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Hogs, Livestock

ASF compartmentalization moves a step forward

Plan not an attempt to download responsibilities, CFIA says

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Canada is one step closer to a compartmentalizing regime that hog farmers and the rest of the industry hope protects them against market impacts of African swine fever. Practical application can be developed now that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has released its National Standards and National Framework for the Canadian ASF Compartment Program. From
“Starting the plan ahead of potential new cases will help farmers implement the preventative measures...” – Manitoba Pork Council.
Hogs, News

PED elimination plan takes the gloves off

The pork council will push its PED elimination plan this fall

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Manitoba Pork’s plan to eliminate porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) is fully operational. “Starting the plan ahead of potential new cases will help farmers implement the preventative measures included [in] the plan and allow us to broadly discuss the plan with producers and industry service providers,” the farm group wrote in an Oct. 18 newsletter. Why
U.S. consumer demand for pork is waning and Canadian producers should respond to reduced slaughter numbers, suggests the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service.
Hogs, News

USDA projects Canadian swine reduction

Manitoba industry expects capacity to grow despite USDA numbers

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The U.S. agriculture department expects fewer Canadian pigs to be produced next year. It projects that the Canadian swine herd will contract in 2024, due in part to decreased domestic processing capacity and reduced U.S. demand, according to a Sept. 24 release from the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service office in Ottawa. FAS estimated total supply of just under 42 million head in
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Hogs, Livestock, Markets

Market uncertainty, election weigh on Manitoba pork sector

Volatility remains a feature, Manitoba Pork GM says

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MarketsFarm — Cam Dahl, general manager of Manitoba Pork, has felt the highs and lows of the province’s pork industry over the past few months. While he expects Manitoba’s feed grain harvest to provide some relief to feed prices for pork producers, Dahl also mentioned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the African swine fever situation in
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Hogs, Livestock

Olymel to consolidate Ontario, Quebec further-processing

Chicken plant at Paris, Ont., and pork plant at Princeville, Que. to close

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Pork and poultry packer Olymel is preparing to permanently shut two further-processing facilities and shift their work to other plants in a new round of consolidation. Olymel, the meat packing arm of Quebec’s Sollio Cooperative, announced Wednesday it will permanently close its pork boning and packaging plant at Princeville, Que. effective Nov. 10, and its
File photo of a wild boar crossing a road in Sweden. (Ockra/iStock/Getty Images)
Hogs, Livestock

Swine fever detected in Sweden for first time

Recent outbreak in Balkans spurred culls

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Stockholm | Reuters — A dead wild boar in Sweden has tested positive for African swine fever, Sweden’s Veterinary Institute said on Wednesday, the first such case in the country. African swine fever is harmless to humans but is highly contagious and deadly in domestic pigs and wild boars. It has spread from Africa to
Robert Stwalley, a clinical associate professor in Purdue University’s department of agricultural and biological engineering, shows the hog cooling pad technology IHT has now licensed to make and sell in North America. (Photo: Tom Campbell/Purdue Agricultural Communication via Canada NewsWire)
Hogs, Livestock

Farrowing heat pad firm to bring hog cooling pads to market

Manitoba's IHT to offer new system next spring

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A Winnipeg-area company providing heating pad and lighting systems for hog barns is set to add a U.S.-developed line of hog cooling pads to its product lineup. IHT (Innovative Heating Technologies) Group announced Thursday it will make and sell a line of water-cooled pads that use a patented system designed at Purdue University in Indiana,
Mapping the changes behind Manitoba’s decades-long hog boom.
Hogs, News

For its size, Manitoba’s pork sector is an overachiever. Here’s how it happened

How NAFTA, the end of the Crow Rate and the end of single-desk marketing shaped the sector, and what got lost along the way

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Ian Smith’s hog farm hasn’t changed much since his family began raising pigs in the late 1960s. It has no pit system. Smith scrapes the pens and spreads straw twice a day. His 10 to 15 sows spend time outside. On his 160 acres near Argyle in Manitoba’s Interlake, he raises his own barley and
The pork sector is concerned about the legal precedent of the state-level Prop 12.
Hogs, News

U.S. pork firms divided over bill to overturn Prop 12

The California animal welfare law is set to come into effect in the New Year

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Reuters – Some big U.S. pork producers that have spent money to comply with a California law requiring more living space for certain farm animals are lukewarm about legislation proposed in the U.S. Congress that would overturn the state law. Why it matters: Canadian pork groups say Prop 12 will introduce non-tariff trade barriers and
The Winkler Meats expansion is a good news story for Manitoba hog producers, says industry.
Hogs, News

Pork industry lauds Winkler Meats expansion

The almost $53-million project will add 155 local jobs

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The $52.8-million expansion of the Winkler Meats processing plant in south-central Manitoba is a sign of a healthy sector, according to Manitoba Pork Council general manager Cam Dahl. “This is a really good news story, frankly, for all of Manitoba, but of course it’s especially a good news story for Manitoba hog producers,” he said.

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