Over the years there have been many stories of European farmers pulling up roots and moving to Canada. There have generally been two motivating factors in the decision to make what is a huge change.
The first has been simple economics. There are often limited opportunities for expansion of farms in Europe in terms of
There is a reason people are reluctant to open a can of worms, and that is simply once it is open the wiggly critters tend to escape and can be very hard to get back in the can.
It perhaps is an old adage United States president Donald Trump should perhaps have thought of before
Sometimes we need to say it…
Today as I reflect on sitting by the bedside of my dear wife Judith, who passed into eternity at 12:32 pm May 18, 2018, at the Boundary Trails Health Centre near Winkler, MB a shoutout to all those who work at the Boundary Trails Health Centre and did their
It could have been the hog barn. It might have been the wide-open spaces. Or maybe it was the sight of a 79-year-old man running down a mountain trail after a five-kilometre hike that left a contingent of European livestock producers with some stunning and often overwhelming impressions of how their counterparts live and
Down a long narrow driveway, about 30 miles south of Keauhou in South Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii, we came to Kona Hawk Farm. My folks, who reside on the Big Island for the winter months, met Doug Pittman at the local market. When purchasing some of his items and through conversation
Back in February 2017, Garry Wollmann shared his story with fellow producers and industry representatives at the Manitoba Swine Seminar in Winnipeg, MB.
Wollmann is the barn manager at Clearwater Hutterite Colony near Balmoral, Manitoba where they operate a 700 sow farrow to finish producing up to 17,000 pigs which went under a special contract
Just after The Canada-West Swine Health Intelligence Network reported on Erysipelas, Rotavirus, Greasy Pig, and Influenza as the main diseases identified by swine veterinarians during the first quarter of 2018, Manitoba confirmed a new case of PEDv on May 15, 2018, in a finisher barn in Southeastern Manitoba. Biocontainment on this site is in
Early in 2017, as the swine industry in Manitoba was gearing up for another great year, a PED Virus outbreak hit the industry hard, and it took most of the year get the dreaded disease under control.
The Office of Manitoba’s Chief Veterinary Officer said all but three of the 80 swine herds infected during
Colin Robertson, the Vice President of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, is confident, despite missing another deadline for completion of a revamped North American Free Trade Agreement, a deal is still possible.
An informal deadline passed in May when the U.S. had hoped to have a revamped North American Free Trade Agreement in place to
Nutritional strategies for improving performance, profitability and sustainability took centre stage at a conference that brought some of the livestock industry’s top researchers together on May 2 and 3.
On the morning of the second day, scientists from the University of Alberta, the University of Manitoba and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Sherbrooke, QC shared
