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Hogs, Livestock

Pork supply issues hit Maple Leaf’s Q1 ledger

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Reuters — Meat packer Maple Leaf Foods posted a smaller-than-expected quarterly profit as lower prices and a temporary interruption in supplies hurt sales of its pork products, sending its shares to their lowest in nearly two years. The company, one of Canada’s biggest pork processors, said that processed fresh pork sales were affected by a
Guy Baudry, (l to r) HyLife Foods division chief operating officer, HyLife executive chief operating officer Denis Vielfaure, local MP Robert Sopuck, Manitoba Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler, HyLife president Claude Vielfaure, Neepawa Mayor Adrian de Groot, company board chair Don Janzen and CEO Grant Lazaruk cut the ribbon at the newly expanded HyLife Foods plant in Neepawa.
Hogs, Local news

HyLife Foods wraps expansion

It’s been two years coming, but the new cut floor is ready to go at HyLife Foods in Neepawa

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More pork will be running through HyLife Foods in Neepawa in the near future. The company has completed two years’ worth of upgrades, HyLife announced April 3, a move that HyLife president Claude Vielfaure says will lengthen their product’s shelf life and quality as well as doubling space on the cut floor. “An example of
Representatives from Plainview Colony accept the reserve champion award from Ron Kristjansson (r), Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba general manager, during the 2018 Royal Manitoba Winter Fair pork quality competition. The colony took both first and second in this year’s competition.
Hogs, Local news

Plainview Colony brings home the bacon from Royal Manitoba Winter Fair

Organizers say the annual competition was smaller than normal, 
but judges had nothing but good feedback for the entries that were there

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Quantity may have been lacking, but there was no shortage of quality on display at the 2018 Royal Manitoba Winter Fair pork quality competition. Judge Jason Care said the smaller-than-average show was one of the few he has seen where every entry earned warm carcass points. “Most of the shows that I do, I have
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Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle hit two-month low

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures fell on Monday for a third straight session, pressured by fund-driven long liquidation and expectations of rising supplies ahead based on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s most recent monthly cattle report, traders said. Declines on Wall Street added to bearish sentiment. The S+P and Nasdaq
A worker checks sows on a large-scale pig farm owned by the Xinguangan company in Wuxuan county, 
Guangxi province, China, December 14, 2017.
Hogs, International news

GOING BIG: Chinese pork producers supersize

The country is the world’s top pork market, but until recently most of it has been raised on small operations

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Surrounded by mountains in a remote part of southwestern China, Xinguangan’s first large-scale, modern pig farm is getting ready to produce its first offspring. By the end of the year, 10,000 sows will live inside two huge barns on this 73-hectare (180-acre) site, producing up to 280,000 piglets annually, or about 20,000 tonnes of pork.
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Hogs, News

U.S. pork demand strong, but trade disputes could hit exports

Growing U.S. domestic demand will only go so far as the 
U.S. government picks trade fights with key export markets

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American consumers are snapping up plentiful low-cost pork, but U.S. farmers are worried that trade spats with key export markets in China, Mexico and Canada could hurt a lucrative part of their pork business. The domestic demand outlook remains bright, thanks to the strong U.S. economy, upcoming spring grilling season and Easter holiday ham purchases.
Equipment dealers pitch to potential new customers during the 2017 Hog Days in Brandon Dec. 14.
Hogs, Local news

Hog Days celebrated in Brandon

Dec. 14 marked the return of Manitoba’s Hog and Livestock Days, a biennial show highlighting the pork sector

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It was all about the pigs in Brandon. Manitoba’s Hog and Live­stock Days, more commonly known as Hog Days, returned to the Keystone Centre Dec. 14. The biennial show was last held in 2015. The pork-specific trade show was up about 25 exhibitors, bringing participation up to 135 booths. “In two years, a lot of
During times of war, a message of courage
Other, Our History

During times of war, a message of courage

Our History: December 1943

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The image on the front page of our December 15, 1943 issue carried a Christmas message to take courage during the bleak time of the Second World War. Among the news on the front page was that Manitoba’s total Victory Bond sales had reached $99,641,400, just short of the $100-million objective and that the Manitoba
Hogs, Livestock

Manitoba Pork to take harder line on late hog levies

The Manitoba Pork Council hopes a hit to the wallet will convince producers to pay their hog levies on time

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Producers shirking on their hog levies may face a financial penalty in the near future, the Manitoba Pork Council has said. Chair George Matheson says failure to pay fees has been a standing concern with the board, but council efforts to solve the problem have lacked teeth until now. Read more: Development corporation to assist

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