—Western Producer reporter Ed White reports this week from the World Pork Expo in Des Moines, Iowa.
Glacier FarmMedia—The World Pork Expo is chock-a-block with Canadian innovators, manufacturers and service providers.
Wherever you turn here, you run into a Canuck.
In one corner of the huge trade show you find Farm Health Guardian, which is based in Guelph, Ontario and Omaha, Nebraska.
A little way along you’ll find Crystal Spring, which manufactures cutting-edge sow stalls, feeding systems and other barn technology south of Winnipeg.
Maximus, a Quebec-based innovator in electronic sow feeding systems, has a big space across from Farm Health Guardian.
The guys from FeedFlo, a Winnipeg-based ag-tech provider of feed pipe monitoring systems, are challenging Expo-goers to outguess their system on the weight of a bucket of feed.
No matter where you turn, you find Canadian producers, with contingents from Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec milling about, chatting with farmer friends and checking out new products they might want to put in their operations.
All this Canadian content is a big reason Canada’s Agriculture Minister, Lawrence MacAulay, is here today at the World Pork Expo.
He’s coming to the show this afternoon and hosting a reception tonight at the World Food Prize centre.
We’ll post a story, some photos and video from the minister’s visit, so check back here to see what he said and did.
