Agriculture News Archives

A FarmEcon LLC study has shown the U.S. renewable fuel mandate has resulted in a dramatic increase in the cost of food production and a decrease in food affordability.

The Canadian Swine Health Board is optimistic the effort to reduce the risk of disease impacting Canada’s swine herd will receive the funding necessary to allow it to continue.

A weather and crop specialist with CWB predicts continued tight global availability of grain and high prices before prices start to ease in anticipation of this year’s harvest.

A director with Manitoba Pork Council suggests the introduction of new technology is making it easier for pork producers to maintain or improve productivity under group sow housing systems.

The executive director of the Manitoba Livestock Manure Management Initiative says the rising price of commercial fertilizer has highlighted the economic value that can be extracted from the use of livestock manure fertilizer.

An agricultural economist with the University of Missouri says the U.S. pork industry could well set a new pork export record in 2013.

A new device developed by the University of Guelph to provide humane euthanasia to piglets is now commercially available.

The director of procurement for western Canada with Maple Leaf is encouraging those who supply the company’s pork plants with live hogs to consider switching to needle-free administration of medications.

The marketing and technical services manager with AcuShot Needle-Free says the biggest factor limiting the adoption of needle-free injection technology for the administration of veterinary compounds to pigs is the economic pressures facing pork producers.

The Canadian Association of Swine Veterinarians reports regional efforts to control the spread of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome are showing signs of success.