Brent Moen
Time is running out on Western Canada’s hog industry, with one factor at the bottom line: Producers absolutely must earn a higher share of the carcass value if they are to continue raising hogs. Industry leaders say Alberta is closing in on the critical point where there will not be enough hogs available
In a year-end review, the outgoing chair of Manitoba Pork George Matheson said animal disease risks and ensuring fair returns to hog producers are the organization’s priority issues heading into 2021. Important issues confronting Manitoba’s pork producers in 2020 are dramatic market disruptions by COVID-19, increased awareness of the spread of African Swine Fever in
Dr. Mario Tenuta, University of Manitoba is working on the pig enviromental impact survey. Photo supplied
Manitoba Pork urges all producers to participate in an online research study to document the significant progress made in recent decades to reduce the environmental impact of hog farming. The study aims to identify production efficiencies for producers and
Dr. John Carr, a world livestock consultant, veterinarian, and lecturer said the movement of infected meat by people poses the highest risk of introducing African Swine Fever into regions free of the infection. African Swine Fever: An Unrelenting Threat to Global Hog Production was among the topics discussed as part of Saskatchewan Pork Industry Symposium
Canadian pork producers are riding a rollercoaster when it comes to doing business with China, a speaker told delegates at the Saskatchewan Pork Symposium in a webinar. “Will China buy more pork in the future, short term and long term?” asked Brett Stuart, outlining a key part of his presentation. Stuart is president of a U.S.
A Swine Health Information Center-funded project is facilitating the expansion of farm-level outbreak forecasting to new regions. The SHIC plans to expand a project that uses machine learning to calculate when a sow farm will break with Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea. Researchers at the University of Minnesota built machine learning algorithms that consider factors such as recent
Tyler Fulton the director of risk management with h@ms Marketing Services said markets show 2021 will be a much more profitable year for pork producers than 2020 with COVID 19 a dominant factor influencing live hog prices. Fulton said 2020 showed event disruptions in the supply chain, having negative consequences and June, July and August
Bill Alford, the general manager of h@ms Marketing Services in Winnipeg, MB said in a year-end interview the hog industry finished 2020 on an unseasonably high note regarding hog prices. But 2020 wasn’t a typical year. And to finish the year, averages in hog prices came back and were even higher than 2018 levels. “So
Hosts and participants hope that Banff Pork Seminar’s first virtual conference will also be its last. Normally held in Banff early in January, the 50th-annual conference was offered online, free of charge, on the mornings of January 5th and 7th. The online format was chosen early in the planning stages, when it became apparent that
Happy 2021, I think all of us were ready to turn the page on 2020 and look forward to a new year. Reaching 2021 is very exciting for me as it marks the 25th year of publishing Prairie Hog Country. Not sure when Susan, original owner of PHC, called me back in 1996 to
