It could have been the hog barn. It might have been the wide-open spaces. Or maybe it was the sight of a 79-year-old man running down a mountain trail after a five-kilometre hike that left a contingent of European livestock producers with some stunning and often overwhelming impressions of how their counterparts live and
Down a long narrow driveway, about 30 miles south of Keauhou in South Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii, we came to Kona Hawk Farm. My folks, who reside on the Big Island for the winter months, met Doug Pittman at the local market. When purchasing some of his items and through conversation
Back in February 2017, Garry Wollmann shared his story with fellow producers and industry representatives at the Manitoba Swine Seminar in Winnipeg, MB.
Wollmann is the barn manager at Clearwater Hutterite Colony near Balmoral, Manitoba where they operate a 700 sow farrow to finish producing up to 17,000 pigs which went under a special contract
Just after The Canada-West Swine Health Intelligence Network reported on Erysipelas, Rotavirus, Greasy Pig, and Influenza as the main diseases identified by swine veterinarians during the first quarter of 2018, Manitoba confirmed a new case of PEDv on May 15, 2018, in a finisher barn in Southeastern Manitoba. Biocontainment on this site is in
Early in 2017, as the swine industry in Manitoba was gearing up for another great year, a PED Virus outbreak hit the industry hard, and it took most of the year get the dreaded disease under control.
The Office of Manitoba’s Chief Veterinary Officer said all but three of the 80 swine herds infected during
Colin Robertson, the Vice President of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, is confident, despite missing another deadline for completion of a revamped North American Free Trade Agreement, a deal is still possible.
An informal deadline passed in May when the U.S. had hoped to have a revamped North American Free Trade Agreement in place to
Nutritional strategies for improving performance, profitability and sustainability took centre stage at a conference that brought some of the livestock industry’s top researchers together on May 2 and 3.
On the morning of the second day, scientists from the University of Alberta, the University of Manitoba and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Sherbrooke, QC shared
At the recent AGM of the Manitoba Pork Council Michael Young, the Vice-President Technical Programs and Marketing Services with Canada Pork International demonstrated how he sells pork around the world, especially to the Asian people in Japan, China, and South Korea. It starts with the branding known as Verified Canadian Pork and its role
Hog slaughter and meat processing lines at the Pine Haven Colony were restarted in mid-May, roughly a month after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency issued a recall of pork products sold from the plant from Feb. 19 through April 24.
Alberta Health Services announced on March 29 that it was investigating an outbreak of pathogenic
HyLife, a Manitoba integrated pork processor, headquartered in La Broquerie, with business around the world recently held an Open House to show the completion of its pork processing facility expansion and upgrade project.
The company focused the bulk of its investment modernizing the Integrated Pork Processing Plant in Neepawa with leading-edge technology making it one
