Imagine being able to weigh your pigs daily and not having to enter the barn. That technology is now available and is being tested in a barn in Iowa.
The system is called ProGrow. It was developed in Denmark by a company named SKOV and is being distributed and installed in North America by Mackay
Looking at the calendar it’s possible to spend the year travelling around the world purely attending seminars, shows and trade fairs. Attendees get as much from networking as getting updated on new products – either way new knowledge helps improve business efficiency and profitability.
Again studying the calendar there are far more trade fairs now
The BC commercial hog industry is nearly extinct but there are still a lot of pork producers in the province.
Although only 16 producers are registered with the BC Hog Marketing Commission, Canadian Pork Council executive director John Ross told the combined BCHMC and BC Pork Producers Association annual meeting the CPC believes there are
Ingredients
2 lb(1 kg) Canadian Pork Shoulder Blade Roast, boneless
2 tbsp (25 ml) EACH butter and canola oil salt and freshly ground pepper
2 carrots, diced
2 stalks celery, diced
1 zucchini, diced
2 large Vidalia onions, sliced
1/2 cup (125 ml) EACH white wine and chicken broth
2 tbsp (25 ml) chopped fresh thyme
1 tbsp (15 ml) honey
2 tbsp (25
As a 8 year old youngster my father used to joke with me and say “What, not another letter,” as I was in the habit of writing to various companies for information on new products, hence I started writing at quite a young age. Vocabulary is very important when trying to make articles read
New Executive Appointed
Alberta Farm Animal Care (AFAC) has appointed a new Executive Director, effective late last year. Annemarie Pedersen is our new Executive Director. Annemarie Pedersen has worked in agricultural communications for over a decade, including past work as Industry Relations Director with Canada Beef as well as running her own communications consulting business
Cramer Ag Expo
The 8th annual Cramer Ag Expo will be held in Swift Current at Kinetic Park on Thursday February 22nd, 2018 from 8:30 am – 5 pm. Stop by the sold out trade show featuring 106 booths representing 70 companies.
The highlight of the day is Cramer Cup series including a hog carcass competition.
Regular readers will remember the author’s article in spring 2016 about top Beverley, East Yorkshire producer Ian Broumpton. Given that Ian has been doing what Yorkshire folk are renowned at NOT doing, namely spending money, or “brass” in Old English, it seemed timely to go and see what Ian has been up to over
In 2017, HyLife of La Broquerie, MB announced plans to build a substantial new feed mill in Killarney, MB. Company President Claude Vielfaure said it will be identical to their original feed mill west of Steinbach, MB and will accommodate their growth plans.
In the fall of 2016, HyLife announced a $125 million investment and
The decision to build or retrofit a pig barn certainly involves many factors, but should in the end be fairly straightforward, according to Murray Elliott, a retired farm building consultant with FGC Construction based in Sebringville, Ontario.
The right choice is mostly based, he says, on taking a good, hard look at the deficiencies of
