Two employees of HyLife sow farms in La Broquerie, Man. have won the F. X. Aherne Prize for Innovative Pork Production at the 2023 Banff Pork Seminar (BPS).
Robert Lafrenière and Barak Doell developed what they have called the "HyLife...
Company partnering with Mercy Chefs to provide restaurant-quality meals for disaster victims, volunteers and first responders
Smithfield Foods, Inc. is has donated 35,000 pounds of food, equal to 140,000 servings, to help feed victims of the severe winter weather that recently...
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The Canadian Pork Council’s (CPC) Board of Directors has named a new board chair and anew vice-chair as part of the organization’s first steps into the New Year.
At a board meeting in Banff, Alberta, on the eve of this...
Hog prices in China will fluctuate across a smaller range in 2023, Wan Jinsong, the director of the price department at the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), said at a press briefing in Beijing on Thursday.
The Commission will...
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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said barring JBS from government contracts could hurt taxpayers because the company has so few competitors.
Tom Vilsack’s letter illustrates how the government’s options have...
Farmscape for January 11, 2023
Full Interview 11:45
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An independent economic analysis shows swine cluster research is boosting productivity in the Canadian pork sector. An independent economic assessment conducted on behalf of Swine Innovation Porc which looked at...
A large portion of pork products at the grocery store are bland, resulting in disappointed customers and flat lined sales. We need to produce and market better tasting pork. With improvements to flavor, a 15% across the board pork...
SDSU Extension will help swine producers, transporters and handlers update their Pork Quality Assurance (PQA) Plus and Transportation Quality Assurance (TQA) training at the South Dakota Pork Producers Congress in Sioux Falls on Jan. 11, 2023.
The TQA training is...
Farmscape for January 10, 2023
Full Interview 8:24
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The Executive Director of the Swine Health Information Center suggests the development of an effective commercially producible vaccine that can be differentiated will be a key part of any effort...