Insights and Stories on Hogs

U.S. to train more beagles to sniff out swine fever

Mar. 6, 2019 at 12:36 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. government will increase the number of dogs used to sniff out illegal pork products at airports and seaports in an effort to keep out a contagious hog disease that has spread across Asia and Europe, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday. The […]

One Alberta PED case deemed ‘false positive’

Mar. 4, 2019 at 5:02 pm CST

By GFM Staff

Alberta confirms third and fourth PED cases

Mar. 1, 2019 at 5:31 pm CST

By GFM Staff

China moves to halt swine fever with hog industry overhaul

Feb. 27, 2019 at 11:01 am CST

By Dominique Patton Hallie Gu

PED not yet done with Alberta

Feb. 22, 2019 at 4:37 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

Olymel to close Quebec City processing plant

Feb. 21, 2019 at 7:53 pm CST

La Coop federee’s meatpacking arm is set to shut an aging Quebec City further-processing plant it took over last year. Olymel announced Tuesday it will close the former Aliments Triomphe plant in the Vanier area of Quebec City effective May 10, affecting 47 employees. The Vanier plant’s production, which includes […]

By GFM Staff

Pigs could soon move off Alberta’s PED-infected farm

Feb. 7, 2019 at 8:15 pm CST

The first, and so far only, Alberta hog farm to catch porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) could see animal shipments restart on a supervised basis “in the coming week.” The provincial ag ministry on Thursday said its investigation of the PED case, discovered Jan. 3 at a 400-head farrow-to finish operation, […]

By GFM Staff

Alberta’s PED outbreak so far held to one spot

Jan. 18, 2019 at 8:26 am CST

The probe into Alberta’s first-ever outbreak of porcine epidemic diarrhea hasn’t yet shown any paths by which the PED virus might have got to the farm — nor any new cases anywhere else in the province. The provincial government on Jan. 7 confirmed the first case of PED to appear […]

By GFM Staff

PEDv arrives in Alberta hogs

Jan. 8, 2019 at 6:35 pm CST

Veterinary officials in Alberta are now investigating the province’s first-ever outbreak of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) in hogs. Alberta Pork, the province’s hog producer commission, and the provincial government on Tuesday announced an outbreak of the viral disease at what was described as a “400-head hog operation.” Javier Bahamon, quality […]

By GFM Staff

Leaving a lighter environmental footprint

Dec. 21, 2018 at 10:16 am CST

Just how big is the environmental footprint of the Canadian pork industry? There are a lot of opinions but fewer facts when it comes time to try to answer that question. Filling in those blanks is the subject of an upcoming multi-year study by Mario Tenuta, a professor of applied […]

By Don Norman