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The Retail Council of Canada’s apparent plan to phase out gestation stalls won’t influence how the Manitoba Pork Council advises its producers
Manitoba Pork Council says a sweeping endorsement of updated sow housing practices, including phasing out gestation stalls by 2022, by the Retail Council of Canada won’t change how its producers raise their animals. “It really changes nothing in our position at all, a whole host of independent retailers, like Tim Hortons and like Walmart havePork prices have risen and if sky-high feed prices come back to earth, then hard-hit producers may get ‘some profit back,’ says the head of the Manitoba Pork Council
Hog producers could see some relief from high feed costs this year, but not in time for summer, says the chair of the Manitoba Pork Council. “All signs are for a record corn acreage to be sown in the U.S. this spring, which could really bring some relief to the feed grain prices this fall,”The head of Manitoba Pork Council says his group hasn’t pledged to move away from sow stalls after all
Manitoba hog producers should dig in their heels and say no to phasing out gestation stalls. That was the message Rick Berman brought to the Manitoba Pork Council’s annual general meeting last week, in which he urged producers to go on the offensive against “animal rights lunatics.” “Get your head around the fact you’re inQuebec-based Olymel becomes the latest major processor to bow to consumer pressure to change how it houses pregnant sows
Another major Canadian pork processor has announced it will ban the use of gestations stalls in the coming years. The Quebec-based Olymel says it will phase out gestation stalls over the next decade. “We’ve been thinking about this for a long time, we’ve been talking to our partners and reading expert opinion,” said Olymel spokesmanManitoba Pork Council and Maple Leaf Foods urge pork producers to switch to needle-less injection system after needle fragments found at Brandon plant
Hog producers are being urged to consider needle-less injection systems following the discovery of needle fragments at Maple Leaf Foods’ Brandon pork plant. “I think we’re going to look at pushing that technology more and more, because the issue of food safety is very important,” said Mark Fynn, an animal care specialist with the Manitoba
