“People don’t want to be perceived to be associated with depression.” – GERRY FRIESEN Poor attendance at two recent rural workshops on depression emphasizes the need to explode taboos about openly discussing mental illness, organizers say. Fewer than a dozen people in each case attended public meetings in Morris and Arborg last week to talk
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Depression Seminars Draw Small Audiences
Manure-Processing Projects Approved For Funding
A hog manure lagoon and a combined hog/ chicken manure lagoon will be used in the project. Test projects to separate useful fertilizer out of liquid manure and to compost solids will get underway this spring with public and producer funding. Hog producer Hytek plans to assess a manure treatment system that separates out crop
Hog Industry Weighs Seeking More Exit Help
Canada’s hog sector is weighing the risks and benefits of asking Ottawa for more funds to help money-losing farmers cease production, industry officials said Feb. 25. Only one out of three farmer applications to the current $75-million government buyout pool has been successful. Hog farmers have suffered from years of low prices, the reduction of
Hogs Rally On Strong Cash Markets
U. S. hog futures rose for a second straight day to its highest level in 18 months Feb. 26 as tight supplies continued to stoke cash markets, and late in the session fund buying. Most-active April contract rose 6.1 per cent during the month. June equalled a contract high, while both July and August set
New Program Proffered To Improve AgriStability
“It would be a bilateral agreement between the producer and the national government.” – BRYAN FERRISS Aproposed new farm income stabilization program developed for the Manitoba Pork Council is being touted as a solution to chronic problems with existing programs. The insurance-based program would incorporate production costs in the payment formula to help compensate for
Cattle Farms On Landscape Reach Recorded Low
Young Farmers’ Programming Funded STAFF Meetings, workshops and information sharing for young farmers by way of the Canadian Young Farmers’ Forum will get $1.2 million in federal support over the next four years. The federal government on Sunday announced its funding commitment to the CYFF, which Jean-Pierre Blackburn, the federal minister of state for agriculture
Supply Management For Livestock Mulled
“You can do it but it’s really complicated.” – PETER CLARK, TRADE LAWYER The financial crisis in the cattle and hog sectors has some producers uttering two words out loud that they would never previously have whispered in the dark: supply management. The question heard at farm meetings and in coffee shops is: would it
Ontario Tribunal Reinstates Single Desk — Sort Of
“Each party’s presentation was based on its own particular goals rather than an effective structure for the industry.” – FRANCIS HANDY An appeal tribunal has overturned an order ending Ontario Pork’s mandatory single desk for hog marketing – but is also telling farmers they don’t have to use it. The ruling Feb. 16 by the
Canada Beef Exports To Rise Slightly In 2010
Canadian beef exports will increase slightly this year despite the cattle industry’s decline, as exports to Mexico and Asia offset fewer shipments to the United States, a top export official said Feb. 18. Farmers and ranchers have downsized their herds of hogs and cattle to the smallest levels in more than a decade due to
Decline In Stocks Supportive To U. S. Meat Prices
The amount of meat in U. S. warehouses at the end of January was down from a year earlier due to better demand and larger exports, and that should support meat prices in 2010. “Lower stocks across the board for all categories compared to last year shows that we are going to have a tighter
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