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14 08, 2015

Grilled Mango and Pork

Grilled Mango and Pork – Spinach Salad

Ingredients

1 lb (500 g) Canadian Pork Loin or Shoulder Blade

Roast or Chops, boneless, well trimmed

3 tbsp (45 ml) canola oil, divided

22 firm ripe mangos

1/2 cup (125 ml) orange juice

1/4 cup (50 ml) lemon juice

1/4 tsp (1 ml) EACH salt and ground black pepper

8 cups (2 l) packed spinach leaves,

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14 08, 2015

Kudos

Banff Pork Seminar
appoints new Coordinator

The Banff Pork Seminar has a fresh face coordinating the 2016 event. Ashley Steeple has been appointed to the position of Coordinator.
A leading seminar of its kind in the world, the Banff Pork Seminar is one of the longest running events supporting knowledge and progress for the pork industry. The

14 08, 2015

Pork Chops

Red Deer Swine Tech
Planning has begun for the 2015 Red Deer Swine Technology Workshop. Mark your calendars for Wednesday October 21st in Red Deer at the Sheraton.
Some topics include: Antibiotic benchmark and resistance; Animal welfare audits; Understanding date; Foreign worker programs; Pain mitigation and the Code of Practice plus others.
Registration is $80 each, or

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14 08, 2015

Pig Farming, Cambodia Style

Tourism is big business in Cambodia and visitors naturally have to eat, and pork is a popular dish on most menus. In addition, as the standard of living increases in the country more pork is eaten by the local population.
Cambodia has a pretty small pig industry, with around 200,000 sows. Small family operations –

14 08, 2015

Wild Boar Movement Reporting Now Mandatory Under Health of Animals Act

Regulations under Canada’s Health of Animals Act that took effect just over one year ago for producers of domestic swine now apply to producers of farmed wild boar.
Since July of last year federal regulations have required both the shipper and receiver of domestic swine to report movements to the PigTrace Canada database and those

14 08, 2015

On The Edge With Siemens Says: Culture and information exchange between farmers in Canada and Paraguay

On July 29, we left for the Chaco, Paraguay as guests of the Menno Colony where I will do eight farm presentations, Judith will hold several health staff round table discussions, and I will preach one message in the Menno Colony Mennonite Conference church, our original contact and host for that weekend, Elmer Kehler

14 08, 2015

Prairies Prospective

When you live on the Canadian Prairies you tend to have a rather narrow view of what agriculture means here.
Alberta is thought of as the land of ranches and cattle.
Saskatchewan still holds onto the idea of being the bread basket of the world because of wheat.
And so on it has gone through the years.
Granted

14 08, 2015

Being Vigilant and Having a Plan Has Helped Alberta Face PED

Alberta’s vigilance over biosecurity has protected its pork market, but producers and transporters still can’t let their guard down.
When porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) hit Canada last year, most of the cases occurred in Ontario, with a few in Quebec, Manitoba and PEI. But it has yet to spread across the Alberta boundary.
“It’s really you

14 08, 2015

Thunder Creek Pork Has Open House to Provides Transparency

There was a time when farmers, ag suppliers, processors, it didn’t really matter who and what, weren’t that keen on showing the public what and how they produce their food. Why, because they had refined their business, shop, barn or feedlot, and / or feedlot, or the like.
Today the pendulum keeps swinging in the

14 08, 2015

Fines For Failing to Report Live Hog Movement in Canada Are Imminent

Jeff Clark, the manager of PigTrace Canada, says fines for failing to report movements of live hogs could come into effect as early as later this year.
Rolf Penner, a grain, special crops, and hog farmer at Morris, MB, isn’t surprised. When the pork industry introduced the program and made it mandatory, Penner then wasn’t