News - Production

Winnipeg based Finer Feeds is encouraging a greater awareness of the positive aspects of swine production in western Canada.

Manitoba Pork Council is assuring Japanese buyers of pork that, despite reductions in Canadian hog production, Japan remains a high priority market that will continue to be well served.

An agricultural economist with the University of Missouri estimates the U.S. hog industry has reduced production by about half the amount necessary to stimulate a rebound in live hog prices.