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Five more cases of PED confirmed as of June 1

CVO and Manitoba Pork working to trace back source of virus

By Lorraine Stevenson June 8, 2018

The hog sector remains on high alert following more confirmed cases of the deadly PED in barns in southeastern Manitoba. Six cases of PED have now been confirmed as of June 1. The first case was confirmed in a finisher barn May 15. As of the end of last week, the virus has been found

Proposed changes would give municipalities more say over development decisions.

Livestock, Local news

Province proposes changes to approval process for livestock operations

Bill 19 is ‘a balanced approach’ that will reduce red tape for municipalities,  says Municipal Relations Minister Jeff Wharton

By Lorraine Stevenson March 29, 2018

A bill introduced in the Manitoba legislature March 19 will make it easier for livestock producers to rebuild or renovate existing barns. Bill 19, The Planning Amendment Act (Improving Efficiency in Planning) proposes changes to how livestock operations are approved by municipalities, and other matters related to zoning bylaws and appeals. Under the bill, owners

Hogs, Local news

Bill 24 to allow new hog barns

A diverse group of individuals and organizations spend two nights making the case for and against the hog industry

By Shannon VanRaes November 2, 2017

Untreated manure is good for the soil, anaerobic digesters are ineffective, hogs will poison Lake Winnipeg, farm expansion has ignored Treaty Land Entitlements and immigration relies on the pork industry. Those are just a sampling of the varied opinions heard by an all-party committee of the provincial legislature last week during two days of public

Jenelle Hamblin will be tackling disease response in Manitoba as the Manitoba Pork Council’s new swine health program manager.

Hogs, Livestock

Swine health hire highlights disease management

PEDv has highlighted the need to take a proactive approach to swine health issues

By Alexis Stockford October 30, 2017

When Jenelle Hamblin agreed to join Manitoba Pork a couple of months back, she always knew it would be trial by fire. She was joining the organization as its swine health program manager in the midst of an outbreak of the porcine disease PEDv, a situation that’s roiled the pork sector throughout North America in

Hogs, Livestock

Prairie pork industry leader Bill Vaags, 82

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff September 14, 2017

UPDATED, Sept. 15 — A memorial service is planned for Sept. 19 in Winnipeg for a prominent Prairie figure in the business of promoting and securing export markets for Canadian pork. Bill Vaags, a pork producer at Dugald, Man. who led the Canadian Pork Council from 1985 to 1990 and chaired Canada Pork International from

Hogs, Livestock

PED cases fan out in southeastern Manitoba

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 31, 2017

Three more farms in southeastern Manitoba have been confirmed with cases of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) — all of them outside the buffer area in which six previous infected sites were confirmed earlier this month. Two farms, a sow operation and a finisher operation “linked by live pig movements,” were confirmed with PED Friday, followed

Hogs, Livestock

Path of Manitoba PED infections tough to track

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 26, 2017

Officials investigating a recent spate of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) cases in southeastern Manitoba hog barns aren’t yet seeing a clear picture of how the virus is spreading from site to site. The province’s chief veterinary officer on Thursday confirmed positive tests for PED at a finisher operation in the same area as five previous

Local news

Farm building code streamlined

The provincial government says the move is part of its red tape reduction initiative

By Ron Friesen February 7, 2017

The Manitoba government has begun a new anti-red tape initiative by streamlining the provincial building code for farm structures. The Manitoba Farm Building Code will be repealed and dovetailed into the Manitoba Building Code, with specific provisions for farm buildings. It’s the first action in a government campaign to eliminate or simplify regulatory requirements that

Our History

Have you hugged your cow today?

Our History: December 1998

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 8, 2016

The just-completed merger of Manitoba and Alberta Pools into Agricore took up much of our Dec. 3, 1998 issue. That included what became a somewhat controversial “Farming is everything” advertising campaign, that included the new grain company’s double-page spread of a farmer hugging a dairy calf. The issue had an interview with Agricore CEO Gordon

(Regis Lefebure photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Hogs, Livestock

CFIA to continue PEDv hog trailer policy until May

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 24, 2015

Emergency federal protocols that have allowed empty hog trucks coming into Manitoba from the U.S. to be cleaned and disinfected on the Manitoba side of the border will now continue until May. In a producer newsletter Thursday, Manitoba Pork chair George Matheson said the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, which had previously planned to end the

Daily Network News

B.C. ostriches culled, CFIA confirms

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs end week on high note

U.S. grains: Soybeans bounce as Chinese demand assessed, wheat drops

Tag Archives Manitoba Pork

Five more cases of PED confirmed as of June 1

Province proposes changes to approval process for livestock operations

Bill 24 to allow new hog barns

Swine health hire highlights disease management

Prairie pork industry leader Bill Vaags, 82

PED cases fan out in southeastern Manitoba

Path of Manitoba PED infections tough to track

Farm building code streamlined

Have you hugged your cow today?

CFIA to continue PEDv hog trailer policy until May

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