Former Ag minister Gerry Ritz, and now the Conservative party’s new international trade critic says agriculture is still a major focus for him and other Conservative members of parliament because it remains and will continue to be a major focus and economic driver for Canada and especially for Western Canada.
“In my case oil and
The CME Group’s daily livestock letter sights hog slaughter numbers in the third week of September as truly ‘shocking’ and the fear is that hog supplies on the ground are larger than what packers are able to process during a regular work week.
“The last time packers exceeded ‘normal’ processing capacity was in the fall
The PED virus strikes twice within one week in Manitoba, other provinces stand up and take notice tightening their own biosecurity protocols making sure it doesn’t strike in their backyards and rightfully so. The disease outbreak while only in ten barns so far in Manitoba causes stress and devastation to those hit, and stress
While little left to say when another hog farm breaks with a fresh case of PED virus, here is the latest from Manitoba Pork when PED virus outbreak number ten hit a Manitoba hog farm.
On September 21, 2016, a new case of PED was confirmed at a finisher farm in southeast Manitoba. This farm
Despite strict vigilance and tightening up of biosecurity protocol the dreaded PED virus is ever present and ready to strike it appears as it did again in Manitoba.
Manitoba Pork says on September 15, Manitoba’s Chief Veterinary Office (CVO) confirmed positive test results for porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) from a southeastern Manitoba sow barn, bringing
Genesus Expands Team
Genesus is pleased to announce the appointment of Art Goelema as Sales Manager Western Region. Art joins Genesus from Peak Genetics where he was Sales Manger from 2007 to present. Art is a graduate of Almelo University, Netherlands. In 1988 Art moved to Canada where he has managed several sow farms, including
APC AGM
The Alberta Pork Congress Annual General Meeting has been rescheduled. It will now take place as a breakfast meeting Wednesday October 19th in Red Deer at the Sherton prior to the start of Red Deer Swine Technology Workshop. The breakfast meeting will commence at 7:30 am and go till 8:15 am, so still plenty
APC AGM & GT
The Alberta Pork Congress Annual General Meeting will once again be held Wednesday September 14th in conjunction with the Annual Golf Tournament at the Trochu Golf and Country Club.
At the AGM elections will take place for new members for the Board of Directors. Once the meeting has concluded this will be
Over the years, problems with manure disposal meant that many Danish producers focussed on just producing 30kg weaners and cut back on finishing. At the same time the 2013 partial dry sow stall ban was looming, which meant new buildings / conversions were required and so many producers decided to increase sow numbers, to
Never a dull moment in raising food
On the heels of the first case of PEDv in this go-around, May 27 on a sow farm in southeast Manitoba, the second one I heard about on a hog farm not far away from these two PEDv cases.
On June 2, 2016, Manitoba’s Office of the Chief Veterinarian
