The Manager of PigTrace Canada reports data submitted to the PigTrace Canada database on swine movements has proved useful in resolving food safety issues as well as in helping to track Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea.
Steve’s Livestock Transport out of Blumenort, Manitoba, says it’s complying with new requirements for swine transport vehicles returning from U.S. farms to be washed in the United States while continuing to lobby for reinstatement of a program that allowed washing at Canadian facilities.
Steve’s Livestock Transport says new CFIA requirements for Canadian Swine transports to be washed in the U.S. before returning to Canada will add up to a million dollars per year to it’s cost of washing and disinfecting swine transport trailers.
As farmers begin seeding this season, Keystone Agricultural Producers ask the public to use caution when approaching farm equipment on the roadways around your communities.
The Director of Risk Management with h@ms Marketing Services says the increasing value of the Canadian dollar is the biggest factor affecting the profitability of Canadian pork producers right now.
Canada’s dairy farmers are benefiting from growing demand for various specialty products, but will have to continue to modernize and innovate to remain competitive, according to J.P. Gervais, Farm Credit Canada’s chief agricultural economist.
The Canada Research Chair in Microbiology of Nutrigenomics says research in the swine industry aimed at improving the health of pigs by improving the health of beneficial microbes in the gut offers applications for human health.
The Animal Nutrition Association of Canada says the elimination of Table-4 of the Feeds Act will allow feed formulators to customize livestock rations while also safeguarding the environment.
Farmers at Keystone Agricultural Producers advisory council meeting this past week called for the province to address flooding on Lake Manitoba and in the Assiniboine River Valley – both situations caused by the same problem.
The Director of Risk Management with h@ms Marketing Services reports the typical spring rally in live hog prices has been slow to happen this year.
