12 02, 2015

On The Edge With Siemens Says

Hashtags, farm meetings and items in file 13
As I sit in the Banff Centre hotel contemplating what to write for this column, several things come to mind.
While still attending a few key farm meetings and conventions, it is certainly not possible for me to attend the shear numbers I did when back as a young

12 02, 2015

Prairie Swine Centre Testing Future of Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology – it’s a word most people became familiar with while watching science fiction movies, but it’s become a modern reality. But what exactly is it? And how can it help push the pork industry forward into a new future? That’s precisely what the Prairie Swine Centre wanted to discover with a recent research

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12 02, 2015

Jurgen Preugschas says the Weaker Loonie Helps us to Compete

After seven lean years as a hog producer and making some changes going forward it is good to see some big profits returning to the pig business, says past chair of the Canadian Pork Council and an Alberta mixed farmer.
Jurgen Preugschas, farming since 1970, says following seven lean years in the pig business, he

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12 02, 2015

Accolades and Kudos for Hog Industry

Rick Bergmann of Steinbach, MB who is the new chair for the Canadian Pork Council says key highlights of 2014 are substantial improvements in profitability, significant developments on the trade front, major advances in biosecurity and animal health.
Some coin 2014 as maybe the best year Manitoba hog producers have ever had, but that is

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12 02, 2015

Ramping up Biosecurity in the Hog Business is Good -Lack of Financing to Expand Isn’t

The Banff Pork seminar 2015, like the previous 43 years is a place to flush out the facts and the emotions in one way or the other.
Biosecurity is at the top of the list for everyone inside the industry and those on the outside looking in, who sometimes make contact with those on the

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12 02, 2015

The Hog Carcass Competition is a Win Win for Everyone

There was a time where the hog carcass competition during hog and poultry days alternating between Brandon and Winnipeg, wasn’t nearly as important to the industry and the winners as in later years.

In 2014, changing it from Hog and Poultry Days to the Prairie Livestock Expo, and a brand new venue saw thousands of

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12 02, 2015

Production Troubleshooting  BPS

Pigs sleeping happily, piled one and a half deep, is one of the most certain signs that all is well in the barn, says one of three experts called to address production troubleshooting at the 2015 Banff Pork Seminar.
Minnesota-based production consultant Michael Brumm joined Ontario producer Ryan Martin and Ontario veterinarian Marsha Van

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12 02, 2015

Lessons Learned from PED  BPS

Having to euthanize newborn pigs was probably the toughest task of all for barn staff dealing with the consequences of porcine epidemic diarrhea, says an Ontario producer.
Tom Graydon runs Catfish Creek Pork Ltd., a multi-site operation located near Brownsville, about midway between Detroit, Michigan and Buffalo, New York.
Graydon outlined for delegates at

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12 02, 2015

Marketing Hogs – The Big Picture BPS

Plenary sessions at the Banff Pork Seminar provide opportunities to hear people with wide-ranging expertise square off on the major factors influencing swine production.
Canada’s position as a net exporter requires its producers and processors to be mindful of a vast array of influences at play within a wide and ever changing variety of markets.

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12 02, 2015

Banff Plays Perfect Host

 

Banff Pork Seminar will celebrate its 45th anniversary with a move back to its former home – the internationally renowned Fairmont Banff Springs hotel and convention centre.
The oldest and likely the most photographed tourist facility in Canada’s park system, the original wing of the Banff Springs was built in the mid-1880s and opened for