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Biosecurity is among the daily defences pushed within the industry against diseases like African swine fever.
Hogs, Livestock

The financial chink in Canada’s African swine fever armour

Industry says ‘Day 1’ farmer compensation mechanisms need to be more robust

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If African swine fever (ASF) arrives in Canada, a lot of things will happen. Response plans will be implemented. Quarantines will be imposed and animal movements locked down. Biosecurity will ramp up to crisis levels. Information and updates will flow between federal and provincial chief veterinary offices and the industry. Further from ground zero, zoning
If a person can get into the barn, so can a virus or bacteria.
Hogs, News

Load out risky time for hog farm

Load out can open door for infection in a barn

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Glacier FarmMedia – What if the truck driver asks to enter the hog barn to use the bathroom? Does the operation have a protocol for that? That’s a question asked of Dr. Julia Keenliside at the Manitoba Swine Seminar. “Everybody’s got to work out what your procedures are, because that happens,” said Keenliside, an Edmonton-based
Close up of a pig behind a metal fence
Hogs, News

Hong Kong to cull pigs due to African swine fever

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Reuters – Hong Kong has ordered a pig cull after confirming its second case of African swine fever in a month.  The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department on Nov. 23 said it planned to cull around 1,900 pigs from one herd on Nov. 25 after the virus was discovered at a pig farm.  The licensed
(Gloria Solano-Aguilar photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Hogs, Livestock

PigTrace tag prices go up Dec. 15

Program costs 'unsustainable' without price increase

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One of the prices producers pay for hog traceability will be going up 10 per cent. The Manitoba Pork Council said in a notice to producers Wednesday that the Canadian Pork Council will apply a 10 per cent increase to the prices of PigTrace ear tags and accessories, effective Dec. 15. Table: PigTrace ear tag
Manitoba ships millions of weanlings into the U.S. each year.
Hogs, News

Manitoba Pork pushes for VCOOL prep 

Manitoba Pork wants retaliatory tariffs locked and loaded if VCOOL goes ahead

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Manitoba Pork will support retaliatory tariffs if the U.S. goes ahead with its voluntary country of origin labeling scheme, producers heard at a recent meeting. “It’s my view that if the U.S. moves ahead with these changes, Canada will have the right to impose those retaliatory tariffs … We are again requesting the government of Canada to fight back,” said Cam Dahl, general manager
“There’s not a day that goes by that we don’t hear about inflation or the rising cost of food.” – Susan Riese, Manitoba Pork Council.
Hogs, News

Pork sees growing goodwill in province

More Manitobans reported positive opinions about pork and pork production in annual sector survey

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The reputation of Manitoba’s pork industry was in a good place around this time last year. Results from a public survey conducted last December and shared at the Manitoba Pork Council’s eastern producer meeting Nov. 8 showed year-over-year growth in public goodwill compared to a similar survey conducted in 2021. Of Manitobans surveyed in December
Hogs are pictured before being examined at a disinfection station in Chongqing, China, in January 2019.
Markets, News

Few improvements expected in Chinese hog market

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Reuters – Farmers in the world’s top pork market have lost money for most of this year due to low prices and high feed costs, and the trend is likely to continue. China’s pig production is still growing, a farm ministry official said Oct. 23, and a higher-than-normal number of breeding sows is set to
U.S. consumer demand for pork is waning and Canadian producers should respond to reduced slaughter numbers, suggests the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service.
Hogs, News

USDA projects Canadian swine reduction

Manitoba industry expects capacity to grow despite USDA numbers

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The U.S. agriculture department expects fewer Canadian pigs to be produced next year. It projects that the Canadian swine herd will contract in 2024, due in part to decreased domestic processing capacity and reduced U.S. demand, according to a Sept. 24 release from the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service office in Ottawa. FAS estimated total supply of just under 42 million head in
Mapping the changes behind Manitoba’s decades-long hog boom.
Hogs, News

For its size, Manitoba’s pork sector is an overachiever. Here’s how it happened

How NAFTA, the end of the Crow Rate and the end of single-desk marketing shaped the sector, and what got lost along the way

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Ian Smith’s hog farm hasn’t changed much since his family began raising pigs in the late 1960s. It has no pit system. Smith scrapes the pens and spreads straw twice a day. His 10 to 15 sows spend time outside. On his 160 acres near Argyle in Manitoba’s Interlake, he raises his own barley and

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