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The pork industry needs to look for ‘game changers’ in order to stay competitive in production, retail and export, says a category manager with Cargill, one of the largest privately-held integrated food companies in the world.

Pork producers and their industry counterparts, looking nervously at the next few months, got a tentative thumbs-up from two market watchers on prospects for profitability on both sides of the border.

If the Canadian pork industry wants to know where the U.S. pork industry is going it just needs to watch the U.S. dollar and the energy market, says a leading pork industry economist.

The Manitoba Rural Adaptation Council (MRAC) is pleased to announce the hiring of Eugene Warwaruk for a one-year term, to replace Kristin Yaworski-Lowdon who is going on maternity leave.

The Manitoba Pulse Growers Association (MPGA) is pleased to hear Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC) will expand the crop insurance coverage area for soybeans to cover almost all of Southern Manitoba, the Interlake, and areas along the West side of Lake Manitoba.

RCMP is seeking the public’s assistance in locating a missing 16-year-old teenager who left the Town of Emerson on Monday February 2, 2009.

On February 5, 2009 at 10:15 pm, RCMP Powerview were called to the intersection of Hwy 304 and PTH 11 in the town of Powerview-Pine Falls where a semi-truck with tanker had overturned, causing gasoline to spill from the tanker.

Manitoba’s Community Enterprise Investment Tax Credit (CEITC) has been expanded to encourage more investors to partner with growing businesses in need of equity capital to continue growing, Competitiveness, Training and Trade Minister Andrew Swan announced.

Are you one of the lucky young people to name a future working police dog? This is your chance to find out.

The vice-president of live procurement with Maple Leaf Foods reports the recent economic turmoil has increased the level of interest in the use of the various risk management tools.