Canada is one step closer to a compartmentalizing regime that hog farmers and the rest of the industry hope protects them against market impacts of African swine fever. Practical application can be developed now that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has released its National Standards and National Framework for the Canadian ASF Compartment Program. From […] Read more
ASF compartmentalization moves a step forward
Plan not an attempt to download responsibilities, CFIA says
Tech simplifies hog feed monitoring to reduce down time
FeedFlo system monitors feed pipes to ensure feed is flowing
Glacier FarmMedia – Successful technology often arises from figuring out how to simplify something that’s exceedingly complex. That’s what Casey Forsyth and his team at FeedFlo think they’ve managed to do with their feed pipe monitoring system. Their model is working in scores of barns in the U.S. hog belt, where it accurately measures whether […] Read more
Be optimistic with grain storage system plans
It’s best to plan for the best year to ensure sufficient storage
Glacier FarmMedia – Planning a storage system means being optimistic, future-focused and strategic. It isn’t something faced only when a big crop is coming and there’s not enough room to store it. “It starts with a plan,” said Derek Johnson, as he stood in the lee of the giant grain bin system AGI built on […] Read more
Mid-sized rock picker simple but tough
Degelman’s new rock picker designed to reduce the number of rock pickers a farm needs
Glacier FarmMedia – Rocks don’t change. Farmers have been picking and dumping them ever since fields were broken. But farms have changed. Farmers have changed. Farm machinery has changed. That means rock-pickers had to change. “It’s going to pick more rocks with less dump time,” said Derek Molnar of Degelman, the rock-picking giant, about the […] Read more
Opinion: Ottawa’s social media feud may make info harder to find
Glacier FarmMedia – Rich and powerful men can be silly. It’s been easy to laugh at the antics of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s Elon Musk as they swing handbags at each other and challenge each other to a mixed martial arts “cage match.” But the more significant actions of the tech giants are deadly […] Read more
Three-in-one swine vaccine hard to make
The manufacturers of a trivalent vaccine aimed at the hog sector faced a number of challenges
Glacier FarmMedia – Multiple studies examining the ability of Merck Animal Health’s Circumvent CML vaccine to control porcine circovirus, mycoplasma hyopneumoniae and lawsonia intracellularis in hogs were required to prove the new combination works and is safe. It might sound easy to take three vaccines, mix them up and stick them in a bottle. It’s […] Read more
At Ag in Motion: ‘Small iron’ revolution brings bikes to farms
There’s a “small iron revolution” happening on farms across Canada. Even though most farmers and people in agriculture probably see “fat bikes” and “e-bikes” as urban phenomena, these new versions of bicycles are leaping into the farmyards and farm fields in hundreds of places. “I have some farm friends who have e-bikes (or) big fat […] Read more
At Ag in Motion: Farmers gung-ho about digital integration system
'Having a single data point... was number one for us'
For a committed user of the Climate FieldView digital integration system, Mike Ferguson had an unusual observation about himself. “I’m not a big technology guy,” said Ferguson, who with his wife Regan farms 3,000 acres at Melfort, Sask. But for him, using the various data-based management tools available in farming today isn’t just helpful, but […] Read more
Computer chips made in Taiwan are a vital farm input
It sounds like the premise of a cheap novelette: put 90 per cent of the world’s most strategic industry in a tiny place caught between two superpowers and push those powers toward confrontation and war. It seems far-fetched until you consider that this is a real situation in the semiconductor industry based in Taiwan. Almost […] Read more
Comment: Canada needs to push back against U.K. trade behaviour
The U.K. government hopes to use CPTPP as part of its post-EU plan, but it’s not a good deal for Canadian pork producers
Glacier FarmMedia – Sadly but predictably, the United Kingdom’s probable entry in the Asia Pacific trade deal might give it room to continue to defame Canadian meat. Since joining the Canada-European Union trade deal, known as the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), Canadian meat and grain exporters have been vexed by crafty EU tricks […] Read more
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