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Licensing program promises domestic wash stations: Manitoba Pork

The Manitoba Pork Council wants trucks washed in Canada, and it looks like it’s going to get its wish

By Alexis Stockford December 1, 2017

Empty swine trucks crossing over the border may be washed in Manitoba in 2018, a move sure to please the Manitoba Pork Council. MPC has lobbied the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to seal trucks at the border and wash them at a certified station in province. “They seem to be warming up to it,” MPC

Hogs, Livestock

Canadian pork cleared for Argentina

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 29, 2017

Argentina is now ready to import Canadian pork for the first time in about 15 years, federal officials report. Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay and Trade Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne announced Wednesday that access to the Argentinian market has been restored for Canadian pork effective “immediately.” Canadian pork processors had started shipping to Argentina in 1998,

Beef cattle, Hogs

Russia to restrict Brazilian pork, beef imports from Dec. 1

By GFM Network News, Polina Devitt November 20, 2017

Moscow/Brasilia | Reuters – Russia will place temporary restrictions on imports of pork and beef products from Brazil from Dec. 1, the country’s agricultural safety watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor said on Monday. Russia said last week it was considering a ban on all pork and beef imports from Brazil after finding the feed additive ractopamine in some

Japan’s Imperial Palace and Nijubashi Bridge, in Tokyo. (CIA.gov)

Markets

TPP talks without U.S. near final stretch

By GFM Network News, Reuters November 1, 2017

Urayasu, Japan | Reuters — The 11 remaining nations in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) without the United States edged toward sealing a comprehensive free trade pact after New Zealand agreed to amend laws that are not subject to TPP, to enable its ban on foreign home purchases. The pact aims to eliminate tariffs on industrial

Hogs, Livestock, Pulses

Maple Leaf Q3 profit beats on overall sales growth

By GFM Network News, Reuters October 27, 2017

Reuters — Maple Leaf Foods, one of Canada’s biggest pork processors, posted a quarterly profit that beat analysts’ estimates, helped by growth across all its businesses. The company, whose brands include Schneiders, Maple Leaf and, since March, Lightlife, said adjusted operating earnings rose to $65.15 million in the third quarter from $61.52 million a year

Stephen and Vicki Yanyk are third-generation farmers.

Country Crossroads, Hogs

‘Farm fresh’ is Oakburn couple’s slogan

Steve’s Farm Fresh Pork offers a variety of products to area consumers

By Darrell Nesbitt October 17, 2017

Encouraging strong roots for a better food and agriculture system for all, a young Oakburn couple operating a third-generation family farm, has diversified their operation by offering 100 per cent fresh pork from the farm gate. Steve’s Farm Fresh Pork, owned and operated by Stephen and Vicki Yanyk, offers a variety of products to Oakburn-area

Chef Jonathan Collins cuts up a pork leg, foot included, to prepare ginger and black vinegar hog trotters in a video for Canada Pork International. (Video screengrab from CanadaPork.com)

Hogs, Livestock

Mexico considers pork in response to NAFTA produce proposal

By David Alire Garcia, GFM Network News September 15, 2017

Mexico City | Reuters — Mexican negotiators are working on a response to informal U.S. proposals to include protections for fresh produce in the re-negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), two people briefed on the proposals said. U.S., Canadian and Mexican delegations finished a second round of talks last week to renegotiate

Hogs, Livestock

Pork industry acting quickly on ractopamine finding in China

By Alex Binkley July 19, 2017

Pork groups and the Canadian Meat Council are working together to avoid any disruption to exports to China in the wake of a residue complaint from that country. China says it has found traces of the growth promoter ractopamine in a shipment of pigs’ feet. “Canadian Pork International, Canadian Pork Council and the Canadian Meat

Six buffer zones have been identified since the PEDv outbreak began in early May.

Hogs, Local news

Manitoba Pork turns to producer-based program to stem PEDv outbreak

Manitoba Pork is hanging its hopes for combating PEDv on a newly launched disease response program

By Alexis Stockford July 6, 2017

Manitoba’s PEDv outbreak is still in full force, but the industry hopes a new initiative to connect producers will help combat the spread. This has already become the worst year on record for the virus with over four times as many cases reported as in the previous three years combined. The Manitoba Coordinated Disease Response

Hogs, News

Pork sector calls for washing station changes

Manitoba Pork argues a return to domestic wash stations will allow greater control over variables that might contribute to the spread of PEDv

By Alexis Stockford June 22, 2017

Manitoba Pork wants to see the return of Canadian-based wash stations for hog transport trailers coming back from the United States. If implemented, it would be an echo of a 2014 pilot project, one of several emergency measures by the pork sector following the first Canadian outbreaks. News of the virus’s spread to Canada in

Daily Network News

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Licensing program promises domestic wash stations: Manitoba Pork

Canadian pork cleared for Argentina

Russia to restrict Brazilian pork, beef imports from Dec. 1

TPP talks without U.S. near final stretch

Maple Leaf Q3 profit beats on overall sales growth

‘Farm fresh’ is Oakburn couple’s slogan

Mexico considers pork in response to NAFTA produce proposal

Pork industry acting quickly on ractopamine finding in China

Manitoba Pork turns to producer-based program to stem PEDv outbreak

Pork sector calls for washing station changes

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