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By Alice McFarlane

Agriculture Roundup

Agriculture Roundup for Monday September 16, 2019

Sep 16, 2019 | 10:14 AM

The president of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan said he hopes China will soon lift its tariffs on Canadian agricultural products after similar tariffs were pulled from US pork and soybeans.

Todd Lewis said China has been a good customer and hopefully Canadian pork will be allowed back into the Chinese marketplace.

China restricted Canadian pork and canola imports after the arrest of a Huawei tech executive last year.

Since then Lewis said pig farmers across the country have felt the negative impact.

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A University of Saskatchewan professor is warning that the province’s wild pig population is expanding further south, closer to the border with the United States.

Ryan Brook with the college of agriculture and bioresources said the government isn’t doing enough to stop the spread. He called the animals “environmental train wrecks.”

The animals are a hybrid of domestic pigs and Eurasian wild boars.

The Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation took over the pig management program in 2015.

Spokesperson Darby Warner said extra effort was put toward controlling the pigs and there have been no sightings anywhere near the US.

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A University of Saskatchewan researcher is studying the effects different types of grazing forages could have on emissions from beef cattle.

Dr. Bart Lardner said his researchers are looking at nasal vapors.

He said ruminants tend to eructate, or burp, a lot of gasses because of their fermentation digestive system.

Second year masters student Tess Mills said they can collect daily samples by slipping a yoke around an animals neck which positions a device above the nose and then vacuums up methane and carbon dioxide.

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Manitoba Pork said an accounting firm has done some calculating to figure out how much a PED virus outbreak would cost a producer.

The organization says MNP held a workshop for Hutterite colonies in June.

Using a mock farm with certain assumptions, it determined there would be a 13 per cent decrease in production.

That would translate to a financial loss of over $187,000 or roughly $460 dollars per sow on a 400 sow farrow to finish operation.

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