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China Erects Pork Wall At Alberta Border

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Don’t get Grant Lazaruk going about H1N1. And don’t ever let him hear you call it swine flu. The disease and its unfortunate name have been nothing but a headache for Lazaruk’s company Hytek Ltd. and its hog processing plant, Springhill Farms in Neepawa. That’s because Hytek was recently forced to ship pork to China
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U. S. Issues Warning Over Hog Assistance Proposal

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The threat of U. S. trade action has come back to haunt Ottawa as it mulls a recovery program for Canada’s financially devastated hog farmers. American pork producers have given notice they may seek trade retaliation if they perceive a bailout package to be an unfair subsidy. That could plunge Canada’s hog industry into something
Crops, Hogs

Flu Crossed Back From Hogs To Inspectors: Reports

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Two Canadian Food Inspection Agency workers may be the first known cases of pandemic H1N1 influenza crossing from hogs to humans. The CFIA employees, who both have tested positive for the flu strain recently elevated to pandemic status, were working in late April on a quarantined Rocky Mountain House, Alta.-area farm which, at the time,
Hogs, Livestock

High Litter Size Requires New Approach

bernie peet Peet on Pigs 1345 775 13.8 14.0 1.4 1.1 10.0 11.9 11.0 11.4 12.5 12.1 2.47 2.47 18.5 23.4 5.7 4.9 94.6 96.2 31.0 29.9 Breeding herd performance data for two high-performing herds Number of sows in herd Pigs born alive/litter Pigs born dead/litter Pre-wean mortality ( per cent) Pigs weaned/litter weaned Pigs
Hogs, Livestock

Canadian Pork Can Now Be Sold To Russia

MOSCOW/REUTERS Russia said on July 17 it would lift a ban on live pigs and raw pork imports from the U. S. state of Wisconsin and Canada’s Ontario province from July 18 due to what it said was a “stabilization” of the situation of the H1N1 virus in those places. The animal and plant health
Hogs, Livestock

Swine Flu Vaccine Not Tested On New H1N1

A new swine flu vaccine available to protect herds against traditional H1N1 and H3N2 subtypes, has no data available to demonstrate FluSure XP’s efficacy against the newly emerged A H1N1 global virus, Pfizer Animal Health says in a release. FluSure XP is the first swine vaccine to be licensed under new Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Hogs, Livestock

Talks Continue On How To Help Hog Sector: Ritz

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“They know what they have to do. We’ll work with them towards that end.” – GERRY RITZ Federal Minister of Agriculture Gerry Ritz said the federal government is close to disclosing how much help the hog sector will get with its transition plan. Federal officials were having day-by-day discussions with the Canadian Pork Council, Ritz
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Ag Ministers Mull Swine Herd Reduction

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Canada’s agriculture ministers may consider a massive sow cull program in an effort to help save the nation’s struggling hog industry. The cull is part of a three-point industry transition plan which the Canadian Pork Council proposed recently to the federal government. The proposal calls for Ottawa to pay producers $500 per sow, plus the
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Nonpandemic Flu Strain Found In Saskatchewan

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Federal health officials are working with the Saskatchewan government to assess and monitor the public health risk posed by a new strain of influenza that has been detected in that province. The new strain was detected in two workers on a hog farm in Saskatchewan. The workers suffered only mild illness and have recovered fully,
Dairy cattle, Hogs, Livestock

Long-Term Battle Is To Win Consumer Trust

“Our research shows very few conventional producer groups or well-known food brands have a presence in the content that most frequently shows up when consumers search on these food production topics.” bernie peet Peet on Pigs Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain Consulting Ltd. of Lacombe, Alberta, and editor of Wes tern Hog Journal.

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