Agriculture News Archives

Research conducted by the Prairie Swine Centre suggests the temperament of the sow can be used to identify those sows best suited to particular housing systems.

The vice-president research and innovation with the Canadian International Grains Institute says new strategies to manage phosphorus levels in swine diets are helping pork producers to reduce the volume phosphorus ending up in the environment while cutting production costs.

A new series of videos being produced by Manitoba Pork Council will focus on methods pork producers can use to reduce stress when handling pigs.

A senior marketing associate with Elanco Animal Health says, as the number of farms producing pigs has fallen and the size of those farms has increased, consumer interest and awareness of the environmental implications of pork production has increased.

The manager of PigTrace Canada is encouraging pork producers to begin preparing now for the introduction of mandatory reporting of swine movements within Canada.

The executive director of Agriculture in the Classroom Manitoba says efforts to incorporate agricultural concepts into the kindergarten to grade 12 curriculum appear to be paying off.

The 2013 Direct Farm Marketing Conference will held in Dauphin on March 8 and 9 and will help rural entrepreneurs discover new marketing concepts, better understand market trends and develop business ideas.

The executive director of the Center for Food Integrity USA says those involved in animal agriculture need to be continually responsive to attacks by animal activist groups.

A director with Manitoba Pork Council says pork producers need to consider now how they’ll make the switch from stall housing to group housing of gestating sows.

The manager of PigTrace Canada reports the system that will accommodate swine traceability in Canada is now in place and will be ready to start accepting reports of swine movements within the next couple of weeks.