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News and Views<br />
Technology<br />
Transfer Manager<br />
joins Prairie<br />
Swine Centre<br />
Lee Whittington, President<br />
of Prairie Swine Centre, has<br />
announced the appointment<br />
of Ken Engele as Technology<br />
Transfer Manager.<br />
Ken brings more than 14<br />
years of swine industry<br />
experience, both on the<br />
commercial level, in addition<br />
to developing expertise in the<br />
areas of assessing the economic<br />
impact of hog marketing<br />
and research in the swine<br />
industry. At Prairie Swine<br />
Centre his work will focus on<br />
delivering an effective and<br />
timely communication with<br />
pork producers, and those<br />
organizations that service the<br />
pork industry. Ken will also be<br />
responsible for managing the<br />
Technology Transfer component<br />
of the Canadian Swine and<br />
Research Development Cluster.<br />
The CSRDC consists of 14<br />
research projects across Canada<br />
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designed to reduce the cost<br />
of production and focus on<br />
product differentiation. Ken<br />
will be responsible for working<br />
with researchers funded by<br />
the program to ensure timely,<br />
accurate delivery of results<br />
from the research to the<br />
industry.<br />
“It’s great to welcome someone<br />
with Ken’s background”, notes<br />
Lee Whittington, President/CEO<br />
– Prairie Swine Centre. “He<br />
has excellent understanding of<br />
what makes the pork industry<br />
tick and how Prairie Swine<br />
Centre can meet the needs of<br />
Canadian producers.”<br />
Hog producers<br />
welcome new<br />
Farm and Food<br />
Discovery Centre<br />
By Myron Love<br />
“This is an exciting day for<br />
agriculture,” said Karl Kynoch,<br />
chair of the Manitoba Pork<br />
Council, speaking at the grand<br />
opening on Friday, September<br />
16, of the Bruce D. Campbell<br />
Farm and Food Discovery<br />
Centre at the University of<br />
Manitoba’s Glenlea Research<br />
Station (just south of Winnipeg<br />
of Highway 75). The Manitoba<br />
Farm and Food Centre opening – The “ribbon cutting” ceremony at the<br />
opening of the Bruce Campbell Discovery Centre (Karl Kynoch on far left)<br />
Pork Council, Kynoch noted,<br />
contributed to the construction<br />
of the hands-on interpretive<br />
facility with a $1 million<br />
donation – and Kynoch topped<br />
that up with the presentation<br />
of a cheque for $20,000 to<br />
Dr. Michael Trevan, Dean of<br />
the university’s Faculty of<br />
Agricultural and Food Sciences,<br />
to be used to help promote the<br />
centre and bring people out.<br />
The Bruce Campbell Discovery<br />
Centre is intended to<br />
demonstrate modern farming<br />
and food production. The<br />
exhibits include viewing<br />
windows that allow visitors to<br />
peek into a real swine research<br />
With over 30 years of experience in the livestock industry,<br />
we continue to provide today’s producers with<br />
The Best Full Service Marketing<br />
in North America<br />
Feeder Pigs<br />
S.E.W.s<br />
barn, a tractor operator’s seat<br />
where visitors can “drive”<br />
through fields on a screen and<br />
a grinder where visitors can<br />
make their own flour.<br />
“We believe this facility will<br />
be a wonderful tool to help tell<br />
the story of pork production<br />
and farming,” Kynoch said.<br />
“We are also looking forward<br />
to bringing Manitoba Pork<br />
visitors from countries<br />
such as China, Japan, Russia<br />
and the EU to this centre so<br />
that they see firsthand what<br />
we do in Manitoba to improve<br />
food safety.”<br />
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