In the opinion of many, a carbon tax on anything will do nothing else than add cost to everything people do. On the other hand, while adding costs to everything we do and produce it also makes Canada much less competitive because no other country is silly enough to do the same. Another reason
Tyler Fulton, the Director of Risk management with HAMS Marketing Services said futures markets had shown improvement in spite of substantially higher than expected live hog numbers.
In early March, most of the summer months’ futures have recovered to roughly halfway back to their highs but acknowledged it’s still very volatile, but futures values are
Animal Nutrition Conference of Canada Top feed industry event May 15-16 in Niagara Falls showcases epigenetics & more. New frontiers in animal nutrition are generating dynamic new opportunities for livestock and feed industries to become more efficient, profitable and sustainable. Participants from across the animal nutrition industry can learn about the latest
The swine sector appears under the threat of what would be its version of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or at least have the same effect on markets.
African swine fever is a disease in hogs which currently has the world market for pigs and pork on edge.
A recent story at www.producer.com noted the “disease is
Year of The Pig
As we all know it is the Chinese year of the pig, and what better way to celebrate then with chocolate. On a recent trip to Canmore, referred by a family friend, I discovered treasure. Pig treasure, Pig Chocolate treasure at Le Chocolatier, a spread of chocolate pigs. So many
Alberta’s leadership in handling livestock emergencies is being held up as a model for the rest of the continent while some of the actual incidents are shown as examples of how badly things can really go.
Rebecca Gimenez-Husted, founder of Georgia-based TLAER (Technical Large Animal Emergency Rescue), provided an overview of her experience in livestock
Only two short years ago, when the hog industry’s recovery started after some tough years Barry Watson, the District Director for the Steinbach District with Farm Credit Canada said the financial world has a role to play in helping facilitate the construction of new hog finishing capacity in western Canada.
Fast forward to the Manitoba
Myrna Grahn, the Manager of the University of Manitoba’s Bruce D. Campbell Farm and Food Discovery Centre said consumers want to learn more about the food they eat from someone they can trust. Grahn spoke recently at the 2019 Manitoba Swine Seminar in the session ‘Once Upon a Time: Our Story Through the Eyes
Dr. Leah Dorman, the Director of Food Integrity and Consumer Engagement with Phibro Animal Health in Columbus, OH encouraged farmers to engage with consumers on a shared value basis. Dorman who spoke on ‘Reframing the Conversation’ in Winnipeg during the 2019 Manitoba Swine Seminar said consumers have a lot of questions about how producers
Fears have given way to determination as Alberta’s swine industry adjusts to a new normal that involves confirmed cases of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus on four farms. Certainly, it’s stressful for producers and especially those who have had to deal with sick animals and the inevitable loss of their baby pigs, says Javier
