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Canada Meat, Grain Sectors Eye EU Trade

By Rod Nickel June 11, 2009

Canada’s agriculture industry is eyeing free trade talks with the European Union as a rare chance to open a big high-income market. But for the beef sector, a major production shift may also be at stake. The Canadian beef industry has taken hits in recent years from low prices and prohibitive U. S. food-labelling laws,

Hogs, Livestock, Opinion

Dying Hog Industry Asks For A Billion

By Paul Beingessner June 4, 2009

It might not make me very popular in some circles, but the imminent demise of the hog industry in Canada leaves me kind of cold. Oh, I’m as worried as anyone about the job losses in communities that rely on hog barns for local jobs. But the industry itself isn’t one that I brood over.

Hogs, News

Ag Spending Debate A Chippy One

By Alex Binkley June 4, 2009

Other than in the disjoined repartee of question period, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, like his predecessors, is rarely called to account in the Commons for the spending programs and priorities of his department. That usually happens at the agriculture committee, which receives little attention from the mainstream news media on Parliament Hill. But on May

Hogs, News

U. S. Processors Defiant On COOL

By Ron Friesen May 28, 2009

“It depends on how the political winds blow in terms of how strong he’ll try to push it.” – JURGEN PREUGSCHAS, CPC U. S. food companies are refusing to follow a federal government request to increase country-of-origin labelling (COOL) measures on meat, in a possible showdown with the Obama administration. A recent Canadian delegation to

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Environmental Regulations Squeeze Spanish Hog Farmers

By Daniel Winters May 21, 2009

“It was a successful model. It seemed like everybody was winning.” – VICTORIA SOLDEVILA Large-scale hog farming worked wonders for the Catalonian economy – for a while. Economically depressed for decades by a long civil war and later the rule of fascist dictator Francisco Franco, the Spanish autonomous territory bordered by France on one side

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Pork Council Raises Funds For Hungry

By Manitoba Pork Council May 21, 2009

Manitoba Pork Council (MPC) is pleased to present Food Cycle 2009, a major fundraising event with Winnipeg Harvest and the Manitoba Association of Food Banks. Harvest supporter and cyclist Ken Livingstone will cycle the winding route of the Trans Canada Trail from the Manitoba-Saskatchewan border through rural Manitoba and Winnipeg to the Manitoba-Ontario border. Food

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New Virus Could Still Mutate, Spark Pandemic

May 21, 2009

“This is clearly different than what we see from seasonal influenza” The new H1N1 flu virus could still mutate into a more virulent form and spark an influenza pandemic that could be expected to circle the globe up to three times, the World Health Organization said May 12. The impact of any pandemic would vary,

Hogs, Livestock

Smithfield’s Outlook Improves

By Bob Burgdorfer May 21, 2009

Smithfield Foods Inc. said May 13 it should meet its fiscal 2009 fourth-quarter debt covenants and appears to be on track to comply with fiscal 2010 covenants. It also said pork exports are recovering after being disrupted recently when countries banned the meat as a precaution against the H1N1 strain of flu. Speaking at the

Hogs, Livestock

Extended Swine Cull Program Accepting Forms

May 14, 2009

The extended national cull breeding swine program will begin taking applications from eligible hog producers as of May 7. The extended federal program, delivered by the Canadian Pork Council, goes further back to include breeding swine culled between Aug. 1 and Oct. 31, 2007. That’s on top of any breeding swine covered under the original

Hogs, Livestock

Hog Industry Fights Against Swine Flu Backlash

By Ron Friesen May 14, 2009

“Importers from other countries are really nervous about buying right now.” – JURGEN PREUGSCHAS, CPC Canadians are being urged to eat more pork as the hog industry mounts a publicity drive against a backlash from the H1N1 Influenza A virus that has become known as swine flu. The Canadian Pork Council and its marketing arm

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Hogs

Canada Meat, Grain Sectors Eye EU Trade

Dying Hog Industry Asks For A Billion

Ag Spending Debate A Chippy One

U. S. Processors Defiant On COOL

Environmental Regulations Squeeze Spanish Hog Farmers

Pork Council Raises Funds For Hungry

New Virus Could Still Mutate, Spark Pandemic

Smithfield’s Outlook Improves

Extended Swine Cull Program Accepting Forms

Hog Industry Fights Against Swine Flu Backlash

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