Hog barn expansion

[Braveheart]

So they have a 24,000 sow barn operational already?

Can't say the numbers but expansion everywhere. Sow barns, nurseries, and feeders. Is big. Some RMs have said no. Big fights in others.

[foragefarmer]

Vertically Integrated industrial hog factories, nothing remotely to do with family farming! Using hundreds of thousand of gallons of fresh water as a big toilet flush to clean their massive barns. No homes, residents or farm yards on the barn sites.

When it's time to spread the manure or when it's windy and the humidity is high, all the nearby family farms have to put up with the repulsive stench. When operation were smaller and family run there was never a big problem with the odor. We had cattle for many years on our farm and we never had the strong odor that these hog factories are generating. My family farm who is forth generation and paid taxes all these years DO NOT want these types of neighbors ruining our quality of life just for the sake of some out of county investors.


MB. government gives 9.5 million to a company 51% owned by Asian countries, haven't they learnt their lesson when they ran the Crocus Investment Fund, they were stupid enough to invest or give loans to a major hog player who went tits up!

[grassfarmer]

So they have a 24,000 sow barn operational already?

No, I believe they were talking 4 barns per site, 6000 per barn but these would be growing pigs not sows.

[Braveheart]

No, I believe they were talking 4 barns per site, 6000 per barn but these would be growing pigs not sows.

That's just for Argyle. Prominent Red Angus breeders offering land. Neighbors will no longer buy bulls there. Too bad. They have good cattle.

Killarney is expanding on already approved sites.

[hobbyfrmr]

it is the phillipines. Interestingly, neepawa (where slaughter plant is) now has an undesirable element. Filipino crime. Prostitution and drugs.

road trip baaaaaaby !!!!😎

[Guest]

And the ground pork smells just like the inside of a stinkin pig barn when you fry it

[grassfarmer]

And the ground pork smells just like the inside of a stinkin pig barn when you fry it

That's what I think when you read the story about this high quality product being shipped to discerning consumers in Japan - maybe a good reason to keep hog production separate (in a different country) from pork consumption - if they don't know what a hog barn smells like they won't associate it with the taste and smell of what they are eating!

[Jay-mo]

I probably shouldn't interrupt this bashing thread...but the hog industry has been a good thing for myself and my family.

[Braveheart]

I probably shouldn't interrupt this bashing thread...but the hog industry has been a good thing for myself and my family.

We had a hog operation for 18 years and it supported our family (wife and three kids). Barn was in our yard and yes sometimes there was odour. We had one quarter owned and rented one and most of the grain grown was fed to the pigs. It was our CWB buster at the time.

I understand what you're saying Jay-Mo and what I appreciate about yours is that you built the barn. You took the risk and while you might be contracted to a vertical integrator it's still yours and you and your family live here.

[grassfarmer]

I probably shouldn't interrupt this bashing thread...but the hog industry has been a good thing for myself and my family.

My intent wasn't to launch a bashing post but to discuss and hear others opinions on what is happening around here. If you are a hog producer do you see this model of foreign corporate ownership using US grown feed as offering value for Canadian farmers? If you are not aligned with this company do you consider their presumably increasing domination of the sector a threat to your hog production? Is there room for unlimited hog expansion in Canada based on an export market and if so what happens if there is a trade shut down like with Canola now - do you all suffer equally or does a company like Hylife suffer less than the rest of you because they are foreign owned - basically a foreign company producing the product for their consumers in our country?