Happy official first day of fall, as I am penning this, a cool morning so no combines moving quite yet. Although around this area anyway, they have been making great time with warm breezy afternoons. With the fall season brings the many opportunities to refresh and rekindle our minds with the various seminars and
Bacon Wrapped Pork Medallions with Pears
Ingredients
1 lb (500 g) Canadian Pork Tenderloin
4 thick slices Canadian Side Bacon
2 firm pears, peeled, cored and cut into wedges
2 tbsp (25 ml) butter, divided
1/2 cup (125 ml) shallots or onions, minced
1 cup (250 ml) chicken stock
1/2 cup (125 ml) port, Marsala, or Madeira wine
3 tbsp (50 ml) grainy
The biennial EuroTier trade fair held in Hannover Germany is the world’s leading trade fair for animal production, focusing on pigs, cattle, sheep, goats, horses, poultry, fish farming and also bioenergy. It will take place Nov 15 – 18, 2016 and is held at the huge Hannover “Messe” showground, with buses being provided for
CentrePort Canada is North America’s largest inland port, offering 20,000 acres of high-quality, affordable industrial land and unique access to tri-modal transportation, including three Class I railways (Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, and BNSF Railway), a 24/7 global air cargo airport and an international trucking hub.
Recently Imperial Seed broke ground on its new agricultural hub
Gerry Ritz, the Member of Parliament for Battlefords-Lloydminster /International Trade Critic for the Conservative Party of Canada isn’t quite yet prepared to hang ‘em up as the saying often goes when people think it might be time to retire.
In a recent interview, to determine where he wants to take his new position too, we
Farming getting more difficult Family gatherings are for me a great place to be for various reasons. The one I attended recently on a Sunday in September has several family farms, and about six different opinions on things, but they are all into producing food and I often pick up great comments, observations and
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
