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Livestock Sector Could Fold, CFA Head Warns

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“I think that beef and pork are at risk in this country.” – LAURENT PELLERIN, CFA Canada’s beleaguered livestock producers could go the way of the fishing industry unless Ottawa moves quickly to save it, warns the Canadian Federation of Agriculture’s president. The hog and cattle sectors may end up looking like the collapsed East
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Hog Loan Applications Lagging

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Afederally backed loan program to help Canada’s hog producers recover from a severe financial crisis is receiving less response than expected. According to Farm Credit Canada, lending institutions have so far approved 73 loans for $269 million, with a federal reserve fund covering $159 million of that. FCC is the biggest single lender, approving 43
Hogs, Livestock

Australians Look To Offset Their High Cost Of Feed Grains

Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain Consulting Ltd. of Lacombe, Alberta, and editor of Western Hog Journal. His columns will run every second week in the Manitoba Co-operator. “The new varieties offer grain growers the potential to increase energy yields per hectare by 20 to 25 per cent and for pork producers to reduce
Cereals, Hogs, Livestock

Bernie Peet Peet On Pigs

With relatively high feed costs compared to major pig-producing regions like North America and Brazil, the Australian pork industry has recently been placing strong emphasis on making better use of feed ingredients and increasing the efficiency of nutrient utilization. Addressing delegates at the Banff Pork Seminar, Dr. Roger Campbell, CEO of the Australian Pork Co-operative
Crops, Hogs

U. S. Pork Stocks At Three-Year Low

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The total supply of pork in U. S. warehouses fell to its lowest end-of-December level for the past three years, but demand may slow as higher prices confront buyers. Much of the lighter-than-expected frozen supply was attributed to improved exports. “This is a three-year low, the lowest since the end of December 2006,” said Rich
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Pork Sector Assesses H1N1 Damage

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“H1N1 has been another poster child for active, ongoing risk management.” If there was any lingering doubt of the huge economic and psychological blow dealt to the pork industry in the wake of H1N1 influenza, it was quickly erased for those attending the Banff Pork Seminar, a leading seminar for the pork industry held annually
Hogs, Livestock

Joint Hog-Marketing Venture In Gear

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Anew joint marketing service for Manitoba and Saskatchewan hog producers is up and running. Manitoba Pork Marketing Co-op and SPI Marketing Group have formed a new company to act as a one-stop service centre for hog farmers in both provinces. It began operating Jan. 1. The new entity, called h@ms marketing services, is expected to
Hogs, Livestock

Christmas Donation Expands To Year-Round Giving

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Despite living through some of the worst times in memory, pork producers in southeastern Manitoba have dramatically increased their support to their local food bank. Last year, they donated $1,000 to the Helping Hands food bank. This year, the district’s producers have volunteered to donate at least one kilogram of pork for every food bank
Hogs, Livestock

Manitoba Second In Hog Transition Derby

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Manitoba producers have so far received nearly a third of the money from a national hog farm transition program, which reached the halfway point earlier this month. The province has seen 32 successful bids worth nearly $10.5 million from producers pledging to empty their hog barns and get out of the business for at least

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