The experts agreed that regardless of which system is incorporated into the herd, nutrition and overall animal well-being are important factors in the success rate.

A new Centre for Meat Innovation and Technology (CMIT) was officially launched today by Meat and Poultry Ontario to help Canadian processors collaborate, find and adopt new technology and innovation and make it easier for their employees to learn and advance their skills. “This centre will ultimately help both processors and meat and poultry producers,”

The main players in the hog industry have agreed on a new pricing formula to define the price of animals sold to slaughterhouses. The Hog Marketing Agreement was made public Tuesday. It marks the culmination of a conciliation process led by former Charest government finance minister Raymond Bachand since August. Bachand presented the agreement earlier

A swine nutritionist with Western Ag Supply says by purchasing low-cost opportunity feed ingredients, feeding according to nutritional requirements and managing feed wastage pork producers can reduce their feed costs and improve their profitability. “How to Save Money on Your Hog Operations” is the focus of the second webinar in the Saskatchewan Pork Development Board’s

No matter your stance on climate change, greenhouse gas emissions or the role agriculture plays in the issue, one thing is certain. The clock is ticking for all of agriculture to build their own solution because consumers, industry stakeholders, corporations and governments are all lining up to do it for us. Banks Baker with the

Beginning in 2015 researchers from around North America, in collaboration with PigGen Canada and the Centre de développement du porc du Québec (CDPQ), established a natural disease challenge model (NDCM) at a typical wean-to-finish pig barn in Deschambault, Québec. To do this, they “seeded” the pigs with multiple diseases that are problematic in commercial swine

We’ve all been hit with sticker shock lately when shopping at the grocery store. Instead of grumbling over our favorite topic – the weather, everyone is now talking about price increases for eggs, a household staple.

he interactive webinar series will cover local meat marketing.

An independent economic analysis of the return on investments by the pork sector into research credits that research for a three and a half percent increase in the sector’s productivity.

According to the University of Minnesota Center for Farm Financial Management, the average daily feed cost per cow in 2021 was $7 in the upper Midwest; it was up to about $7.50 in 2022. Continually rising feed prices have tightened margins for dairy farms. In fact, over the last decade, total feed costs of a