News - Agriculture

Manitoba Agriculture advises that Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation is notifying producers the Hay Disaster Benefit has been triggered and associated payments will begin shortly.

The Chair of the Canadian Pork Council says, as concerns related to animal health escalate in the face of new disease threats, biosecurity will be job one within Canada’s pork sector in 2019.

The Coordinator of the Bruce D. Campbell Farm and Food Discovery Centre says Canada’s agri-food sector started to recognize the need to share the story of food production with consumers.

The Director of Risk Management with h@ms Marketing Services is advising pork producers to take advantage of profitable futures prices by forward contracting a limited portion of their production.

The Research Lead with Agri-Food Economic Systems suggests, African Swine Fever is a potential game changer when it comes to the Canadian pork sector.

Keystone Agricultural Producers welcomes the recent report from the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry about the impacts of climate change and carbon pricing on agriculture.

The Chair of the Canadian Pork Council says Canada’s participation in the Comprehensive Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership was among the highlights of 2018.

The Chair of Manitoba Pork says containing PED and preventing ASF will be top of mind in 2019. As well, animal health will be a key focus in the pork sector during the year.

The Chair of the Saskatchewan Pork Development Board says health challenges continued to stress the pork sector in 2018 and now we’ve got the worries of African Swine Fever.

A Professor of Applied Soil Ecology with the University of Manitoba says the environmental footprint of pork production has been dramatically reduced over the past five decades.