News - Maple Leaf

The provincial and federal governments are investing $500,000 in an expansion project that will increase bacon production at Maple Leaf Food’s Winnipeg-based facility by eight million kilograms every year.

A Marketing Rep with h@ms Marketing Services says the construction of new finishing barns in Manitoba would allow more of the weanlings currently being shipped to the United States to be grown and processed in Manitoba.

Over 200 industry stakeholders and government representatives are expected to be on hand next week in Winnipeg when the president of Maple Leaf addresses Manitoba Pork’s 2015 Annual General Meeting.

Hog producers will benefit from research on switching from gestation stalls to loose sow housing as a result of a pilot project underway at a Maple Leaf Foods barn near Steinbach, Manitoba.

The Manager of Maple Leaf Brandon says, in order for the company’s Brandon pork processing plant to reach full double shift capacity it will need access to another 20 thousand hogs per week.

Maple Leaf Foods (Brandon) has started a reduced processing schedule by cutting one day per month, for the next five months.

The director of procurement for western Canada with Maple Leaf is encouraging those who supply the company’s pork plants with live hogs to consider switching to needle-free administration of medications.

The director of risk management with H@MS Marketing Services says the decision by Maple Leaf to allow pork producers to deliver lighter weight hogs its Brandon hog slaughtering plant will make it easier for them to cope with dramatically higher feed costs.

In an effort to help those who supply its processing plants with hogs contend with higher feed costs, Maple Leaf is allowing contracted producers in Manitoba and Saskatchewan the option of reverting back to previous lighter finishing weights.

Maple Leafs Foods is applauding the federal government’s efforts to secure a bilateral free trade agreement with the European Union.