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The head of Manitoba Pork Council says his group hasn’t pledged to move away from sow stalls after all
Manitoba hog producers should dig in their heels and say no to phasing out gestation stalls. That was the message Rick Berman brought to the Manitoba Pork Council’s annual general meeting last week, in which he urged producers to go on the offensive against “animal rights lunatics.” “Get your head around the fact you’re inSpeakers at Canada Grains Council say too many farmers have forgotten that high prices eventually fall
Watch out! The five-year run of high grain prices is going to end — possibly sooner than later — and those producers who are in denial could be in for a painful reckoning, attendees at the recent Canada Grains Council annual meeting were warned. “There is a lot of optimism out there and a lotThere have been huge crop acreage shifts in the last 15 years, but expert says what happens next is just a guesstimate
Chuck Penner confirmed what most already knew — making price and acreage forecasts isn’t an exact science. “I’m in this business, but I really have to admit that they are really just guesstimates,” the president of LeftField Commodity Research said at the recent Canada Grains Council annual meeting. “When these people make these crop forecasts
