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Needle-Free Injectors Available For Hog Producers

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“It’s fast, quick, easy.” – ROBYN HARTE, MAFRI You no longer require a needle to vaccinate a pig. Manitoba hog producers can now get funding to subsidize the cost of buying needle-less injectors for use in their herds. The money is avai lable under a federal-provincial Growing Forward food safety program. An $800,000 fund will
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China Lifts Canadian Pork Ban

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It may not be Manitoba hog producers’ biggest market, but the resumption of pork exports to China is a positive sign for a beleaguered industry. China last week signalled it would lift a ban on pork and pork products from Manitoba, Alberta and Quebec because of the H1N1 flu virus. China imposed the ban earlier
Hogs, Livestock

Hog Producer Hailed For Philanthropy

The Loewen Foundation and the Steinbach Community Foundation have named Ste. Anne-area hog farmer Marg Rempel as their Philanthropist of the Year. According to a newsletter from the Manitoba Pork Council, the award includes a $2,000 donation to an organization of the recipient’s choice, which Rempel has directed to the Bethesda Foundation, supporting Steinbach’s Bethesda
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Hog Program May Lend Less Than Expected

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“I know the industry is short a billion dollars.” – andrew dickson, mpc Pork producers worry that a federally guaranteed loan program for the financially troubled hog industry may lend only a fraction of the money originally hoped for. Ottawa has set aside $400 million in cash as a reserve to backstop special long-term loans
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Swine Workers Encouraged To Get H1N1 Flu Shot

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“Vaccination of swine workers may reduce the likelihood that H1N1 flu will be introduced into barns.” – DR. WAYNE LEES The Manitoba government is telling people who work directly with pigs to get the H1N1 flu shot. In a recent letter to the Manitoba Pork Council, the province recommended the move, not just to guard
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Province Accused Of Stonewalling Hog Farmers

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– KARL KYNOCH “I would assume that these requests are not being looked at seriously.” The Manitoba government appears to be turning a deaf ear to hog producers’ appeals for emergency aid to help them through their worst economic crisis in memory, the chairman of the Manitoba Pork Council says. The province is stonewalling producers’
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Great Tastes Of Manitoba Now A Hardcover Cookbook

If you’ve enjoyed the “Great Tastes of Manitoba,” the longest running TV cooking show in Manitoba’s history, you’ll love this latest venture – a 20th anniversary hardcover cookbook entitled Great Tastes of Manitoba – Celebrating delicious, local food. This new book features more than 85 recipes, along with stunning photography and local tidbits from the
Hogs, Livestock

Program Backs Purchase Of Needle-Less Injectors

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Manitoba’s On-Farm Food Safety Program now includes an initiative to help livestock producers and related businesses buy needle-less injectors to administer vaccines and medications. The program, funded through the Growing Forward agriculture policy framework, will provide up to $2,000 toward the purchase of a needle-less injector by a Manitoba farm, farm supplier, assembly yard or
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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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Briefs continued – for Nov. 5, 2009

New members: The Manitoba Cattle Enhancement Council (MCEC) has appointed three new members to its council. Barry Todd, deputy minister of Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives is the new chair. Other newcomers include, Charles Gall, of Moosehorn and David Wiens of Grunthal. They join current members Gaylene Dutchyshen, of Gilbert Plains, Albert Todosichuk, of

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