Connect OnFarm Celebrates Two Plus Years of Strong Business Growth
A new company with fresh approaches based on grass roots farmer relationships is blazing a new trail across the livestock feed business. Connect OnFarm, based in Lethbridge, Alta., has surpassed the milestone of two years in business and has enjoyed a strong run of increasing
Happy Easter. Yes I know by the time this issue hits the street and the web Easter has passed, but I’m typing it on Saturday of the Easter weekend. I do hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend with family and friends.
Included within in this edition is coverage from the Manitoba Swine Seminar.
When Perry Mohr, the retiring general manager of h@MS Marketing Services started in the hog business 28 years, the Manitoba Hog Marketing Board had 3,100 hog producers delivering hogs for marketing. Today, the number of hog producers h@MS serves is 144 across Western Canada.
“We don’t represent every producer in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, or Alberta, but
Beware Canadian pork producers – Comply with the Canadian Ractopamine-Free Pork Certification Program because of much more closely monitoring in the future.
The Canadian pork industry drives the Canadian Ractopamine-Free Pork Certification Program to assure international customers their pork is free of Ractopamine.
Dr. Egan Brockhoff, a swine veterinarian in Alberta says producers need to be
Yorkshire pig farmers are renowned worldwide for not pulling any punches and producer Ian Broumpton was in fine voice when this author visited him recently on his farm near Beverley, East Yorkshire.
Never a fan of red tape, Ian was sounding off at the latest imposition forced up on him. “I have to go on
Dr. John Carr of Melbourne, Australia, BVSc PhD DPM, a veterinarian and a worldwide consultant to the animal production industry highlighted several issues in a recent sit down interview, just before he caught a flight back to Ukraine in February.
While not personal to Canada, the African Swine Fever in Eastern Europe could have some
World Pork Expo
The dates are set for the 2016 World Pork Expo — June 8-10 — at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa. World Pork Expo is brought to you by the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) and presents a wide range of activities, including the world’s largest pork-specific trade show, educational
The idea of a social media site such as Facebook does not immediately jump to mind as a resource for farmers.
Yet, I increasingly realize it is just that, and perhaps a crucial tool, at least for those who are farming on a small scale, with specific interests and specialized farm approaches.
Three of those are
To work in Canada is a privilege
I remember my first real summer job, other than on my father’s farm which started much, much earlier, pitching green peas from the trucks into the conveyors that took that green stuff into the Winkler pea cannery. Most likely in 1962 or 63, can’t quite remember, but I.
Eggs – make that Hyper-Egg (s) came into their own when the PED virus forced plasma off the market in 2014. “Orders for our Hyper-Egg Antibody products increased dramatically in the weeks after CFIA officials found the PED virus in porcine blood plasma,” said John Hare, J. H. Hare and Associates Ltd producer of
