News - Sask Pork

The Chair of Sask Pork says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s continued refusal to change regulations that are increasing the risk bringing PED into Canada is frustrating.

The chair of the Saskatchewan Pork Development Board says western Canada needs to produce larger numbers of hogs to help the processing plants in the region move closer to capacity and improve their competitiveness with plants in the United States.

The Chair of the Saskatchewan Pork Development Board says there’s a strong desire among western Canada’s pork processing plants to be able to access increased numbers of slaughter hogs from Saskatchewan.

The manager of industry and policy analysis with Sask Pork is encouraging grain growers to consider the use of swine manure to cut their fertilizer costs.

Provincial pork associations in western Canada are preparing to move to the next phase of the Canadian Truck Wash Facility Registration Pilot Project.

As part of a collaborative research effort scientists are looking to automate the washing and disinfecting of livestock trucks and trailers to speed up the process and reduce costs.

The manager of producer services with Sask Pork reports audits of truck wash facilities in Saskatchewan are showing they’re doing a better than expected job of cleaning and disinfecting the trucks and trailers that move hogs.

The chair of the Saskatchewan Pork Development Board expects a dramatic slide in the value of live hogs since November to curtail any plans to increase North American pork production in 2015.

The general manager of Sask Pork is confident automating the washing and disinfecting of the trucks that haul livestock will improve biosecurity while cutting costs and speeding up the process.

The chair of Sask Pork remains hopeful expanded trade deals will help maintain profitability within the North American pork industry during the coming year.