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Hog producers want $50 million invested in ASF prevention
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Hog producers want $50 million invested in ASF prevention

Disease outbreak would rapidly outstrip the impact of BSE, Canadian Pork Council says

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Canada’s hog producers are calling on the federal government to invest $50 million over three years to combat African swine fever (ASF). In an open letter released Sept. 11, chair of the Canadian Pork Council Rick Bergmann spells out the impact an outbreak of the disease would have on the industry. The call comes on
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Hogs, Livestock

Swine fever found in Germany putting pork exports at risk

Country had been fencing off borders against wild boar

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Berlin/Hamburg | Reuters — Germany confirmed on Thursday that African swine fever (ASF) had been found in a dead wild boar near its border with Poland, threatening pork exports to China from Europe’s biggest pork producer, which were worth US$1.2 billion last year. Authorities in the German state of Brandenburg quarantined a 15-km area around
“Eventually, sooner rather than later, we’d really like to see a positive income.” Rick Bergmann, Canadian Pork Council.
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Backlog prevention costs pork producers

H@ms Marketing and the Manitoba Pork Council say they’re floating the idea of AgriRecovery, but don’t give much hope that government will pay out

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Aggressive marketing appears to have kept independent hog producers from backing up despite COVID-19 cases piling up at Maple Leaf Foods in Brandon. Contingency measures have come with a cost, however, and those costs have hog sector leaders eyeing potential AgriRecovery funds. Why it matters: Pork tanked earlier this year due to a glut of
File photo of domestic hogs on a German farm.
Hogs, Livestock, Markets

Germany reports first suspected case of African swine fever

German producers currently exporting pork to China

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Berlin | Reuters — Germany’s ministry of food and agriculture said on Wednesday it had a suspected case of African swine fever (ASF) in a wild boar in the eastern state of Brandenburg. The suspected case concerned a wild boar carcass found near the German-Polish border. A sample of the carcass was being taken for
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Hogs, Livestock, Markets

Hog farmers face prolonged pain as pandemic gives way to glut

Canadian Pork Council takes new tack on AgriStability reform

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Winnipeg | Reuters — North America’s hog farmers face prolonged pain beyond the COVID-19 pandemic that has interrupted packing plants , as a pig glut in the U.S. holds prices low and pressures producers to downsize. Many North American hogs had nowhere to go in spring as slaughter plants suspended production due to workers becoming
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Hogs, Livestock

Olymel’s Red Deer plant holds at one COVID case

Pork plant employee's contacts returning to work

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A production line employee at Olymel’s hog slaughter plant at Red Deer, Alta. remains the facility’s lone COVID-19 case after her contacts at the plant tested negative for the virus, the company says. Olymel, the meat packing arm of Quebec ag co-operative Sollio, confirmed the lone COVID-19 case at its Red Deer site on Aug.
Manitoba’s pork sector is now facing the thorny question of where to send animals if Maple Leaf’s Brandon plant can’t stay open.
Hogs, News

Manitoba Pork, stakeholders make contingency plans to relocate hogs

There’s only limited capacity for excess pigs on the Prairies if Maple Leaf’s Brandon plant closes due to COVID-19 cases

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Every effort will be made to find space for hogs if Brandon’s Maple Leaf Foods plant shuts down, says the Manitoba Pork Council. As of August 13, the facility remained open as confirmed cases of COVID-19 among workers climbed over two dozen and many more staff were in self-isolation. About 2,000 people work at the plant, which processes up
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Hogs, Livestock

Brandon pork plant’s exports to China suspended

Chinese protocols call for temporary pause, Maple Leaf says

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New Chinese rules for exporters and a number of COVID-19 cases among its workers have led Maple Leaf Foods to temporarily halt pork traffic to China from its biggest hog plant. The company said Tuesday it has “temporarily suspended pork exports to China on a voluntary basis due to recent protocols adopted by the Chinese
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Hogs, Livestock

Red Deer hog plant books first COVID case

One employee confirmed with virus, 13 isolating as precaution, company says

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A major Prairie hog slaughter and processing plant relatively untouched by the COVID-19 pandemic has marked its first case of the coronavirus in a production line worker. Olymel, the meat packing arm of Quebec ag co-operative Sollio, said an employee who reported for work Monday last week at its Red Deer, Alta. plant began showing

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