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Canadian Pork Product Exports Expected To Decline

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The amount of pork products exported from Canada is expected to decline come calendar year 2011, according to an official with the Canadian Pork Council, or CPC. “We’ve had about four or five shocks to our industry in the last five years, that includes the high Canadian dollar, for a while high feed prices due
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Leftover Hog Transition Funds Distributed

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Money remaining from the federal government’s hog farm transition program (HFTP) is headed to at least some producers who failed to make the cut during the program’s fourth tender. The HFTP, budgeted for $75 million when established in late 2009, aimed to help eligible pork producers leave the industry by paying them to idle production
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COOL Case Finally Underway At WTO

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“I don’t think they have any legal grounds to stand on.” – John Masswohl, Cca Canada’s long-delayed trade challenge to the U. S. country-of-origin labelling rule is finally ready to roll. The World Trade Organization last week named a three-person panel to rule on whether COOL violates international trade law. Canada and Mexico have launched
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U. S. Pork Exports To China Resume

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Increased U. S. pork exports to China aren’t a threat to Canadian pork producers, according to Jacques Pomerleau, the executive director at Canadian Pork International. “Not at all,” said Pomerleau. “Because it’s a huge market. When we were both having higher volumes it had no impact, one on the other. If it were a small
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Manitoba Eyes Alberta Hog Plan

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“We would expect the Manitoba government to do the same thing.” – ANDREW DICKSON, MPC Manitoba pork producers are carefully watching a proposed hog price insurance program in Alberta to see how it plays out. If it goes into effect and if it works, producers will demand the Manitoba government implement a similar model. “If
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Swine Traceability Gets Financial Boost

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The Canadian pork industry is on track to meet a 2011 deadline for a national livestock traceability system, thanks in part to a $3.3-million federal cash injection. The money is part of a $15-million industry package announced by Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz at a news conference last week. The program will also spend $9.5 million
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Pork Promotion In Canada To Get Funding Boost

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“The feds have assured us that they will fast track it.” – JURGEN PREUGSCHAS, CPC Canada could soon start collecting a new levy on imported cuts of fresh pork to help promote its own pork industry. The Canadian Pork Council is drafting a levy proposal to send to federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz sometime this
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Loan Guarantee Program Helps Only A Few Producers

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“We do hear from farmers on both sides of that.” – IAN WISHART, KAP Canadian pork producers are calling a federally backed industry assistance program a flop after the government ended up spending just two-thirds of the money it originally committed. Ottawa put up only $270 million of the $400 million in federal loan guarantees
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Transition Program Removes Nearly A Million Pigs

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“You’re bidding the price down to what the lowest will accept.” – LES MCEWAN A$75-million program to help Canadian hog farmers exit the industry has ended up removing 800,000 pigs, including 10 per cent of the national sow herd. The Hog Farm Transition Program eliminated just over 131,000 sows, as well as nearly 250,000 weanling
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Animal Welfare Activists Target Pig Castration

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– Robyn Harte, MAFRI “It’s a recognized common practice in most of the world.” An animal welfare coalition is trying to end the practice of castrating male piglets by asking grocery stores in Canada to carry pork from intact pigs. “We politely ask you to take action and meet with your suppliers to discuss our

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