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Barrickman Colony was presented with its first-place cheque for $5,000.

Barrickman Colony wins big at pork quality competition

The annual event capped off the Prairie Livestock Expo in Winnipeg last month 

By Don Norman January 15, 2019

Barrickman Colony of Cartier took the top two spots in the pork quality competition at the Prairie Livestock Expo last month. The contest, the largest in North America, celebrated its 22nd year at the annual livestock event this winter. In the entire history of the competition, this is the first time that one producer took

Hogs, Livestock, News

Another hog stabilization program rejected

By Shannon VanRaes April 11, 2013

The provincial government has refused to back a hog stabilization program proposed by the Manitoba Pork Council to help producers through ongoing financial turbulence. “While the province continues to work with the Manitoba Pork Council on possible solutions, their recent proposal is too much of a financial risk during these uncertain economic times,” the minister

Hogs, Livestock

Is pork industry’s business model broken?

By Bernie Peet October 17, 2012

There is no doubt that, whichever way you look at it, Western Canada is a good place to raise pigs. The combination of abundant space and locally grown feed ingredients provides key elements that are missing in some important pig-producing countries such as Denmark, where manure disposal is a challenge, and China, where a lot

Hogs, Livestock, Livestock Markets, News

Puratone, Big Sky in receivership

By Shannon VanRaes September 22, 2012

Industry observers are worried processors could soon be scrambling for hogs as two of Canada’s largest producers tipped over the financial ledge last week and governments refused to ride to the rescue. “Obviously the challenge that we currently face is producers are exiting the business,” Jason Manness, director of procurement at Maple Leaf Foods said

Hogs, Livestock Markets, Opinion

Hog outlook to get worse before it gets better

By Gavin Maguire September 17, 2012

The recent slump in nearby hog values may only mark the beginning of a season of pain for pork producers. Already-high feed costs look set to keep climbing just as hog values enter their traditional seasonal soft patch, which may place hog production margins under even more pressure. To make matters worse, inventories of pork

Hogs, Livestock, News

Death knell may sound for Canada’s GMO pigs

By Alex Binkley April 15, 2012

Without fresh funding, the animals will be euthanized  and their genetic material put into cold storage

Pigs that might have become the world’s first genetically modified animals approved for human consumption may instead face an untimely end, as key backers of Canada’s “Enviropig” project withdrew their support for the controversial engineered animal. Scientists at the University of Guelph, 90 km west of Toronto, bred the first GMO pig that was developed

Hogs, Livestock

Better Times Ahead For Hog Producers?

By Bernie Peet November 3, 2011

So far this year, Canadian producers have had their best period of profitability in the last five years, a relief for those who survived a four-year period of unprecedented hardship, with low hog prices and high feed costs. With market hogs fetching up to $200 a head and sometimes more during the summer, the only

Hogs, Livestock

Ag Minister Blocks Ontario Pork Ruling For Review

By Dave Bedard March 25, 2010

Ontario’s agriculture minister has intervened against a provincial tribunal’s ruling that allowed hog farmers a “negative option” to sell hogs through a single marketing desk. Provincial legislation gives Agriculture Minister Carol Mitchell the authority to “confirm, vary or rescind” a decision made by her ministry’s appeal tribunal or send it back for a new hearing,

Hogs, Livestock

Ontario Tribunal Reinstates Single Desk — Sort Of

By Dave Bedard February 25, 2010

“Each party’s presentation was based on its own particular goals rather than an effective structure for the industry.” – FRANCIS HANDY An appeal tribunal has overturned an order ending Ontario Pork’s mandatory single desk for hog marketing – but is also telling farmers they don’t have to use it. The ruling Feb. 16 by the

Hogs, Livestock, News, Poultry

East-West Biosecurity Divide

By Jim Romahn October 29, 2009

The federal government seems to be on the verge of announcing money to run an around-the-clock biosecurity centre at West Hawk Lake near the Manitoba-Ontario border. West Hawk has been chosen as the dividing point between Western and Eastern Canada should there be an outbreak of a foreign animal disease. Canadians hope to convince trading

Second Harvest redirecting surplus food to those in need

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U.S. livestock: Cattle futures down, hogs rise

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Second Harvest redirecting surplus food to those in need

U.S. grains: Soy futures top one-week high, US crop outlook limits gains

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures down, hogs rise

Tag Archives Ontario Pork Producers’ Marketing Board

Barrickman Colony wins big at pork quality competition

Another hog stabilization program rejected

Is pork industry’s business model broken?

Puratone, Big Sky in receivership

Hog outlook to get worse before it gets better

Death knell may sound for Canada’s GMO pigs

Better Times Ahead For Hog Producers?

Ag Minister Blocks Ontario Pork Ruling For Review

Ontario Tribunal Reinstates Single Desk — Sort Of

East-West Biosecurity Divide

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