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Great Tastes Of Manitoba Now A Hardcover Cookbook

November 19, 2009

If you’ve enjoyed the “Great Tastes of Manitoba,” the longest running TV cooking show in Manitoba’s history, you’ll love this latest venture – a 20th anniversary hardcover cookbook entitled Great Tastes of Manitoba – Celebrating delicious, local food. This new book features more than 85 recipes, along with stunning photography and local tidbits from the

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Program Backs Purchase Of Needle-Less Injectors

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 19, 2009

Manitoba’s On-Farm Food Safety Program now includes an initiative to help livestock producers and related businesses buy needle-less injectors to administer vaccines and medications. The program, funded through the Growing Forward agriculture policy framework, will provide up to $2,000 toward the purchase of a needle-less injector by a Manitoba farm, farm supplier, assembly yard or

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Big Sky Files For Creditor Protection: Reports

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 19, 2009

Big Sky Farms, the largest hog production company in Saskatchewan, has applied for creditor protection, according to Saskatchewan media. The Humboldt, Sask. company cited an unprecedented downturn in North America’s markets for pork, Canadian Press said Nov. 11. CBC quoted Big Sky CEO Casey Smit as saying in a news release that “while today’s actions

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Pork Becoming Traceability Leader

By Alex Binkley November 19, 2009

The pork industry has caught up with other sectors of Canadian agriculture in the development of traceability systems, says Clare Schlegel. “We’re as advanced as any commodity in Canada,” says the Ontario pig farmer and chairman of the Canadian Pork Council’s ID & Traceability Working Committee. The federal and provincial governments have agreed to have

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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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Great Tastes Of Manitoba Now A Hardcover Cookbook

Program Backs Purchase Of Needle-Less Injectors

Big Sky Files For Creditor Protection: Reports

Pork Becoming Traceability Leader

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

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