Insights and Stories on Canadian Pork

Pork representatives meet with parliamentarians

Nov. 5, 2024 at 1:59 pm CST

Representatives from the Canadian Meat Council and the Canadian Pork Council met with parliamentarians as well as government and industry officials in Ottawa earlier this week.

Pork sector calls for essential service status amid B.C. port strike

Jul. 11, 2023 at 3:25 pm CDT

By Jonah Grignon

Canadian Pork Council names new top brass

Jan. 13, 2023 at 8:29 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

Federal funding lined up for programs, planning against swine fever

Sep. 4, 2022 at 5:40 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

Feds back pork producers with new levy on imports

Nov. 5, 2020 at 8:37 pm CST

By D.C. Fraser

Hog market at seasonal lows, turnaround expected

Sep. 17, 2019 at 10:05 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — The Canadian hog market may be at its seasonal lows, but tightening worldwide supplies should underpin values over the next few months. “We’re at a seasonal time of year when prices move lower,” said Brad Marceniuk, livestock economist with Saskatchewan Agriculture, pointing to higher U.S. slaughter numbers and […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. livestock: Nearby lean hogs drop on continued herd expansion

Jun. 28, 2019 at 7:32 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) lean hog futures were mixed on Friday, with nearby contracts pressured by plentiful supplies of hogs and pork and deferred months buoyed by signs of a slowing multi-year U.S. hog herd expansion, traders said. Actively traded nearby contracts posted steep declines after […]

By Karl Plume

China’s shutout of Canadian meat scrambles global pork flow

Jun. 26, 2019 at 2:18 pm CDT

Winnipeg | Reuters — China’s decision to block imports of Canadian meat has set off a global chain reaction in pork trading but it will do little to curb overall demand as a disease ravaging the Chinese hog herd elevates prices, industry experts say. China said on Tuesday it wants […]

By Rod Nickel

China to accept Canadian chilled beef, pork in pilot project

Dec. 4, 2017 at 6:03 pm CST

Exporters of Canadian beef and pork are set to get expanded access to the “massive” Chinese market through a new bilateral pilot project. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Monday announced a series of joint initiatives and agreements in several fields including “a pilot project for […]

By Staff

Canada untangles pork label rule for EU export

Oct. 27, 2017 at 7:38 pm CDT

A domestic technical obstacle has been cleared out of Canadian pork’s export path to the European Union, the Canadian Pork Council said Friday. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency last week made changes to its Manual of Procedures, which will allow pork packers to apply health mark labels after pork has […]