News - CPC

The chair of the Canadian Pork Council is encouraging individual pork producers to discuss issues of key importance to their industry with candidates running in the 2015 federal election.

The Canadian Pork Council is making it a priority to educate candidates running in the federal election on the key issues facing Canada’s pork producers.

The Canadian Pork Council reports the prospects of a program designed to reduce the uncertainty that surrounds hedging as a business risk management tool is attracting the interest of lenders.

The president of the Canadian Pork Council says, if there is a Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, Canada needs to be part of it.

The Canadian Pork Council reports about 65 percent of those who ship or receive hogs in Canada are now reporting the movements of those animals to the PigTrace Canada database.

The Canadian Pork Council is encouraging pork producers to consider the many benefits of complying with new regulations requiring the reporting of movements of live hogs.

The Canadian Pork Council says changes to Canada’s Pig Code of Practice will be incorporated into the animal care component of the Canadian pork industry’s on farm food safety program as part of an update of the entire program.

The manager of PigTrace Canada reports the system that will accommodate swine traceability in Canada is now in place and will be ready to start accepting reports of swine movements within the next couple of weeks.

The Canadian Pork Council expects to have a working swine traceability system in operation on a voluntary basis in advance of regulatory changes that will make the reporting of swine movements in Canada mandatory.

The vice chair of the Canadian Pork Council says, to be effective in helping Canada’s pork producers ride out the economic crisis being caused by high feed costs, government programs will need to be adjusted.