To get another perspective on what hog prices are doing around the world, Jim Long hog commentator says the U.S. hog industry is now hovering around breakeven with hog prices averaging about 61.50 cents/lb lean or 46c/ live-weight.
“The low cost of corn is keeping the industry from hemorrhaging dollars at these prices but sow
The hog industry has its share of issues and challenges, the least of which is not the different diseases that keep popping up and herd health.
Dr. Amy Snow, the National Manager of the Foreign Animal Disease Program, part of the Animal Health Directorate of the CFIA says the agency’s investigation into an incident involving
With fall officially here hog prices and market cycles often change especially after the warm, hot days of summer and now fall and winter just around the corner.
Tyler Fulton, the Director of Risk Management with h@ms Marketing Services says the balance between U.S. hog slaughter numbers and U.S. slaughter capacity will be among the
Farmers at Spring Creek Hutterite Colony near the Alberta and Saskatchewan border have achieved a milestone in the evolution of Canadian hog production by becoming among the first major farms in the Canadian Prairies to ship ‘RWA’ (Raised Without Antibiotics) hogs to market.
The shipment of 200 hogs at market weight of 265 pounds was
The more programs governments develop, the more farmers depend on them, and becomes inherently more important for the powers that be, governments, stakeholders, farmers, and those who develop those policies to get it right.
Years ago, when the first European farmers first came to Canada, many came because they were tired of farming paper. Those
An unprecedented crash in meat prices will top the agenda when Alberta Pork calls members together for its Annual General Meeting in Calgary on Nov. 9.
“We’re going to be facing some pretty steep challenges come our AGM date, mostly on pricing, because right now, the futures are looking very poor and our producers are
There’s a big crop coming off in Canada and the United States, but here in Western Canada, while big the moisture has played some havoc with quality.
Dr. Denise Beaulieu, an Assistant Professor in Monogastric Nutrition with the University of Saskatchewan says, while harvested grain contaminated by low levels of Deoxynivalenol (DON) can be mixed
Former Ag minister Gerry Ritz, and now the Conservative party’s new international trade critic says agriculture is still a major focus for him and other Conservative members of parliament because it remains and will continue to be a major focus and economic driver for Canada and especially for Western Canada.
“In my case oil and
The CME Group’s daily livestock letter sights hog slaughter numbers in the third week of September as truly ‘shocking’ and the fear is that hog supplies on the ground are larger than what packers are able to process during a regular work week.
“The last time packers exceeded ‘normal’ processing capacity was in the fall
The PED virus strikes twice within one week in Manitoba, other provinces stand up and take notice tightening their own biosecurity protocols making sure it doesn’t strike in their backyards and rightfully so. The disease outbreak while only in ten barns so far in Manitoba causes stress and devastation to those hit, and stress
