Manitoba Pork Council reports an excellent response among the province’s pork producers to a research project aimed at identifying the most effective strategies for preventing PRRS outbreaks.
The chair of Manitoba Pork Council suggests research aimed at improving the disease resistance and yields of wheat and barley is key to creating long term solutions for the kind of feed shortages pork producers have faced this year due to drought.
Pork producers in Manitoba are being invited to take part of a PRRS prevalence study.
The chair of Manitoba Pork Council says it’s important that any government involvement in helping pork producers contend with the current downturn in profitability due to high feed costs and low hog prices is non-countervailable.
The chair of Manitoba Pork Council says, in the wake of concerns over feed grain availability this winter due to drought, support is building for changes in government policies that encourage the use of ethanol fuel blends.
The Manitoba Pork Council (MPC) is very pleased with the June 29, 2012, decision by the World Trade Organization (WTO) Appellate Body regarding mandatory Country of Origin Labeling (COOL).
The chair of Manitoba Pork Council says concerns over Canadian subsidy programs and increasing volumes of U.S. pork coming into Canada were among the key issued discussed last week during World Pork Expo.
The Chair of Manitoba Pork Council expects a range of issues to be discussed next week when a delegation representing Manitoba’s pork industry travels to Des Moines, Iowa for World Pork Expo 2012.
Manitoba Pork Council held its Annual General Meeting in Winnipeg on April 4. The event was well attended with approximately 140 people in attendance during the afternoon session.
In response to a shrinking producer base Manitoba Pork Council has completed an overhaul of it’s governance structure.
