Doug Chorney, president of Keystone Agricultural Producers says activists setting Manitoba government’s agenda threaten Maple Leaf plant in Brandon.
Morgan Curran-Blaney, the manager of Maple Leaf Brandon says, for the company’s Brandon, MB pork processing plant to reach full double shift capacity it will need to access another 20 thousand hogs per week.
That plant can

While three cases of PEDv virus does not an epidemic make, the third PEDv case on a sow farm in southeastern Manitoba, is cause for grave concern says Karl Kynoch, chair of Manitoba Pork.
The week of September 22, the Office of the Chief Veterinarian in Manitoba posted a notification to the MAFRD website stating

As processing plants like Maple Leaf Foods in Brandon, MB go begging for hogs to keep the plant going at full capacity, the hog industry is fighting an uphill battle in trying to increase production.
In Manitoba, impossible because of the NDP government’s ban on hog barn expansion laying Lake Winnipeg cleanup squarely on the

When farmers used stoneboats, horses, and pitchforks to spread their manure on the fields during the winter on snow-covered and frozen fields, much of it would drift anywhere but down to the soil where the plants could use it the next spring.
Once people recognized the fact manure had some real nutrient value, governments and

Operators of an assembly yard attached to the Olymel processing plant in Red Deer are jumping in front of a set of videos revealing incidents of animal abuse inside the facility.
“If we have systems and we have procedures that are broken, we will fix them,” Western Hog Exchange Chairman Brent Moen said about video