farm best management practices were audited on a total of 24 farms throughout Canada as part of a national project titled From Innovation to Adoption: On-farm Demonstration of Swine Research. This article is part of an eight-part series reporting on these audits.
Among nutrients, water is required in the greatest amount but quite
Dr. Jennifer Brown, a Research Scientist with the Prairie Swine Centre said electronic sow feeding appears to be the wave of the future for gestating sows in Canada.
As part of a project conducted on behalf of Swine Innovation Porc conversions from stall housing of gestating sows to group housing, there are documents to provide
It is rather obvious what we eat, and where we access our food has changed significantly over the past few decades.
In many ways I suppose my own experience is a textbook example of the change.
Growing up on a Saskatchewan farm through the 1960s and ‘70s the food on the kitchen table came primarily from
In loose housing facilities, New Standard likes to allow for the fact that pigs, in general, are social creatures. They will thrive not only on healthy interaction with each other but also with the personnel within the barn. Barn designs that allow interaction for pigs that desire it and that would enable the people
