The President of Brumm Swine Consultancy says, to accommodate today’s heavier market weight hogs, pork producers need to be looking at increasing the size of their feeders.
A Tillsonburg, Ontario based swine veterinarian says, while it’s unlikely Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea will be eliminated from Ontario, the virus is containable.
The senior vice president of AgStar Financial Services says, when using risk management strategies in hog production, all of the risk factors need to be considered.
An Ontario veterinarian suggests, as long a livestock producers continue to maintain a high level of animal care and are quick to condemn actions that are inappropriate, they will maintain the public’s trust.
A senior marketing associate with Elanco Animal Health says, as the number of farms producing pigs has fallen and the size of those farms has increased, consumer interest and awareness of the environmental implications of pork production has increased.
The manager of PigTrace Canada is encouraging pork producers to begin preparing now for the introduction of mandatory reporting of swine movements within Canada.
The executive director of Agriculture in the Classroom Manitoba says efforts to incorporate agricultural concepts into the kindergarten to grade 12 curriculum appear to be paying off.
