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Federal candidates need to understand the challenges facing today’s hog industry

Market access, labour and financing issues threaten to undermine its future

By Rick Bergmann October 6, 2015

Over 7,000 pig farms in Canada produce 25.52 million animals a year and generate over $13 billion in economic activity, making the country’s swine industry the fourth-largest source of farm cash receipts of any agricultural commodity. In 2014, over 1.14 million tonnes of pork and pork products valued at over $3.7 billion were exported to

Hogs, Opinion

Editorial: Pork sector making progress

By Laura Rance-Unger September 21, 2015

A recent survey suggests the Manitoba pork sector is making incremental but important gains in repairing its relationship with the general public. A survey of 1,000 households conducted by Probe Research recently found 56 per cent favoured loosening the restrictions the Manitoba government has placed on new barn construction. Thirty-two per cent favoured leaving those

Crops, News

Should farmers pay for protection against grain company defaults?

The Canadian Grain Commission has proposed setting up a security fund paid for by grain companies,  but Rob Brunel says Ontario’s farmer-funded model has merit

By Allan Dawson January 6, 2015

Rob Brunel knows farmers aren’t keen on more checkoffs, but the Ste. Rose du Lac farmer believes that’s the best way to replace the Canadian Grain Commission’s (CGC) current security program. “My preference has been to set up something like Ontario has,” the chair of Keystone Agricultural Producers’ (KAP) Grains and Oilseeds Committee said in

Hogs, Livestock

KAP leaders asked to be more vocal on livestock issues

Issues ebb and flow but producers like to know their organizations  are paying attention to their concerns

By Allan Dawson April 25, 2014

Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) leaders have been asked to pay more attention to problems facing Manitoba’s livestock producers. “I’d like to see KAP try to create more awareness in the future when it comes to livestock issues and at least mention it more often,” George Matheson, Manitoba Pork Council’s KAP representative, said during KAP’s general

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, News, Other livestock

Smithfield Foods third-quarter results beat Wall Street estimates

March 16, 2013

reuters / Smithfield Foods Inc., the largest U.S. hog producer, reported third-quarter results that beat Wall Street estimates, helped by higher sales of packaged meat products such as Smithfield bacon and Eckrich and Armour sausages. The company, which receives nearly half of its revenue from packaged meat, said higher demand from international markets, particularly from

Hogs, Livestock, News

Smithfield board to review advice from big shareholder

March 16, 2013

reuters / Smithfield Foods Inc. said March 8 it would review a letter from shareholder Continental Grain Co., which is urging the top U.S. hog producer to consider steps such as splitting into three units and initiating a regular cash dividend. Shares of Smithfield rose 3.3 per cent to $25.50 in pre-market trading. Smithfield said

Hogs, Livestock

Smithfield says it will meet China’s deadline on pork

By Theopolis Waters February 28, 2013

China wants third-party verification that imports are free of the additive that promotes lean muscle growth

Smithfield Foods Inc., the world’s largest pork processor, said Feb. 21 it will be able to supply pork that is free of the feed additive ractopamine in time to meet a March 1 deadline by China. China, the world’s largest pork consumer and the third-largest market for U.S. pork with sales of over $800 million

Crops, Hogs, News

Grain commission considering expanding security program to feed mills

By Allan Dawson February 6, 2013

The Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) is considering whether it can expand its proposed new insurance-based payment security program to non-licensed buyers such as feed mills. “We at the commission have had some discussions about it and we’re looking at it,” CGC commissioner Murdoch MacKay told reporters after speaking at the Keystone Agricultural Producers’ (KAP) annual

Hogs, Livestock, Livestock Markets, News

Manitoba’s independent hog farmers will disappear

By Allan Dawson November 9, 2012

Producer George Matheson says they need $10 more a hog from  processors otherwise only vertical integrators will survive

Manitoba’s independent hog farmers, including the Hutterite Brethren, won’t survive unless Canadian processors boost prices $10 a hog, says George Matheson, a Stonewall hog producer. “To be quite frank, I think the independent (hog) producer in this country is dying a slow death,” he told the Keystone Agricultural Producers’ General Council meeting Oct. 25. Matheson,

Hogs, Livestock, News

MAFRI offered assistance

By Shannon VanRaes October 10, 2012

An Austin-area hog producer turned down assistance from Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI) in the lead up to the eventual euthanization of 1,300 young hogs. “We had discussed options with this producer about other steps he could have taken,” said Dr. Wayne Lees, Manitoba’s chief veterinarian. “We offered assistance.” But that offer of

Daily Network News

China holds off on soybean purchases due to high Brazil premiums, traders say

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U.S. grains: Corn gains on firm cash markets, big crush supports soybeans

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