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Depression Seminars Draw Small Audiences

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“People don’t want to be perceived to be associated with depression.” – GERRY FRIESEN Poor attendance at two recent rural workshops on depression emphasizes the need to explode taboos about openly discussing mental illness, organizers say. Fewer than a dozen people in each case attended public meetings in Morris and Arborg last week to talk
Hogs, Livestock

Manure-Processing Projects Approved For Funding

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A hog manure lagoon and a combined hog/ chicken manure lagoon will be used in the project. Test projects to separate useful fertilizer out of liquid manure and to compost solids will get underway this spring with public and producer funding. Hog producer Hytek plans to assess a manure treatment system that separates out crop
Hogs, News

Hog Industry Weighs Seeking More Exit Help

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Canada’s hog sector is weighing the risks and benefits of asking Ottawa for more funds to help money-losing farmers cease production, industry officials said Feb. 25. Only one out of three farmer applications to the current $75-million government buyout pool has been successful. Hog farmers have suffered from years of low prices, the reduction of
Hogs, News

New Program Proffered To Improve AgriStability

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“It would be a bilateral agreement between the producer and the national government.” – BRYAN FERRISS Aproposed new farm income stabilization program developed for the Manitoba Pork Council is being touted as a solution to chronic problems with existing programs. The insurance-based program would incorporate production costs in the payment formula to help compensate for
Hogs, News

AgriStability Plus In The Works

The Manitoba Pork Council is seeking producer feedback on a proposed companion top-up program to AgriStability. AgriStability Plus is based on a full cost-of-production model of the farm instead of being margin based. As a companion to AgriStability, it would be an insurance-based program. Producers would be responsible for the full cost of premiums but
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Canada Hog, Cattle Herds Shrinking Fast

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“Nothing is going to change until we can stimulate demand.” – SCOTT MCKINNON Canada’s hog and cat-t le herds shrunk to their smallest levels in more than a decade as the livestock industry reels from rising costs and export barriers, Statistics Canada said Feb. 16. The country’s hog herd fell 4.5 per cent year over
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Hog Loan Applications Lagging

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Afederally backed loan program to help Canada’s hog producers recover from a severe financial crisis is receiving less response than expected. According to Farm Credit Canada, lending institutions have so far approved 73 loans for $269 million, with a federal reserve fund covering $159 million of that. FCC is the biggest single lender, approving 43
Hogs, Livestock

Christmas Donation Expands To Year-Round Giving

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Despite living through some of the worst times in memory, pork producers in southeastern Manitoba have dramatically increased their support to their local food bank. Last year, they donated $1,000 to the Helping Hands food bank. This year, the district’s producers have volunteered to donate at least one kilogram of pork for every food bank
Hogs, Livestock

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
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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

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