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Pork Producers Encouraged to Identify Necessary Changes in the Proposed Updated Pig Code of Practice
Farmscape for June 18, 2013 Full Interview 5:12 Listen Manitoba Pork Council is encouraging pork producers to familiarize themselves with proposed changes to the Canadian Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Pigs and identify any adjustments they... (Continue reading)
Canada Counts on U.S. Interests to Press for Resolution of Country of Origin Labelling Issue
Written on 17 Jun, 2013 at 5:25 in Canada East Swine News, Canada West Swine News, Swine News | Comments
Farmscape for June 17, 2013 Gerry Ritz Statement 7:47 Listen Reporters’ Questions 10:19 Listen Canada’s minister of agriculture is counting on pressure on the American government from within the United States to help bring resolution to the Mandatory Country of... (Continue reading)
Pork Producers Encouraged to Be Aware of Implications of Proposed Revised Pig Code of Practice
Farmscape for June 13, 2013 Full Interview 7:51 Listen Sask Pork is encouraging pork producers to look at how a proposed revised Pig Code of Practice will impact their operations. A proposed updated Code of Practice for the Care and... (Continue reading)
Prospects of Retaliatory Tariffs Hoped to Encourage Resolution of M-COOL Issue
Farmscape for June 11, 2013 Full Interview 8:30 Listen The chair of Manitoba Pork Council hopes the release of the list of imported U.S. products that could become targeted for retaliatory tariffs in response to U.S. Mandatory Country of Origin... (Continue reading)
CPC and CSHB Take Action to Deal With Virus Threat
Written on 10 Jun, 2013 at 6:38 in Canada West Swine News, Featured Canada East Swine News | Comments
Over 115 individuals joined a national conference call this week to learn more about the current US outbreak of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED) virus – the first time this disease has been confirmed in North America – and to learn... (Continue reading)
Alberta Pork Monthly Pricing Report – May, 2013
Written on 3 Jun, 2013 at 6:56 in Canada West Swine News | Comments
Prepared by Phoenix AgriTec Inc. April began with the bearish results of USDA Livestock and Meat Trade Data report. US pork exports for the month of Feb fell 6% from Jan and 12.7% from the year before, to the lowest... (Continue reading)
Sask Pork to Assist Producers During Proposed Updated Pig Code of Practice Public Comment Period
Farmscape for May 31, 2013 Full Interview 6:32 Listen The producer services manager with the Saskatchewan Pork Development Board says Sask Pork will provide support to its members as they review proposed changes to Canada’s Pig Code of Practice. The... (Continue reading)
Canadian Swine health Intelligence Network Survey Shows Canada Remains Free of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea
Farmscape for May 29, 2013 Full Interview 8:39 Listen The Canadian Swine Health Intelligence Network reports so far Canada has escaped a Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea outbreak that’s impacted several states in the U.S. Midwest. Possible outbreaks of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea,... (Continue reading)
International Trade Rules Must be Followed for World Trade to Work Properly
Full Interview 10:43 Listen Farmscape for May 27, 2013 The general manager of Manitoba Pork Council warns, if the United States wants world trade to work properly, it needs to realize that all of the participants including themselves have to... (Continue reading)
Canadian Pork Council: US flouting of WTO Ruling on COOL shocking and appalling
Written on 27 May, 2013 at 6:19 in Canada West Swine News, Featured Canada East Swine News | Comments
The United States was required to come into compliance with its World Trade Organization (WTO) obligations in relation to the WTO dispute on its country-of-origin labelling (COOL) regulations today, May 23. The US has not done so. The Canadian Pork... (Continue reading)
Genesus Exports Almost 1,100 Canadian Breeding Pigs to the Philippines
On April 30, 2013 a full air charter shipment of 1,098 breedingpigs supplied by GENESUS Genetics of Canada arrived successfully at General Santos Airport located on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. Receiving the shipment was Biotech Farms Inc., a... (Continue reading)
Alberta Pork Monthly Pricing Report – May, 2013
Written on 20 May, 2013 at 6:36 in Canada West Swine News | Comments
April began with the bearish results of USDA Livestock and Meat Trade Data report. US pork exports for the month of Feb fell 6% from Jan and 12.7% from the year before, to the lowest volume since July 2011. Major... (Continue reading)
Prairie Swine Centre Spring Meeting Presentations
Throughout the month of April, Prairie Swine Centre hosted a series of producer meetings throughout Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario. The purpose of the meetings was to bring the latest information from the Centre to industry, and provide pork producers... (Continue reading)
Recent Posts
- Pork Producers Encouraged to Identify Necessary Changes in the Proposed Updated Pig Code of Practice
- Canada Counts on U.S. Interests to Press for Resolution of Country of Origin Labelling Issue
- Pork Producers Encouraged to Be Aware of Implications of Proposed Revised Pig Code of Practice
- Prospects of Retaliatory Tariffs Hoped to Encourage Resolution of M-COOL Issue
- CPC and CSHB Take Action to Deal With Virus Threat
- Alberta Pork Monthly Pricing Report – May, 2013
- Sask Pork to Assist Producers During Proposed Updated Pig Code of Practice Public Comment Period
- Canadian Swine health Intelligence Network Survey Shows Canada Remains Free of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea
- International Trade Rules Must be Followed for World Trade to Work Properly
- Canadian Pork Council: US flouting of WTO Ruling on COOL shocking and appalling
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