HyLife’s new 47,462-square-foot headquarters in Steinbach, Man.

HyLife opens new Steinbach headquarters

Local dignitaries and HyLife Foods leaders cut the ribbon Aug. 25

HyLife celebrated the grand opening of its new, nearly 50,000-square-foot headquarters in Steinbach on Aug. 25. “This is more than a building; it is a new home and anchor for HyLife that we hope will become a community landmark,” said Grant Lazaruk, HyLife’s president and CEO, in an Aug. 28 news release. “After several years

"We are feeling the
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decisions that were
made in 2020, and we’ll
continue to do so until
we see a new normal
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Meat industry hits hard times

Inflation, high interest rates and high input costs are catching up to sector

The meat industry, particularly pork, is facing tough times as inflation catches up with demand. There’s been a torrent of bad news in the meat sector in the last two months. Tyson Foods reported its first quarterly loss since 2009; HyLife’s processing plant in Windom, Minn., declared bankruptcy; Smithfield Foods is closing 40 sow farms


HyLife’s segmented weaning ramp is designed for efficient work flow, but more importantly, less back-breaking work.

Weaning ramps for piglets gain traction

Almost all HyLife hog barns have put their names in for the invention

[UPDATED; Feb. 10, 2022] It started with a request from the staff at one of the many hog barns associated with HyLife Foods. Weaning piglets was hard on the back: bend down, pick up a 12-pound piglet, vaccinate it, bend to put it down again, this time sorted by sex. Rinse and repeat hundreds of

(ComfreyFarmPork.com)

HyLife buys pork packing, hog production capacity

Firm buys stake in U.S. packer, Manitoba hog farming business

Canadian hog production and pork processing firm HyLife has moved to expand its reach in North American pork packing as well as Manitoba hog farming. La Broquerie, Man.-based HyLife announced last week it has bought a 75 per cent stake in Taylor Corp.’s Prime Pork, a packing and processing operation at Windom, Minnesota, about 200

Editorial: Hands up!

As someone who just turned 50 this past winter, I have no personal memories of the Great Grain Robbery of the summer of 1972, only what I’ve heard and read. The tongue-in-cheek name references the Great Train Robbery nine years earlier, when a Royal Mail train from Glasgow to London was relieved of 2.6 million


HyLife Foods staff work in the recently expanded integrated pork-processing plant in Neepawa.

HyLife to hand over to Thai conglomerate

Over half of HyLife Foods stock will belong to Thai-based conglomerate CPF once the deal closes

Manitoba pork giant HyLife Foods will soon have someone else calling the shots. The company announced a deal with Thailand-based exporter Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited (CPF) for 50.1 of the company’s stock April 22. The $498-million deal adds HyLife to the conglomerate’s list of companies, which span 17 countries and include hogs, chickens,

CPF’s purchase of HyLife aims to improve its product portfolio for the Chinese market and expand its U.S. presence.  Photo: Thinkstock

Thai CPF to acquire Canadian pork producer HyLife for $372 million

Bangkok | Reuters – Charoen Pokphand Foods Pcl (CPF), Thailand’s largest agriculture conglomerate, said on Monday it would acquire Canadian pork producer HyLife Investments for C$498 million ($372.7 million) to expand its North American business. The acquisition would make CPF a 50.1 percent owner of HyLife, with the remainder held by its Japanese partner, Itochu

Premier Brian Pallister announces up to $9.5 million in TIF support for Hylife Ltd. in Neepawa Sept. 14.

Province promises up to $9.5 million in tax rebates for Hylife expansion

Hylife Ltd. will recoup some of the new tax generated from its recent expansions

Hylife Ltd. has joined the companies expecting to get a financial boost from their own tax revenue. The province announced Sept. 14 that the pork giant will join the companies and projects singled out for TIF, or tax increment financing. Governments most commonly turn to TIF to jump-start economic development and private sector investment by


Guy Baudry, (l to r) HyLife Foods division chief operating officer, HyLife executive chief operating officer Denis Vielfaure, local MP Robert Sopuck, Manitoba Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler, HyLife president Claude Vielfaure, Neepawa Mayor Adrian de Groot, company board chair Don Janzen and CEO Grant Lazaruk cut the ribbon at the newly expanded HyLife Foods plant in Neepawa.

HyLife Foods wraps expansion

It’s been two years coming, but the new cut floor is ready to go at HyLife Foods in Neepawa

More pork will be running through HyLife Foods in Neepawa in the near future. The company has completed two years’ worth of upgrades, HyLife announced April 3, a move that HyLife president Claude Vielfaure says will lengthen their product’s shelf life and quality as well as doubling space on the cut floor. “An example of

(HylifeFoods.com)

HyLife co-founder Paul Vielfaure, 59

Funeral arrangements are pending for one of the founding brothers behind Prairie hog production and pork processing firm HyLife. Paul Vielfaure died suddenly Nov. 23 at age 59, his family reported in a brief obituary in Winnipeg and Steinbach newspapers this week. Radio-Canada reported Tuesday that Vielfaure had died in Phoenix, Arizona. While Vielfaure was