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High compound feed cost hits pig farmers

May 17, 2012

amsterdam / reuters Europe’s pig farmers are struggling to maintain production, caught between a slide in pork prices and a rise in the cost of protein-rich soymeal and rapemeal used in compound feed. The price of soymeal has surged nearly 40 per cent this year. Along with rapemeal it is used as the main source

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Maple Leaf Gives West Face CEO A Seat On Board

By Rod Nickel February 10, 2011

Maple Leaf Foods appointed the head of investment fund West Face Capital to its board Feb. 3, bringing in a leading activist shareholder who has been critical of corporate governance at the Canadian food processor. West Face chief executive Gregory Boland joins the board six months after the Torontobased investment fund took a stake in

Hogs, Livestock

Pork Seminar Offers Tips For Success

By Meristem Release January 27, 2011

The big market factors may be largely beyond their control, but pork producers can apply fresh thinking to build a stronger economic future. New precision- farming approaches, using advocacy more effectively and dramatically modifying financing approaches are all key options, say speakers at the Banff Pork Seminar. The numbers tell the story of an industry

Hogs, News

In Brief… – for Dec. 23, 2010

By Reuters December 23, 2010

Strikes doused:Collective bargaining disputes involving unionized part-time rural firefighters would be settled by binding arbitration and no work stoppages would be permitted under proposed legislation introduced this month by Labour and Immigration Minister Jennifer Howard. “This legislation will ensure that all unionized firefighters are treated the same and that work stoppages don’t affect public safety

Cereals, Opinion

Don’t Blame Ethanol For Hog Industry Woes

By Les Mcewan September 10, 2009

Feed grain prices in Western Canada are not wholly dependent on the supply and demand in Western Canada. The dog days of summer are upon us, and with the last remnants of the small-town fairs still in the air, we’re left with fond memories of the circus clowns and second-rate magicians. Disappearing people, never-ending hankies,

Livestock, Other livestock

Ont. Backs Abattoir In Northwest

July 30, 2009

The Ontario government will put up another $500,000 toward a new multi-species abattoir for the province’s northwestern Rainy River district. The investment, flowing through the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corp. (NOHFC), will bring provincial support for the non-profit, community-owned abattoir project to $1 million, the province said July 21. The facility will be at a

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

Tag Archives meat-processing

High compound feed cost hits pig farmers

Maple Leaf Gives West Face CEO A Seat On Board

Pork Seminar Offers Tips For Success

In Brief… – for Dec. 23, 2010

Don’t Blame Ethanol For Hog Industry Woes

Ont. Backs Abattoir In Northwest

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