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Public rallies around loose sow

Within hours the sow had been named and a rescue fundraiser started

Pigs were in the Winnipeg headlines last week over the fate of a sow that had fallen off a livestock truck and was found roaming near Winnipeg’s south perimeter. Manitoba Pork says staff, representatives from the Office of the Chief Veterinarian of Manitoba, and the Winnipeg Police Service contained the animal and loaded it onto

Small Hog Producers Get Manure Storage Break

Manitoba hog producers have received over $26 million to help small operators convert to large manure storages in advance of a 2013 ban on winter spreading. The money from Ottawa and the province will cover 75 per cent of a producer’s construction costs to a maximum $250,000. Ottawa funds 60 per cent of the three-year


Production Insurance For Hogs Coming This Fall

Pork producers will have the opportunity to purchase production insurance as early as fall 2011, Manitoba Pork general manager Andrew Dickson announced at the 25th Manitoba Swine Seminar. Production insurance has been a long-term goal of the organization, he said. “All we are asking for in the livestock industry is can we get some sort

COOL Chill Continues For Pork Industry

U.S. country-of-origin labelling laws continue to put a chill on the Manitoba pork industry, the general manager for Manitoba Pork told the Manitoba Swine Seminar. “COOL is a big deal,” Andrew Dickson said. “We had hoped that the export of weanlings into the United States would have tapered off; it is not indicated this has