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PED Infected Manitoba Swine Sites Down From 80 to 4

Manitoba Pork reports all but four of the 80 Manitoba swine sites infected during a 2017 Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea outbreak have now reached or are close to reaching a presumptive…

Raised Without Antibiotics Market at Risk of Over Saturation

Dr. Clayton Johnson, the Director of Health Carthage System with Carthage Veterinary Services spoke during the “Raised Without Antibiotics” session during the 2018 Banff Pork Seminar Bruce Cochrane – FarmScape…

Trade Expected to be Among Top Pork Sector Issues in 2018

The past Chair of the Saskatchewan Pork Development Board expects matters related to trade to be one of the major issue in 2018 for Saskatchewan’s pork sector by Bruce Cochrane…

Rabobank Global Animal Protein Outlook 2018: Production Growth Continues, Bringing Increased Competition

Animal protein production is expanding around the world, and increasing competition —between the species for share of consumer wallet and between exporters for access to import destinations— is creating many…

Successful Disease Control Highlights 2017 and Remains Priority in 2018

Retiring Director and Sask Pork past-Chair Florian Possberg says the success of steps taken by the province’s producers and their equipment, and service providers to protect the Saskatchewan swine herd…

Rapid Response Corps to Speed Up Reaction of Emerging Diseases

Dr. Paul Sundberg, the Executive Director of the Swine health Information Centre, told FarmScape Online that the creation of a Rapid Response Corps will speed up the response to emerging…

Manitoba Pork Expands Swine Disease Management Team

Manitoba Pork has expanded its swine health management team in an effort to enhance response to disease threats and created the new position of Manager of Swine Health Programs by…

PEDv Update: 61 Cases Confirmed in Manitoba

After a lull in the PEDv outbreak in southern Manitoba, a second wave of reported cases has generated warnings to UK pork producers by Cam Patterson “We had not had…

The Manitoba PEDv Outbreak: Was Bio-Security Really Working

With forty-one barns infected with PEDv in Southern Manitoba, mine was not the first call Andrew Dickson had taken the morning I called the Manitoba Pork Council office by Cam…

Our November 2024 Issue

In our November 2024 issue we feature FCC’s trend predictions on USA agriculture’s impact on Canada, McDonald’s E.coli crisis, Crowned Ontarios’s finest butcher, Beef industry leaders meeting to face 2025 challenges, Disappointment with Bill C-282, Rising crime in Agriculture, and much more!