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...
Jim Long, President and CEO Genesus Genetics
Last week we attended the National Pork Industry Conference (NPIC) in Wisconsin. About 900 attendees from the USA. A good cross-section of producers and industry. NPIC event was well organized and the Kalahari...
Farmscape for July 13, 2021
Full Interview 17:45
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The Western College of Veterinary Medicine is exploring the potential for subunit vaccines to protect pigs from Brachyspira associated diarrhea. Brachyspira is a genus of bacteria, several species of which cause...