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Manitoba Second In Hog Transition Derby

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Manitoba producers have so far received nearly a third of the money from a national hog farm transition program, which reached the halfway point earlier this month. The province has seen 32 successful bids worth nearly $10.5 million from producers pledging to empty their hog barns and get out of the business for at least
Hogs, News

Hog Loan Program Not Working, Producers Say

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“The early indications are that there are definitely problems.” – JURGEN PREUGSCHAS, CPC Anxiety is rising among Canada’s hog producers amid signs that a federally backed loans program for the debt-ravaged industry is not working as planned. A number of producers applying for loans are either being rejected or told not to bother, according to
Hogs, Opinion

Exit Auction A Bid For Failure

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The promise of free market access to American markets without fear of reproach has turned out to be one without profit, and even less access than before. Acouple years ago, I was involved with an experiment to see if farm program money could be auctioned as a mechanism for making program payments. The premise was
Hogs, Livestock

Pork Becoming Traceability Leader

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The pork industry has caught up with other sectors of Canadian agriculture in the development of traceability systems, says Clare Schlegel. “We’re as advanced as any commodity in Canada,” says the Ontario pig farmer and chairman of the Canadian Pork Council’s ID & Traceability Working Committee. The federal and provincial governments have agreed to have
Hogs, News

Hog Transition Program Takes Small First Step

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The first go-around of a government program to help financially troubled hog producers leave the industry has nibbled at the edge of the problem, but not taken a big bite out of it. Seventy-four producers filed successful bids to receive $10 million in return for idling their hog barns under the $75-million Hog Farm Transition
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Home Woes Plague Pork Producers

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“Exports are critical for our industry,” he noted. “Canada represents about 20 per cent of the international trade in pork. Competition from cheap foreign meat and lower domestic consumption is hurting sales of Canadian pork at home but exports have held up despite Russian and Chinese efforts to curb imports, the Commons agriculture committee heard
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Hog Transition Tender Delayed

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“A lot of the barns that take this will never open up again.” – KARL KYNOCH, MPC Hog producers have had to wait an extra week to learn if they qualify for the $75-million Hog Farm Transition Program. The first tender for the federal program was originally scheduled for October 28. But the Canadian Pork
Hogs, News

“Managing Supply” An Option For Battered Hog Farmers

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“The nice thing about managing supply is it actually gives producers the tools to get it (returns) from the marketplace and we don’t keep going back to government with our hands out.” – IAN WISHART Canadian hog farmers should consider managing supplies, as American potato growers do, to avoid excess production and depressed prices, says
Hogs, Livestock

Pork Council Looks For An Action Plan

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“It’s a short period of time (to get organized), but there was a clear message from the summit that we need to follow up on the ideas.” The Canadian Pork Council will establish a steering group to develop a strategy for acting on all the ideas for bettering the sector that were advanced at the
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Early Interest In Hog Transition Program Heavy – for Oct. 8, 2009

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Afederal government program to help hog producers leave the industry could risk running out of money before serving all applicants. The $75 million in the program may not be enough to meet the demand at the rate inquiries are going, said Karl Kynoch, Manitoba Pork Council chairman. The early response to the long-awaited program announced

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