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Pork industry hoping for strong exports

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Demand for Canadian pork is expected to be strong in 2012, but export sales will be key. “We expect exports to be relatively stable, hopefully with better prices,” said Canadian Pork Council president Jurgen Preugschas. “We’re always hopeful that our industry doesn’t suffer losses like it has in previous years.” As of Nov. 1, pork
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F.X. Aherne prizes awarded at the Banff Pork Seminar

Garrett Gerbrandt of the Puratone Corporation in Niverville is one of three pork industry innovators honoured with the F.X. Aherne prize for innovative pork production, presented at the 2012 Banff Pork Seminar, held Jan. 17-20. Gerbrandt received the award for his invention of unique, livestock-friendly loading plates for finishing farms, which are used throughout the
Hogs, Livestock

Functioning teats needed for successful piglet fostering

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Cross-fostering is a common way of maximizing the number of piglets weaned in a sow farrowing operation. But like all livestock management techniques, there are no hard and fast rules, only guidelines that are based on the resources available to the barn manager, said Dennis Robles, a hog production expert with Swine Health Professionals. The
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Supplementary rearing worth a second look

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Genetic advances in litter size over the last 15 years have provided hog producers with the potential for 14 or more piglets born alive per litter and the ability to boost herd output to 30 pigs weaned per sow. But as I have pointed out in previous articles, this presents a number of challenges and
Crops, Dairy cattle, Hogs

China To Become World’s Top Farm Products Importer

BEIJING / REUTERS China will become the world s largest importer of agriculture products in five to 10 years as the country faces pressure from shrinking farmland and other constraints on production, a top government think-tank researcher was cited by local media as saying. Cheng Guoqiang, a researcher with the Development Research Center of the
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New Science Chair To Encourage Women

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Asoil scientist from the University of Manitoba has been named the Prairie region s new Chair for Women in Science and Engineering by the National Sciences and Engineer ing Research Council (NSERC). Annemieke Farenhorst will receive a total of $1.4 million over the next five years from NSERC and the additional funding partners: Manitoba Pork
Hogs, Livestock

Simple Changes Can Reduce Hog Transport Losses

Bernie Peet Peet on Pigs Losses of pigs between the farm and the point of slaughter can be reduced significantly by relatively simple changes to facilities and handling, according to two speakers at the recent Red Deer Swine Technology Workshop. Dr. Jennifer Brown from the Prairie Swine Centre described an observational study of 10 commercial
Hogs, Livestock

KAP Uses Winnipeg Sewage Issues To Defend Farm Record

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Unt reated Winnipeg sewage flowing into the Red River and eventually Lake Winnipeg has given Doug Chorney a platform to complain about how hog farmers are unfairly blamed for excessive phosphorus levels in the lake. According to the president of the Keystone Agricultural Producers regulations restricting the construction of new hog barns and the expansion
Hogs, Livestock

Russia Reports Three More Swine Fever Outbreaks

news moscow / reuters / Russia s animal and plant health watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor said Nov. 7 it had registered three new outbreaks of African swine fever (ASF), in the Rostov, Voronezh and Kursk regions bordering Ukraine. Unlike most previous cases, when ASF was discovered at small backyard farms, in Voronezh it was discovered at a
Hogs, Livestock

Russia Finds More Swine Fever

Russia s animal and plant health watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor said Oct. 31 it had registered three new outbreaks of African swine fever (ASF), of which two were spotted in the south of the country and one in the Kursk region on the border with Ukraine. In all three cases the outbreaks of the disease, lethal to

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