News - Manitoba Pork

The chair of Manitoba Pork says addressing swine health issues and rebuilding Manitoba’s swine production infrastructure will be among the provincial pork industry’s main focuses is 2015.

Manitoba Pork Reports this year’s Christmas pork promotion was highly successful in drawing attention to the wide range of pork recipes that are available through the consumer side of the Manitoba Pork website.

Manitoba Pork Reports this year’s 12 Days of Christmas pork pack giveaway dramatically increased traffic to its website.

The general manager of Manitoba Pork says implementation of the Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement comes as particularly good news to Manitoba.

The general manager of Manitoba Pork is encouraging pork producers who attend Prairie Livestock Expo next week in Winnipeg to maintain their focus on biosecurity.

The chair of Manitoba Pork says pork producers on both sides of the Canada U.S. border and U.S. pork processing plants continue to suffer from the effects of U.S, Mandatory Country of Origin Labelling.

The general manager of Manitoba Pork is urging the U.S. government to consider alternative options to COOL for providing product information to consumers.

A manure sampling project underway in Manitoba is helping to paint a clearer picture of the PEDv status of the province’s hog farms.

In the wake of two new on-farm cases of PED Manitoba Pork is encouraging the province’s pork producers to take steps to close any gaps in biosecurity that may exist.

The chair of Manitoba Pork is calling on the province’s business community to apply pressure on their local MLAs to rethink provincial government policies that have led to a dramatic reduction in the volumes of hogs produced for processing.