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...
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...
Farmscape for July 23, 2021
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SHIC/AASV PRRS-114 Webinar 1:16:56
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Dr. Paul Yeske 11:12
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PRRS-1-4-4-ZOOM-webinar
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A swine practitioner with Swine Vet Center says the PRRS 1-4-4 variant has had a much more...
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...
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...
Donald's Fine Foods, owner of Thunder Creek Pork, is retrofitting the old beef plant for a pork processing facility.
The company took out a $12.7 million building permit for work on the shuttered beef plant on 24th Avenue Northwest.
The plant...
Farmscape for July 9, 2021
Full Interview 11:17
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Research underway at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine aims to allow swine producers to increase the inclusion of pea starch in rations without increasing the incidence of gastric ulcers. An...
Farmscape for July 2, 2021
Full Interview 9:22
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An economist with Farm Credit Canada says, despite the prospects of higher feed costs and rising interest rates there is room cautious optimism within the pork sector. As the Canadian economy...
The transition from balanced to sustainable breeding is underway. While this concept is overarching for our entire swine breeding program, there are also key components that relate specifically to the different products in our portfolio. The Hypor Magnus not...
Farmscape for June 18, 2021
Full Interview 11:41
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An Associate Professor with the Western College of Veterinary Medicine is encouraging pork producers to apply the lessons learned from the COVID pandemic to the prevention of Influenza on the farm....