The chair of Manitoba Pork says, despite record profits in 2014, the number of hogs produced within Manitoba, is still about a million hogs per year short of what the province’s packing plants need to maintain peak performance.
Producers will benefit from increased access to a local processing facility with a government investment of more than $4.5 million to Maple Leaf Inc. to upgrade its Manitoba processing facilities.
Manitoba’s pork producers are applauding a restructuring plan that will see Maple Leaf Foods invest 560 million dollars to upgrade and expand its value added processing capacity.
Maple Leaf Consumer Foods is encouraging pork producers who ship hogs to its processing plants to consider the adoption of needle-free technology for the administration of vaccines and medications to swine.
DGH Engineering suggests it will take a combination of economic incentives to encourage the adoption of anaerobic digestion for processing livestock manure in Canada.
Officials with Donald’s Fine Foods report the response among Saskatchewan swine industry stakeholders to its planned re-opening of an idled Moose Jaw pork processing plant has been extremely positive.
The owners of Thunder Creek Pork report renovations to the Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan based pork processing plant remain on track for a late December 2010 opening.
The Saskatchewan Pork Development Board is applauding news of the sale and planned re-opening of the Moose Jaw Pork Packers pork processing facility at Moose Jaw.
The new owners of the Moose Jaw Pork Packers pork processing facility at Moose Jaw hope to have the idled plant back in operation and slaughtering its first hogs by the end of this year.
The chair of Manitoba Pork Council is blaming U.S. Mandatory Country of Origin Labelling for the planned closure of John Morrell’s Sioux City, Iowa hog processing plant.
