Reach for the Top with Agriculture Labor Summit
Given the recent changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, attracting and retaining labor in the agriculture industry is more challenging than ever.
That’s why Alberta Pork is proud to be a co-sponsor of the 2014 Agriculture Labour Summit on October 30, 2014 in Red Deer.
The conference will
Three to five years, having hog producers report the comings and goings of their animals wouldn’t have put them on the organizers’ Christmas list, but having a disease outbreak threat hanging over heads changes the tune.
Christina Carley, the traceability coordinator with Alberta Pork says, in light of the risks associated with the spread of
The continuing tension between Russia and Ukraine is concerning since it appears a tinderbox needing only a spark to escalate into a war which could too easily escalate into a conflict which includes NATO, and potentially a larger battle zone.
The situation is also yet another example of how politics can dramatically influence agriculture markets.
Recently,
The Big Hit tourney sends more kids to camp around the world
Every so often you really get to do something that you love doing, and the time spent goes to a good cause, and those who benefit get a shot at a life-changing experience.
Recently, I had the privilege of umpiring six slow pitch games
Doug Chorney, president of Keystone Agricultural Producers says activists setting Manitoba government’s agenda threaten Maple Leaf plant in Brandon.
Morgan Curran-Blaney, the manager of Maple Leaf Brandon says, for the company’s Brandon, MB pork processing plant to reach full double shift capacity it will need to access another 20 thousand hogs per week.
That plant can
Hog prices are relatively high, and feed grain prices relatively low, but there is a caveat with those relatively low feed grain prices, quality.
With the rains, frost, and length the crops are staying in the field, Brian Voth of St. Agathe, MB v-p, and senior marketing coach for Agri-Trend says during that last week
While three cases of PEDv virus does not an epidemic make, the third PEDv case on a sow farm in southeastern Manitoba, is cause for grave concern says Karl Kynoch, chair of Manitoba Pork.
The week of September 22, the Office of the Chief Veterinarian in Manitoba posted a notification to the MAFRD website stating
Here are some observations and comments put together to further highlight what PigTrace Canada is and isn’t.
The United States does not have an electronic movement reporting system like the Canadian pork industry, nor are they in the process of implementing such a system and Canada is way ahead.
The U.S. is thinking about traceability, developing
As processing plants like Maple Leaf Foods in Brandon, MB go begging for hogs to keep the plant going at full capacity, the hog industry is fighting an uphill battle in trying to increase production.
In Manitoba, impossible because of the NDP government’s ban on hog barn expansion laying Lake Winnipeg cleanup squarely on the
The hog prices, feed prices, supply and demand, and of course the dreaded PED virus keeps the game interesting and not for the faint at heart. In Manitoba, there is one other caveat, that of the moratorium, meaning ban on any hog expansion, and in the rest of the world, finances, and high construction
