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Alberta Checkoff Change Offends Groups

“The cow-calf producer wants to sell high, which I totally respect, but my job is to buy as low as I can. How can one entity represent both interests?” – RICK PASKAL Alberta Beef Producers as well as pork, lamb and potato groups in that province aren’t happy with their government’s plan to make commodity
Cereals, Crops, Hogs, News, Oilseeds

In Brief… – for May. 14, 2009

N calculator online: Anitrogen rate calculator for spring wheat, barley and canola can be downloaded from Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives at http://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/financial/farm/nitro gencalc. html. Users can evaluate different net-return per-acre scenarios involving N source and cost, the expected crop price and soil nitrogen (nitrate-N in pounds per acre to 24 inches deep). Users
Hogs, News

Pork BBQ Draws Parliament Hill Crowd

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Upwards of 2,000 MPs, senators and Parliament Hill staff showed up for a noon hour barbecque in the historic East Block courtyard May 6 in support of the country’s beleaguered pork producers. The Canadian Pork Council was hoping 300 to 400 people would accept the offer of a pork sandwich, veggies and cookies to show
Hogs, News

H1n1 Symptoms In Pigs Similar To Humans

Thai scientists who infected piglets with the new H1N1 virus spreading around the world said May 11 the strain caused flu-like symptoms in the animals before disappearing, just like many of the human cases. An outbreak of the new strain, known as swine flu, that has killed at least 53 people – mainly in Mexico
Hogs, News

Swine Flu Spreads From People To Pigs

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The discovery last weekend of the H1N1 Influenza A flu virus in an Alberta pig herd is the latest blow for Canada’s hog farmers already reeling from a barrage of bad news. The so-called swine flu spreading around the world had already disrupted markets and created a public image problem for pork producers, even though
Hogs, News

In Brief… – for May. 7, 2009

Climate effect: Drier, warmer weather may help curb the swine flu outbreak as the Northern Hemisphere moves into summer and the human flu season nears its end, the World Meteorological Organization says. The United Nations agency said that weather can affect the course of viral epidemics but it was only one piece of the swine
Hogs, News

Swine Flu Won’t Impact Seasonal Labour Program

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“Our guys have better coverage than your average Manitoban.” – TODD GIFFIN, MAYFAIR FARM The Influenza A H1N1 outbreak in Mexico shouldn’t unduly affect Mexican seasonal farm workers coming to Canada under a federal agricultural employment program, officials said. Participants in the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) are pre-screened before leaving Mexico to make sure
Hogs, Opinion

Cause For Concern

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The last thing this province’s struggling hog sector needed was a global pandemic named after swine. Although the origins of the disease outbreak in Mexico have not at this time been traced back to pigs, the paranoia that has grown as it spreads human to human across the globe has been disastrous for the pork
Hogs, Opinion

A Hog Farmer’s Blog

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Swine flu?!????!!!!! Oh my. Can you speak? Swine flu? I cannot think of a worse thing for this thing to be called. They say that since it has nothing to do with pigs, it has no actual effect on the hog industry. Ummm….. Russia has banned the import of pork. The future outlook on pork
Hogs, Livestock

Practical Control Of Sow Feed Costs

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. Many aspects of gilt and sow management affect feed use efficiency and getting these right can help to control sow feed costs, says Andrew Jackson, with

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