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Hogs, News

Hog Aid Package Lacks Detail

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Hog farmers are reacting cautiously to a government aid package that promises to help their struggling industry but is short on detail. The three-pronged program includes strategies for producers to leave the industry, long-term government-guaranteed loans to help others continue, and a market development program for pork exports. Producers wonder exactly how the program will
Cereals, Hogs, News

In Brief… – for Aug. 20, 2009

Be slap happy: August 20 is World Mosquito Day – a day set aside to raise awareness of the importance of mosquito control. “Mosquitoes cause more human suffering than any other organism, and afflict not only humans, but animals as well,” the American Mosquito Control Association says in a release. The annual event was originated
Hogs, Opinion

What Were They Thinking?

JOHN MORRISS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Responding to last Saturday’s federal plan to cut hog numbers, one producer made the point that cutting Canadian production wasn’t going to make much difference to the price as long as there were no cuts in the U. S. Regardless of the merits or otherwise of the program, he’s right. But
Hogs, Livestock

Canadian Hog-Farming Veterans Selling Out

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Canada’s hog industry faces its biggest crisis in 60 years, forcing many farmers to cut their losses by selling their herds – if they can sell them at all. The industry is reeling from high feed prices, a buoyant Canadian dollar, smaller exports to the United States and a disastrous association with the H1N1 flu
Hogs, News

Ag Ministers Mull Swine Herd Reduction

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Canada’s agriculture ministers may consider a massive sow cull program in an effort to help save the nation’s struggling hog industry. The cull is part of a three-point industry transition plan which the Canadian Pork Council proposed recently to the federal government. The proposal calls for Ottawa to pay producers $500 per sow, plus the
Hogs, Livestock

Hog Producers Want Pork Profit-Sharing

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“A fundamental restructuring of our industry with shared accounting across the supply chain is imperative.” – JURGEN PREUGSCHAS, CPC CHAIRMAN Hog producers want a share of the money which other industry players – processors, food manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers – make from selling pork. The Canadian Pork Council is calling for a way to pass
Hogs, News

Pork Industry’s Chickens Come Home To Roost

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One by one, hog farmers trooped to the microphone, struggling with a balky sound system to tell stories of financial ruin and to appeal for government aid. “At least give us some dignity to retire after working for 45 years,” Menno Bergen pleaded with a speakers’ panel of politicians and industry officials. Bergen put his
Hogs, Livestock, Opinion

Now What?

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Capacity of the Morris hall hosting the June 22 hog rally: 1,500 Number of Manitoba farms raising pigs in 2008: 910 Number of farms raising pigs in 2001: 1,710. Number of farms raising pigs in 1971: 14,200. Number of potential hog industry investors attending the government reception launching the Manitoba Pork Advantage, November, 1996: 600
Hogs, Opinion

Letters – for Jun. 18, 2009

Fresh air good for animals too The article “Berkshire freerange hogs” by Daniel Winters Manitoba Co-operator May 28, brought back some nice memories. After growing up on a farm in the 1940s, I can relate to what the McDonalds are accomplishing. It’s been quite awhile since I first attended school, yet I remember the teacher
Hogs, News

Ottawa Considers Hog Options

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The federal government may consider stretching the parameters of its farm safety net programs to help a hog industry in financial free fall, but industry hopes of a billion-dollar bailout package are fading. “They’ll stretch the programs as much as they can in terms of interpretation,” said Andrew Dickson, Manitoba Pork Council general manager. But

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