Novid Welcomes New Member
Novid Inc., a leader in stainless steel fabrication is pleased to announce the addition of Shawn Compton to their team.
Ryan Plett, President of Novid was quoted as saying; “We’re very proud to have Shawn come on board with our team as our Director of Business Development for our Livestock Division.
Prairie Livestock Expo
Prairie Livestock Expo, which will be held at the Victoria Inn and Conference Centre Wednesday December 12th in Winnipeg 9am – 6pm. The one day show features the largest pork quality competition along with New & Evolving Technologies presentations. Free admission, free parking. •
Banff Pork Seminar
Banff Pork Seminar will take place at
While the people owning and operating the farms, the number of people needed to run the farms and do the work keeps dropping steadily and the lack thereof hurts the overall economy.
Janice Goldsborough, the Human Resources and Training Coordinator with Manitoba Pork said the growing lack of available farm workers threatens to take a
Magnum Swine Genetics, which is based just outside Fort McLeod, Alberta, has seen some solid growth since its beginnings in the fall of 1996. MSG is Air Cargo Certified and approved by the CFIA. They have clients all across Canada.
“We started with 30 spaces for boars,” explained owner Andrew Beusekom, on a recent visit
Cranberry Spiced Pork Roast
Ingredients
3 lb (1.5 kg) Canadian Pork Loin, Leg or Shoulder Roast, boneless
3/4 cup (175 ml) whole berry cranberry sauce
1 cup (250 ml) cranberry juice
1/2 cup (125 ml) chopped red onion
1/4 cup (50 ml) dark rum (optional)
2 tbsp (25 ml) canola oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 tbsp (15 ml) fresh chopped parsley
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Telling the story of farming the right way
On a recent Saturday morning, I spent some time telling the story of agriculture with an urban radio station, CJOB in Winnipeg with host Clay Young. The reason is that it is crucial for me just like in other publications that those who are once, twice, and
The company started very modestly in the early 1970s in Hutton Cranswick, near Driffield, East Yorkshire, England, as a feed mill producing three basic rations for the East Riding Quality Bacon Producers Group.
Now fast forward to 2018. Cranswick plc, which was floated on the stock market in 1985, is now a highly rated company
At the recent open house at the Blue Ribbon Sow barn farm near Pansy, MB the barn owner and general manager Craig Sawatzky talked about how new technologies helped them overcome a tragic barn and animal fire and moved forward with a new and converted sow barn.
Ray Funk of Steinbach, MB, a partner in
You don’t have to have been involved in agriculture all that long to recall that the biggest detriment to Canadian farm exports used to be subsidies paid by the United States and the European Union.
The two sides were battling for markets by undercutting each other to attract buyers, and then backfilling losses to their
Proper washing and disinfection of swine transport trailers is an important step in maintaining biosecurity. Research projects have shown visual inspection of trailers is not a reliable assessment1. While traditional microbiological culture method can be used, they involve the use of plated media which need to be incubated and analyzed to obtain the level
