Just when you think you have all the answers, someone changes the questions. That’s true of the rapidly evolving pork business, where keeping up on the latest practices and strategies is a must. To support producers in that effort,...
Farmscape for October 26, 2020
Full Interview 9:55
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By focussing on the nutritional needs of the individual sow, pork producers can reduce costs while maintaining optimum performance.
Saskatchewan Pork Industry Symposium 2020, hosted by Sask Pork, will be held virtually...
Farmscape for October 16, 2020
Full Interview 12:53
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Research conducted by the University of Saskatchewan shows including low cost high fibre feed ingredients in swine rations can reduce the volume of greenhouse gas output attributed to pork production. Researchers...
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Have we finally rounded the corner of what has been one of them most impactful times in a generation? Well, as business thinker Peter Drucker put it, “Trying to predict the future is like trying to...
Jim Long, President and CEO Genesus Genetics
A month ago, the U.S. hog price had crawled up from the low 40’s to reach 57¢ lean a lb. If we had written we expected 53-54% lean hogs to be 76.52¢ lb....
Farmscape for October 2, 2020
Full Interview 18:29
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Research being conducted by the Western College of Veterinary Medicine is shedding new light on the mechanisms that result in the loss of fetuses among sows infected by the virus responsible...
Nitrogen, essential element
Nitrogen, which is abundant in nature in its gaseous form N2, makes up about 78% of the atmosphere. It is an essential element of living matter, it is one of the major components of the amino acids,...
Central exhaust systems are a commonly used ventilation method in pig barns. But how do they work and what are the advantages and disadvantages of these systems? We will elaborate on this in this article.
What is a central exhaust...
Jim Long, President and CEO Genesus Genetics
On Thursday just after the USDA September 1st Hogs and Pigs Report was released, I was talking on the phone discussing the report. After the call, my son Spencer who was near and...
A tax audit may be even less welcome than PEDv, but some audits are better than others. For pork producers, the good kind is an audit of on-farm best management practices conducted in 2017 at 24 farms across Canada....