Once again members of the Stampede Pork Committee team, including pork producers, spent 10 days in Calgary during the Stampede at the pork showcase. The exhibit featured a sow and her piglets along with three 11 week old pigs. This live animal display provides an interactive and engaging presentation of the Alberta pork industry.
If you put representatives of different countries at the table and throw out an issue you are going to get arguments. That is simply the reality in a world where countries all have agendas based on what they deem as best for them. Even when it’s just major trading partners such as Canada and the United
As Rick Bergmann, chair of CPC, references in another article in this edition. The US and Canada collaborate in different forums, although on different sides of the 49th work together in many areas for hog sector.
A pig is a pig so advocating for pork producers in one country helps in other countries too. The president-elect of
Eric Guy
Recent meeting in Swift Current
Mycotoxins are hidden thieves on farms that hurt profit and performance; forgetting the myths and learning the facts was the headline of a recent series of meetings in western Canada by Alltech Canada. Eric Guy the Manitoba and Saskatchewan Alltech feed additives representative said a big myth is farmers often
Keep the faith but troubling times Two issues come to mind as I write this column. The first had farmers in Western Canada riled up. Here is the headline of a release as to why ‘Trudeau moves forward with fertilizer reduction policy.’A Saskatchewan government release said the Alberta and Saskatchewan agriculture ministers have expressed “profound
Outside and Inside the VIDO lab
Dr. Volker Gerdts, the director and CEO of VIDO said a new in-house pilot scale vaccine manufacturing facility will likely make vaccines by the fourth quarter of this year. The Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, on the campus of the University of Saskatchewan, is developing this new facility. With construction almost
We’re very pleased to collaborate with SASK Pork to test newtechnologies that will help improve biosecurity and protect herdsfrom disease.
A pilot project underway in Saskatchewan is assessing technology designed to track the movement of swine transport vehicles. Guelph-based Farm Health Guardian and the Saskatchewan Pork Development Board are collaborating on a pilot project to assess the
Rick Bergmann with Brad Hennen at World Pork Expo
Rick Bergmann, hot on the newly-opening farm meeting circuit, outlined the state of the Canadian hog industry and where it is going when looking at the global scene following the World Pork Expo. Bergmann said producers’ cost of production is extremely high due to the feed costs
Dr John Carr attending IPVS 2022 in Rio de Janeiro, shares some pictures from presentations.
Dr. John Carr, a world livestock consultant, veterinarian, and lecturer, living in Brisbane, Australia reported via email on the International Pig Veterinary Society getting back together after a Covid break. [And now a hot-shot international reporter.] At last, after a two-year
File photo of Steve Meyer from a previous Banff Pork Seminar
Dr. Steve Meyer, an economist with Partners for Production Agriculture told the World Pork Expo in Des Moines, Iowa in early June the number one hot topic for hog producers is the cost [high] of production. This includes grain prices in the world, driven
