Consumers keep demanding more and more from hog producers in Canada. While often quite disturbing at the outset, many times it leads to the betterment of the industries, and sometimes it may also cause undue stress, hardships, and ultimately higher producer costs.
There was a time producers used antibiotics, almost at will, but higher costs
I’m writing this article as over 600 delegates mingle at the annual Banff Pork Seminar. Interestingly a similar event takes place every two years in Herning, Denmark when producers, advisers, technicians and allied industry folk gather to get updated on topical issues related to Danish pig production. The event is organized by SEGES, the
Despite the recently introduced additional 11-step program to apply for a permit to build a new hog barn in Manitoba in certain area, it will still take renewed confidence from the financial institutions and other investors to make it happen.
Ron Kostyshyn, Manitoba’s agriculture minister says a pilot project introduced last April offers the opportunity
Canada’s weak dollar is creating new optimism for swine producers and pork processors, who hope it stays in the basement for a very long time.
The Canadian buck was hovering at about 70 cents at the end of January, with no indications of any real rally for two years or longer, creating an enormous advantage
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest is the third novel in the best-selling Millennium series and the last by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson.
It might also be the title for the relationship of Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and Albertan farmers.
Notley caused waves of opposition and a series of protests where farmers showed their anger
Back home and Canada’s Ag minister visits Washington I received a tweet from a friend after tweeting getting back home safe after two weeks on the road and putting on 5,000 km, where he asked if that is my vacation for the year. I told him, I need a holiday now, but no time
In another article in this publication, it shows there’s increased demand from producers in the United States for weanlings, just to fill existing sow barns.
Here George Matheson chair of Manitoba Pork says the repeal of U.S. Country of Origin Labelling will have a negligible impact on hog markets in the United States.
A delegation representing
From rising production costs to animal care, there are constant challenges the pork industry has to overcome. This includes mitigating the presence of Porcine Respiratory and Reproductive Syndrome (PRRS), which can have devastating effects on production costs and animal health.
Over the last decade, there has been a strong push to eliminate PRRS in North
Cramer Livestock Expo
Be sure to come out for the Cramer Crop and Livestock Expo. It is back for its sixth consecutive year, this years theme “Back To Our Roots,” will be held Thursday February 18th in Swift Current, SK at Kinetic Park. Trade show floor is open from 8:30 – 4:30 followed by Cramer
Late in 2015, the Manitoba government introduced a new special pilot project permit evaluation protocol designed to allow the construction of swine barns in the province to resume under 11 new conditions.
In 2006 the Manitoba government banned building and expanding hog barns in 35 RMs; then in 2011, expanded that ban to the entire
