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Producers Encouraged to Consider the Advantages of Group Sow Housing
2013-05-10 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CANADA - A researcher with the Prairie Swine Centre is encouraging pork producers to focus on the advantages offered by group housing as they consider moving away the use of gestation stalls, writes Bruce Cochrane.
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Digging Deep into Parity Records to Optimize Sow Herd Performance
2013-05-06 18:55:00| National Hog Farmer
By Ron Ketchem and Mark Rix, Swine Management Services, LLC, Fremont, NE This is the 80th monthly column written for National Hog Farmers Weekly Preview. This monthly exercise has forced us to look at production data in new ways and to dig deeper into our database. We have learned a great deal in this process. As a result, we have written a new Swine Management Services (SMS) benchmarking program that incorporates some of the knowledge we have gained over the last four years. This new program will retain everything that is in the current farm benchmarking program, plus new parity benchmarking reports and charts. read more
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CPC Sees Opportunity in Sow Housing
2013-05-01 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CANADA - The Canadian Pork Council views the commitment made by the Retail Council of Canada (RCC) on Sow Housing as an opportunity for productive dialogue between farmers and retailers.
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Supermarket Council Takes Stand against Sow Stalls
2013-05-01 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CANADA - The Retail Council of Canada announced that all eight of the largest Canadian supermarket chains — Walmart Canada, Costco Canada, Metro, Loblaw, Safeway Canada, Federated Co-operatives, Sobeys and Co-op Atlantic — will move away from gestation crate confinement of pigs in their supply systems over the next nine years.
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Producer Group Responds to Canadian Retailers Position on Sow Housing
2013-04-30 17:13:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: Canadian Pork Council The chair of the Canadian Pork Council (CPC) says the Retail Council of Canada (RCC) commitment on sow housing provides an opportunity for productive dialog between farmers and retailers. “As a farmer, my first priority is the care and welfare of the animals. I am proud that my farm helps the Canadian pork industry provide consumers a healthy and safe food supply,” says CPC chair Jean-Guy Vincent. “Any change on farm must be done in a way that protects the welfare of the animals and keeps Canadian farms strong.” read more
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