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Hog Transition Program Takes Small First Step

By Ron Friesen November 12, 2009

The first go-around of a government program to help financially troubled hog producers leave the industry has nibbled at the edge of the problem, but not taken a big bite out of it. Seventy-four producers filed successful bids to receive $10 million in return for idling their hog barns under the $75-million Hog Farm Transition

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Maple Leaf To Conduct Hog Loading Site Inspections

By Ron Friesen November 12, 2009

Maple Leaf Meats is increasing its surveillance of loading practices for hogs shipped to the company’s slaughter plant at Brandon. Maple Leaf will conduct assessments at loading sites in Manitoba between now and December 2010, a company official said. Sixteen farms randomly selected from Maple Leaf’s hog operation network will undergo loading assessments to ensure

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Home Woes Plague Pork Producers

By Alex Binkley November 12, 2009

“Exports are critical for our industry,” he noted. “Canada represents about 20 per cent of the international trade in pork. Competition from cheap foreign meat and lower domestic consumption is hurting sales of Canadian pork at home but exports have held up despite Russian and Chinese efforts to curb imports, the Commons agriculture committee heard

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Pig DNA Mapped: May Help With Breeding, Vaccines

November 12, 2009

An international team of researchers said Nov. 2 it had mapped the DNA of a domestic pig, work they say that could help lead to better breeding techniques as well as improve vaccines against diseases such as swine flu. They plan to look for genes useful in pork production and immunity in pigs, which are

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Pandemic H1N1 Hits Commercial U. S. Herd

November 12, 2009

The pandemic H1N1 influenza virus has been found for the first time in a commercial swine herd, the U. S. Agriculture Department said Nov. 2. The sick herd was found in Indiana, the USDA said, noting both the pigs and their caretakers have fully recovered from the virus, commonly called swine flu. USDA said the

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Paradigm Shift Needed For Beleaguered Hog Industry

By Ron Friesen November 12, 2009

For the past two years, Perry Mohr encouraged financially battered hog producers attending the Manitoba Pork Marketing Co-op’s fall district meetings to hang in there – things would be better by spring. And this year? “It’s one of the possible outcomes,” was all the co-op’s CEO would say. Mohr is nothing, if not a realist.

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Financially Strapped Hog Farmers Seeking Tax Relief

By Ron Friesen November 5, 2009

Manitoba’s financially stressed hog farmers are asking the provincial government for tax relief as barns shut down and producers leave the industry at an accelerating rate. The Manitoba Pork Council wants the province to waive municipal taxes on hog barns this year, saying many producers just can’t afford to pay. MPC made its appeal in

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Hog Transition Tender Delayed

By Ron Friesen November 5, 2009

“A lot of the barns that take this will never open up again.” – KARL KYNOCH, MPC Hog producers have had to wait an extra week to learn if they qualify for the $75-million Hog Farm Transition Program. The first tender for the federal program was originally scheduled for October 28. But the Canadian Pork

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Briefs continued – for Nov. 5, 2009

November 5, 2009

New members: The Manitoba Cattle Enhancement Council (MCEC) has appointed three new members to its council. Barry Todd, deputy minister of Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives is the new chair. Other newcomers include, Charles Gall, of Moosehorn and David Wiens of Grunthal. They join current members Gaylene Dutchyshen, of Gilbert Plains, Albert Todosichuk, of

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Hog Feed Additive Approved For Variable Dose

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 5, 2009

Elanco Canada has gained approval for what it describes as a more flexible range of doses for its swine feed additive Paylean. Paylean was already approved for doses of five parts per million (ppm) to improve hogs’ weight gain and feed efficiency, and 10 ppm for increased carcass leanness and dressing per cent. The new

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Hog Transition Program Takes Small First Step

Maple Leaf To Conduct Hog Loading Site Inspections

Home Woes Plague Pork Producers

Pig DNA Mapped: May Help With Breeding, Vaccines

Pandemic H1N1 Hits Commercial U. S. Herd

Paradigm Shift Needed For Beleaguered Hog Industry

Financially Strapped Hog Farmers Seeking Tax Relief

Hog Transition Tender Delayed

Briefs continued – for Nov. 5, 2009

Hog Feed Additive Approved For Variable Dose

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