Mobile Slaughter Trailer
When you are a smaller scale producer and you want to direct market pork finding access to processing is increasingly a challenge.In British Columbia the situation actually lead to the formation of an organization to help producers.The Small-Scale Meat Producers Association represents British Columbia farmers and ranchers who are raising meat outside
H@m’s Marketing Cooperative moved through its spring producer meetings with a strong turnout, clear optimism, and a sense that the hog sector is finally pushing forward with confidence. General Manager Bill Alford meets with producers in all three prairie provinces and sees something he hasn’t seen in years – momentum.“We build off last year,”
Ian Moon
A multi-million investment at the Olymel hog processing plant in Red Deer should make the plant more efficient, said Ian Moon, director of Hog Procurement and Vertical Integration Western Canada.The $7.1 million investment will focus on the slaughter line at the plant, said Moon.Last summer, upgrades were made to the evisceration line replacing
Walter Preugschas and first Lacombe Boar in 1958
Kurt Preugschas (Walter & Jurgens’ dad, Dr. Kurts’ grandfather)
Sometimes choosing a breed of pig just comes down to a bit of local history.When Leah Purdy returned to her family’s central Alberta farm in 2017 she thought she might like to get a few pigs to raise for
Swine Barns at the Lacombe Research Centre.
The proposed closure of Agriculture Canada’s research station in Lacombe will create a huge hole in pork and hog research, said Alberta Pork’s head of Quality Assurance.The central Alberta research station has long focused part of its research on livestock, meat, meat quality and improvements that benefit farmers
So a long held belief by many is that government is employee fat.Given in the last number of years private business has often opted to improve the bottom line by trimming staff positions saving those wages and off loading responsibilities to others, or to better system and technology the general assumption is that it
Continuing strong hog prices encouraged producers during a series of recent Alberta Pork meetings across Alberta, said Alberta Pork’s chairman.“The main topic is the state of the industry’s current pricing and how good it is and we hope that it will stay the same through the futures pricing,” said Alastair Bratton.“The reason I believe
Manitoba pork producers sent a clear signal about the future of their industry on February 12 in Portage la Prairie.At a Special Meeting of registered producers held at Canad Inns, all six districts – Hutter Schwine, North Star Producers, East, West, HyLife, and Canada Packers – voted in favour of increasing Manitoba Pork Council
A single PED outbreak in southern Alberta in February is testament to how following disease protocol can limit the spread of disease, said Alberta Pork’s Quality Assurance and Production manager.“It was caught very early,” said Javier Bahamon, of the confirmed case of porcine epidemic diarrhea. At the end of March, it continued to be
Karina Mikkelsen
Danish swine consultant Karina Mikkelsen delivered a clear message to producers at the 2026 Manitoba Swine Seminar in Winnipeg: focus on the sow first.“The sow is a princess,” Mikkelsen said. “If you take good care of the sow, you take good care of the piglets.”Mikkelsen brings more than 20 years of experience in
