Celebrating Ontario Agriculture Week

Oct 09, 2023

Guelph - Ontario Pork is proud to join commodity organizations across the province to celebrate Ontario Agriculture Week, which runs October 2 to 8.

This week marks an important acknowledgment of the continued contributions made by the agriculture community.

Ontario Pork is proud to represent 997 pork farmers who work diligently to provide a nutritious and protein-rich food source for millions of people here at home and around the world.

Ontario Agriculture week is dedicated to:

Celebrating the abundance of food Ontario farmers produce.
Recognizing everyone the industry employs and the communities supported by agriculture, and
Highlighting the economic output the agriculture industry delivers for the province.

The Ontario pork industry alone contributes over $1.35 billion to the province’s GDP while employing nearly 20,000 full-time equivalent jobs. Multiple that across the other agriculture commodities and it's evident that farmers are not only feeding our province, but they are also a driving force behind a strong and functioning economy.

This week we take time to celebrate Ontario's rich agriculture heritage which has paved the way for the success of future generations.

Source : Ontario Pork

Video: Four Star Pork Industry Conf - Back to Basics: Fundamentals drive vaccine performance

At a time when disease pressure continues to challenge pork production systems across the United States, vaccination remains one of the most valuable and heavily debated tools available to veterinarians and producers.

Speaking at the 2025 Four Star Pork Industry Conference in Muncie, Indiana, Dr. Daniel Gascho, veterinarian at Four Star Veterinary Service, encouraged the industry to return to fundamentals in how vaccines are selected, handled and administered across sow farms, gilt development units and grow-finish operations.

Gascho acknowledged at the outset that vaccination can quickly become a technical and sometimes tedious topic. But he said that real-world execution, not complex immunology, is where most vaccine failures occur.