To run any industry takes good people, but to run the hog industry, in Canada, or any given province takes extra effort and time, especially during the roller coaster ride of the last seven to ten years.
Scott Peters, a director of the Manitoba Pork Council and Canadian Pork Council, and an owner of Herbsigwil
The roller coaster ride for the hog industry continues. In late October, while hog markets were higher as market participants consider whether the market is oversold in recent weeks, the December contract stood at $87.95/cwt, compared to around $95 at the beginning of October.
That is quite a drop. Slaughter numbers for that week at
I attend a variety of trade fairs around the world and it never fails to amaze me that farmers are happy to trudge round the showground carrying a big plastic bucket all day long, emblazoned with a colourful company logo. Then again it’s a handy receptacle for the reams of advertising material and wall
A study of production costs on Alberta hog farms continues to find a wide variation between the profits and costs among the 22 participants.
Project leader Murray Roeske, working on behalf of Alberta Pork and the ALMA (Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency), now has three years of data from those farms and offered his analysis
The idea of recycling is one embraced by many these days. And while we generally think of recycling as taking a used product, breaking it down, and using it to create something new, there are other ways to go about.
One of those is to find new uses for materials which have out-lived their initial
With winter here, cold temperatures and snow on the ground, the hog industry will watch with care and in some cases holding its collective breath to see if lessons learned and tighter, consistent biosecurity will hold the line against PEDv.
First off in Manitoba, Dr. Megan Bergman, Manitoba’s chief veterinary officer (CVO) says Manitoba hog
The hog industry keeps going through changes and transitions, some good, others better, and some questionable, especially those shifts in market prices and profit and loss statements dictate. There are even some that activists of various stripes convince mainstream pork people to implement.
Paul Meers of Paul Meers Consulting in Smithfield, MO says producers building
Two days go hand in hand
Two important days, events, seasons if you like, go hand in hand in Canada, Thanksgiving and Remembrance. The first one has always stood out in my life, and family because the churches I attended growing up made this out to be such an important event, including inspirational messages on
Safety is always in the back of minds for farmers although sometimes gets forgotten. At Rock Lake Colony in June it was brought to the fore front of student minds at Progressive Agriculture Farm Safety Day. The day was designed to promote farm safety says co ordinator David Gross. This was the ninth
Sent to destroy a nine-headed serpent that had been wreaking havoc on the town of Lerna, Hercules discovered to his dismay that every time he smashed one of its heads, two more would grow in its place.
Hercules was fortunate to have the help of his nephew, Iolaus, who cauterized each head as he smashed
