It’s a special show today, with Food Bubble host, Andrew Campbell filling in for Shaun Haney. You’ll hear: The latest ag news with RealAgriculture’s Jessika Guse; An update from Agritechnica, with Shaun Haney and Jay Stroeve; Andrew Dickson of Manitoba Pork on trade and the latest news in the industry; and Master blender Don Livermore… Read More

It’s backwards. Illogical. The federal government’s move to enforce an outdated rule that increases the risk of PED virus infecting Western Canadian pig farms doesn’t make sense. While hog operations across the U.S. and Eastern Canada have been devastated by PEDv over the last few years, Western Canadian hog farms have managed to stay mostly… Read More

It won’t be a repeat of hog barn boom of the 1990s, but with growing concern about not having enough pigs to supply the province’s two major hog processing plants, the Manitoba government has agreed to allow new barns to be built in the province once again. The NDP government implemented a moratorium on hog barn construction… Read More

There are signs the long-running dispute over U.S. mandatory country of origin labelling (COOL) rules for meat is moving closer to resolution, as a Canadian delegation led by Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz visited Washington, DC. this week. “COOL is on life support,” Ritz told reporters on a conference call on Thursday afternoon. In what was the… Read More

 

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