Surely the biggest news of late, at least in the Prairies, is the idea of climate change and carbon tax.
Premier Brad Wall has never exactly gotten around to admitting that the climate is changing.
It really should only take a quick perusal of the funds funnelled through Saskatchewan’s Provincial Disaster Assistance Program in recent years
Happy 2017 welcome to Prairie Hog Country’s 21st year, although it is January, when I am typing this, it sure doesn’t feel like it plus 7 is the forecast today. That was not the case when 658 of the industry joined together in Banff for the 46th Banff Pork Seminar. That week the temperatures
Looking forward
It’ just one of those things, you know what I mean, another year goes by, and a new one begins. Well, we are so blessed here in southern Manitoba, [where we live] and sometimes I think people take that for granted. I know I do.
On Christmas Day, I asked my brother Jack two
It is always interesting to read about the issues of agriculture beyond Canada’s border.
The influences on the sector in places such as Europe and California may seem a long way from a farm at Springside or Val Marie in Saskatchewan, but often trends started in such far away locales have a tendency to flow
Speaking at the Prairie Livestock Expo 2016 in December in Winnipeg, Dr. Tracy Gilson the Operations Manager of the University of Manitoba’s Glenlea Research Station says discoveries made through research are driving the success of agriculture in feeding growing numbers of people while using fewer inputs.
Dr. Gilson says the primary goal of agricultural research
The debate rages on about carbon taxes and how it will affect farming, whether hogs, cattle, grain and or special crops.
Former Ag minister Gerry Ritz thinks we need to oppose any kind of Carbon tax at all levels of government, if we are to remain competitive with our farming production, and any other exports,
As president Donald J. Trump was telling business leaders from across the United States in the White House he’s going to remove redundant regulations to make doing business easier, the Manitoba government marked the beginning of Red Tape Awareness Week by making a commitment to introduce new legislation that would reduce the burden of
For some time now, the hog industry in Manitoba has worked extremely hard to undo the damage caused by the ban on hog expansion by then premier Gary Doer. While not so noticeable when the hog industry languished in downright depressing times, where all basically tried to hang on and many didn’t. Then things
Farm shows grow and shrink, come and go, and often evolve into better shows that change with the continuing needs of the producers who come to those shows.
Producers, technicians and companies showing their wares came together on Dec. 14, in Winnipeg to make the Prairie Livestock Expo, Canada’s newest multispecies consumer show a success.
Despite ups and downs, sometimes sideway movements, and hog production numbers swelling in the United States there’s optimism in the hog industry.
George Matheson, himself a hog producer in Manitoba and chair of Manitoba Pork says the outlook for 2017 within the province’s pork industry is optimistic.
Moving forward in 2017, Matheson expects the attention to
