The chair of Sask Pork, Florian Possberg says pork producers should take advantage of the warm summer temperatures to prepare for a heightened risk of PED virus as the weather begins to turn colder.
In mid-July Saskatchewan’s Chief Veterinary Officer reported a sample taken from a truck in Saskatchewan hauling pigs in Manitoba and Ontario,
The look on 11-year-old Dakota Sabyan’s face says it best as he takes the first bite from a slice of fresh banana loaf: Pure bliss.
He and his mom are regular shoppers at an on-farm grocery story, opened last year on the Warburg Colony, located just North of Alberta Hwy 39, about 90 km southwest
When hog producers and industry representatives get together, especially internationally as they did in Des Moines, IA recently at the World Pork Expo, problems in the industry certainly get discussed, with the M-COOL issue being no exception.
Andrew Dickson, the general manager of Manitoba Pork Council says more Americans recognize the need to resolve Mandatory
Dr. Doug McDougald, a leading Ontario swine veterinarian, says he’s confident the province’s hog farmers can eradicate Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus, even though it’s probably now on more than 100 farms.
McDougald bases his optimism on the experience of Sunterra Farms, a Canadian company finishing approximately 350,000 pigs in the United States mid-west with most
About 4,500 pigs died when fire swept through a hog barn at the Bentley Hutterite Colony on a Monday morning in early July.
Bentley Fire Chief Todd Gustafson said they got the call about 6:45 a.m. and when the first volunteer firefighters arrived heavy smoke was already billowing from one of two large hog barns
While the grain markets continue to slide, the hog profits rise, which not a good thing for grain producers, but an excellent thing for the hog industry, but in Manitoba the processing hog numbers dilemma continues.
Andrew Dickson, the general manager of Manitoba Pork says it’s critical to rebuild hog numbers within Manitoba to ensure
Walking outside into the bright summer sun after the annual awards dinner and silent auction may have been the biggest surprise of all at the 40th-annual Alberta Pork Congress in Red Deer.
For a variety of reasons – mainly weather related – the show’s board of directors decided to move the dates this year to
PigTrace is an industry led, live animal traceability initiative to ensure protection, prosperity and peace of mind for the Canadian pork industry and its customers meaning every pig that comes or goes has a trace, no matter who, where or when.
The pig industry in Canada designed the new mandatory national pig traceability system to
Pumping manure is one thing, but applying it so the land base gets the right nutrients and governments don’t get their collective noses out of join is quite another.
Doug Redekop of Steinbach, MB., is the president and general manager of Precision Pumping, and manure pumping co-operative set up 20 years ago to service a
PED & Vaccine UpdateStrict adherence to bio-security and sanitation protocols remains the chief defence against PED, even with the release in June of a vaccine developed to control the virus, says an Alberta veterinarian.
Red Deer-based swine specialist Egan Brockhoff joined Hank Harris and Joel Harris of Iowa-based Harris Vaccines Inc. on July 31 for a
