Thanks for joining us for our last-day-of-September edition of RealAg Radio, live from the studio at Lethbridge, Alberta. Today’s show includes: Top ag news, including the removal of two wheat varieties from the new seed royalty pilot program announced earlier this year; A product spotlight with Jenna Metzger of Climate FieldView, on collecting and analyzing… Read More
Tag: Dr. Ryan Brook
It would be hard to create a more perfect pest than a wild hog. Largely a product of escaped domestic pigs, wild hogs now cover more than a million square kilometres of Canadian landscape. They have few natural predators, can survive harsh winters, breed several times a year, and manage to evade most human contact…. Read More
First introduced to Canada in the 1980s as a diversification option, wild hog populations outside of farmed production have been steadily climbing. Wild hogs that escaped from farms or were released from enclosures when businesses shut down have done very well in Saskatchewan — so well that it’s estimated descendants of those original hogs now… Read More
Tuesday’s RealAg Radio is all about pests and policy — but perhaps not the pests you commonly think of. On this episode, host Lyndsey Smith speaks with: Jessika Guse, with the news; Sylvain Charlebois, about the national food policy; Ryan Brook, about wild hogs in Saskatchewan; and, Bern Tobin asks Albert Tenuta about what farmers… Read More
At one time, there was a thought that wild pigs could be part of a livestock diversification strategy for Saskatchewan farmers and ranchers. After several farmers gave it a try in the early 90s, fences were cut loose and a new pest problem began within the province. There is still debate over the severity of… Read More