Walking outside into the bright summer sun after the annual awards dinner and silent auction may have been the biggest surprise of all at the 40th-annual Alberta Pork Congress in Red Deer.
For a variety of reasons – mainly weather related – the show’s board of directors decided to move the dates this year to
PigTrace is an industry led, live animal traceability initiative to ensure protection, prosperity and peace of mind for the Canadian pork industry and its customers meaning every pig that comes or goes has a trace, no matter who, where or when.
The pig industry in Canada designed the new mandatory national pig traceability system to
Pumping manure is one thing, but applying it so the land base gets the right nutrients and governments don’t get their collective noses out of join is quite another.
Doug Redekop of Steinbach, MB., is the president and general manager of Precision Pumping, and manure pumping co-operative set up 20 years ago to service a
PED & Vaccine UpdateStrict adherence to bio-security and sanitation protocols remains the chief defence against PED, even with the release in June of a vaccine developed to control the virus, says an Alberta veterinarian.
Red Deer-based swine specialist Egan Brockhoff joined Hank Harris and Joel Harris of Iowa-based Harris Vaccines Inc. on July 31 for a
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Greetings all, I am typing this just before heading out camping for the long weekend. The forecast is great so it should be a good time.I am reminded that a year ago we printed a story on the huge response to the Code of Practice. There were over 4700 comments after
Some people in the hog industry are relaxing a mite while others keep pushing for heightened and even more stringent bio-security protocols as farms keep breaking out in the United States and things remain stable across Canada.
Dr. Chris Byra, the manager of the Canadian Swine Health Intelligence Network says with the exception of one
Alberta Pork Expands Team
Alberta Pork Welcomes New Animal Care & Quality Assurance CoordinatorAlberta Pork is pleased to announce that we have hired a new Quality Assurance Coordinator to replace the recently departed Audrey Cameron. Javier Bahamon was raised in a rural setting in Colombia where he developed an early passion for the swine industry.
Maple Leaf Foods (Brandon) announced recently they have started a reduced processing schedule by cutting one day per month, for the next five months. “This temporary “brown-out” is because of a lack of market hogs. This situation will not improve until producers build more barns to produce market hogs,” says Karl Kynoch, Chair of
Manitoba Pork reports information gathered through a 2012, producer survey is playing a key role in developing the infrastructure needed to accommodate swine traceability.
This survey launched by Manitoba Pork in 2012, collected information for use when representing producers to government, to update producer contact information and to gather information for the provincial agriculture department
From the publishers desk,Hello all. As I am typing this I just finished listening to a loud thunder and lightning storm. It didn’t last long but was pretty intense. It made me think of our industry, sometimes things seem intense and we are never really sure how long they are going to last. With
