What actually worked for these Prairie pig farmers when it came time to swap gestation stalls in their barns for group sow housing? What were the results?
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Real farm talk on switching to open sow housing
What actually worked for these Prairie pig farmers when it came time to swap out gestation stalls in their barns for group sow housing systems? What were the results?
Get the best air in your hog barn
Farmers who pay more attention to ventilation, humidity, air pressure and temperature in the hog barn can get pigs gaining weight faster and keep them comfortable
Farmers who pay more attention to ventilation, humidity, air pressure and temperature in the hog barn can get pigs gaining weight faster and keep them comfortable
Precision pig feeding lowers farm cost, greenhouse gas emissions
Customizing pig diets for each animal reduces the farmer’s feed cost, boosts hog growth and bolsters the pork sector’s environmental track record
A customized diet for each pig reduces the farmer’s feed cost, boosts hog growth and bolsters the pork sector’s environmental track record.
Canadian farms at risk from animal activism
A legal expert warns that growing animal rights activism is creating complex challenges for Canadian livestock farmers
A legal expert warns that growing animal rights activism is creating complex challenges for Canadian farmers, despite livestock industry groups spending considerable effort on their public trust files.
Barn temperature for hogs about more than just air
Contact surfaces also impact pig thermal condition
To a pig, heat is about more than air temperature. Unfortunately, many hog producers don’t realize that. “We have to think about all the other surfaces in the barn that the pig can be in contact with for conduction, or just exposed to,” said North Carolina State University swine specialist Suzanne Leonard. For instance, barns might need
Internal dispute over privilege, bullying allegations ties up C-234
New amendment to farm fuel bill now under debate
A proposed amendment, and a dispute over senatorial behaviour, further geared down progress Tuesday of a federal private member’s bill to carve out a carbon tax exemption for grain drying and heating of barns and greenhouses. Bill C-234, which passed the House of Commons in late March, remained on the Senate’s order paper for debate
Anti-activist bill back before Commons committee
Bill adds protections for biosecurity, farmers' mental health, Barlow says
A bill to create harsher penalties for unlawful entry onto farms and biosecure zones is back before the House of Commons after a previous iteration died on the order table in 2021. Conservative MP John Barlow brought forward Bill C-275, “an Act to amend the Health of Animals Act (biosecurity on farms),” as a private
Farrowing heat pad firm to bring hog cooling pads to market
Manitoba's IHT to offer new system next spring
A Winnipeg-area company providing heating pad and lighting systems for hog barns is set to add a U.S.-developed line of hog cooling pads to its product lineup. IHT (Innovative Heating Technologies) Group announced Thursday it will make and sell a line of water-cooled pads that use a patented system designed at Purdue University in Indiana,
Farm groups push for Bill C-234 passage
Ag groups concerned that carbon tax exemption bill won’t clear Senate before break
Prairie farm groups are pushing the Senate to prioritize a bill that would exempt propane and natural gas for grain drying and barn heating from carbon tax. In a joint statement June 13, Keystone Agricultural Producers, the Alberta Federation of Agriculture and the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan urged the Senate to pass Bill C-234
Carbon price exemption for farm gas clears Commons
Bill C-234 next headed to Senate
Legislative amendments that would exempt farmers’ eligible purchases of natural gas and propane from federal carbon pricing are now en route to Canada’s Senate. Bill C-234, a private member’s bill sponsored by Ben Lobb, the Conservative MP for the southern Ontario riding of Huron-Bruce, passed third reading for adoption in the House of Commons on
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