Canada’s weak dollar is creating new optimism for swine producers and pork processors, who hope it stays in the basement for a very long time.
The Canadian buck was hovering at about 70 cents at the end of January, with no indications of any real rally for two years or longer, creating an enormous advantage
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest is the third novel in the best-selling Millennium series and the last by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson.
It might also be the title for the relationship of Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and Albertan farmers.
Notley caused waves of opposition and a series of protests where farmers showed their anger
Back home and Canada’s Ag minister visits Washington I received a tweet from a friend after tweeting getting back home safe after two weeks on the road and putting on 5,000 km, where he asked if that is my vacation for the year. I told him, I need a holiday now, but no time
In another article in this publication, it shows there’s increased demand from producers in the United States for weanlings, just to fill existing sow barns.
Here George Matheson chair of Manitoba Pork says the repeal of U.S. Country of Origin Labelling will have a negligible impact on hog markets in the United States.
A delegation representing
From rising production costs to animal care, there are constant challenges the pork industry has to overcome. This includes mitigating the presence of Porcine Respiratory and Reproductive Syndrome (PRRS), which can have devastating effects on production costs and animal health.
Over the last decade, there has been a strong push to eliminate PRRS in North
Cramer Livestock Expo
Be sure to come out for the Cramer Crop and Livestock Expo. It is back for its sixth consecutive year, this years theme “Back To Our Roots,” will be held Thursday February 18th in Swift Current, SK at Kinetic Park. Trade show floor is open from 8:30 – 4:30 followed by Cramer
Late in 2015, the Manitoba government introduced a new special pilot project permit evaluation protocol designed to allow the construction of swine barns in the province to resume under 11 new conditions.
In 2006 the Manitoba government banned building and expanding hog barns in 35 RMs; then in 2011, expanded that ban to the entire
Production and processing leaders from across Canada left a meeting in Calgary on Jan. 28 with the feeling that something great is afoot.
Last fall, Michael Young from Canadian Pork International presented producers and processors with a new proposal for a pork grading system that would provide a high level of detail about what’s inside
The most stressful time in a piglet’s life is the day it says goodbye to mom. After spending three or four weeks in a farrowing room, it is time for junior to go to nursery school.
There are ways in the farrowing room to take some of the stress out of that moment in every
Euthanizing an animal is not easy, even for an expert on the field. During her presentation at the Saskatchewan Pork Industry symposium 2015, Jennifer Woods shared an experience she had with euthanasia on her Alberta sheep farm.
Woods and her family became attached to a lamb after saving it from near death. The bond was
