Farmscape for August 6, 2021
Full Interview 5:13
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Demonstration projects underway in the major pork producing provinces are highlighting the use of enrichments in swine barns.
A series of Swine Innovation Porc demonstration projects being overseen by the Prairie Swine...
Maple Leaf Foods Inc. ("Maple Leaf Foods" or the "Company") (TSX: MFI) today reported its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2021.
"As we anticipated, our second quarter faced material market headwinds and a difficult year-over-year comparable...
Jim Long, President and CEO Genesus Genetics
U.S. Slaughter Numbers Keep Low
This past week U.S. slaughter numbers came in 210,000 head less than a year ago. The fourth week in a row that U.S. slaughter has been considerably lower year...
Farmscape for August 3, 2021
Full Interview 9:23
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A Saskatchewan pork producer says the driest conditions in the province since 1988 will challenge cattle and hog farmers securing feed for this coming winter. Concerns over the exceptionally dry conditions...
Not that long ago, a group of US veterinary diagnosticians recognized the potential of being able to analyse “Big Data”. In this case the big data was the information generated from thousands of samples from diverse populations of animals...
Farmscape for July 28, 2021
Full Interview 19:29
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Researchers working on behalf of Swine Innovation Porc hope to have a clearer idea by this fall of how long stored manure from PED infected farms remains infective. From 2017 to...
Jim Long, President and CEO Genesus Genetics
Some Observations:
Weighted Average National lean price stays strong at $1.07 a lb.
U.S. Pork cut-outs last Friday closed at $1.22 indicating strong demand.
Hog slaughter, surprise surprise, seems to be running lower...
Agosto1 , M.; Corletti1 , G.; Fernandez2 , S.; Boix3 , O.
*Corresponding author (oriol.boix@hipra.com)
1 SuperPorco S.R.L., 2 Hipra Argentina, S.A., 3 HIPRA, Amer (Girona) Spain.
INTRODUCTION
One of the most common problems faced in the field is the increase in sow...
Today, the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, and the Member of Parliament for Vaudreuil–Soulanges, Peter Schiefke, highlighted an investment of up to $5 million that helped CBCo Alliance increase capacity at its new hog processing...
Farmscape for July 21, 2021
Full Interview 17:45
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A Professor with the Western College of Veterinary Medicine says, if they can be shown to be effective, subunit vaccines offer the potential to provide a cheap and efficient means of...