While deadly for baby piglets, the containment of the PED virus is quite doable if done right. In the United States, the American Association of Swine Veterinarians expects the winter of 2015 to be a benchmark period in terms of understanding what the future will look like from a PED standpoint.
The incidence of Porcine
Dr. Denise Beaulieu, a research scientist with the Prairie Swine Centre says the palatability of rations is a key factor in maximizing feed intake when transitioning young piglets from mother’s milk to solid feed.
Because the gastrointestinal tract of the piglet at weaning is so small, it is important to balance the rations carefully to
With more and more disease outbreaks and more demands from so-called consumer groups, organizations across the country keep moving to more regulations and plans to ensure safety and appease those who call for it.
Heather Carriere, the manager of B.C. Pork’s PED Response Project says all of the province’s pork producers have now endorsed a
There are things that simply don’t make sense but when one segment of a larger system misuses and abuses the rules, often for the greater good, the powers that be penalize the whole system.
Case in point with the vacant meat processing jobs, climbing hog numbers cutting into profits and maybe putting some hog producers
United States inventory of all hogs and pigs on September 1, 2015 was 68.4 million head, up four per cent from September 1, 2014, and up two per cent from June 1, 2015. This is the highest inventory of all hogs and pigs since quarterly United States estimates began in 1988.
Breeding inventory, at 5.99
There is an election campaign happening in Canada and various farm organizations and some of their spokespeople are telling the political parties running candidates, their leaders, and anyone else who cares, ‘take heed – farming is important, too’.
Tom Teichroeb, a cattle rancher at Langruth, MB says Conservatives, NDP, and Liberals where is the agricultural
While the weaker Canadian dollar gives farmers less purchasing power, the stronger U.S. dollar puts more money into the farmer’s’ pockets when he sells his commodities, whether grain, special crops or livestock into the U.S. market and / or based off the Chicago markets.
Steve Meyer, the vice president for pork analysis with EMI Analytics
Veterinarian Dr. Leigh Rosengren – Rosengren Epidemiology Consulting from Saskatchewan says Canadian livestock producers are incredibly responsible when it comes to the use of antibiotics in animals raised for food.
By the end of 2016 U.S. pork Producers will be required to discontinue the use for growth promotion of antibiotics used in human medicine and
When the PED virus broke out in the United States in May of 2013, it gave the Canadian pig industry eight months to get ready for the inevitable – testing positive for the first case in Canada.
This dreaded bombshell dropped right during the Boar Pit Session, the conclusion to another successful Banff Pork Seminar
While some may think it is going overboard to appease a certain faction of the consumer groups, others think it’s the thing to do to make sure farmers always give the utmost of care to their animals, while showing others the proof is in the pudding.
Dickson Gould, the chair of the Canadian Pork Council’s
