Judi Graff, the producer of farmNwife.com says farmers who wish to use social media now have a much wider range of options to choose from, many of them free.
Speaking at the Manitoba Swine Seminar in Winnipeg, MB in February Graff produces and authors a website, FarmNwife.com, she started in 2007, to help farmers tell
One of the side benefits, and maybe a detriment too, depending on how the industry and individuals including hog producers and industry employees handle it, has to do with the heightened biosecurity.
For those who take biosecurity seriously all the time, they can use the crisis as a teaching and learning period, making sure the
Mark Greenwood, the senior vice president of AgStar Financial Services of Mankato, MN says, when using risk management strategies in hog production, producers need to consider all of the risk factors.
Mark Greenwood, speaking at the 2014 Manitoba Swine Seminar in February likens risk management in swine production to a three legged stool.
“You have your
It is no secret the hog barn infrastructure in Manitoba is aging, and aging fast and with the ban on new hog expansion still fully in place, it makes people in the industry wonder how and when, and maybe even if this will happen.
At the recent Manitoba Swine Seminar 2014 in Winnipeg, MB, Andrew
The see-saw battle involving biosecurity, technology and human effort, in some case well beyond what people once considered beyond the call of duty keeps paying off for hog farmers whose premises don’t have the PED virus, at least not yet. That can change in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, but for
Dr. Chris Byra, the manager of the Canadian Swine Health Intelligence Network says strict adherence to biosecurity protocols gives Canada an edge in dealing with Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea.
In Canada, the PED virus remains centered in Ontario, they are disinfecting one infected barn in Quebec, the virus is under control in Manitoba, and one infected
Another new pig virus has been detected at six Ontario hog farms – DeltaCoronavirus (SDCV).
The Animal Health Laboratory says the symptoms are similar to Transmissible Gastroenteritis (TGE) and Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED) virus, but it’s less deadly.
It prompts pigs of all ages to vomit and to develop diarrhea and has the highest mortality rate
There’s so much activity and discussion re PED virus and the new Pig Code that it’s easy to forget the long term effects of the M-COOL in the United States. There are those who believe that packers in Canada actually prefer if the restrictive legislation now ensconced in the U.S. Farm Bill stays as
This one has been a long time coming, and it looks like a win win for everyone, at least so far. While it still needs ratification, Canada negotiated a free trade agreement with South Korea, and that is a big market.
Over time, the FTA with South Korea will virtually eliminate tariffs on Canadian pork
Steve Meyer, of Des Moines, Iowa, president at Paragon Economics, Inc. doesn’t call what is happening in the United States to packing plants because of decreased supplies of pigs because of PED virus, shutting down, but idling at capacity.
“They’re trying to idle a bit of capacity to match the supply of pigs that are
