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National Pork Board Offers $46K for Top Innovators in Challenge

With foreign animal disease such as African swine fever closer than ever to the United States, the National Pork Board has launched its first-ever innovation challenge that deals with the potential need of mass carcass disposal. The challenge is seeking new and innovative methods of pig mortality disposal that go beyond the existing methods of burial, incineration, composting and landfills and provide pig farmers with more options.

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Grazing Sheep Despite Heat, Humidity & Wildfire Smoke!

Video: Grazing Sheep Despite Heat, Humidity & Wildfire Smoke!


At Ewetopia Farms, we are still grazing sheep despite the oppressive heat and humidity confounded by the added dense smoke from hundreds of wildfires burning in Northern Ontario. It is proving a challenge for the health of our sheep as well as us as farmers who have no choice but to work outside during these adverse conditions.