CANADA - The chair of the Saskatchewan Pork development Board says improved opportunities for generating income through pork production has stimulated renewed interest in expanding hog finishing capacity in western Canada, writes Bruce Cochrane.Sask Pork has been working to stimulate interest in building new finishing barns to accommodate a growing demand among the processing plants in Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan for slaughter hogs.FlorianPossberg, the Chair of the Saskatchewan Pork Development Board, recalls when the industry went into bad times around 2007, the result of a combination of high grain prices, a very high Canadian dollar and disease issues such as swine influenza, all new hog barn construction in western Canada basically ground to a halt.

　　布鲁斯·科克伦(Bruce Cochrane)写道，据萨斯喀彻温省猪肉海外发展部主席称，有一个在猪肉生产中获得效益的好机会，它重新激起了人们拓展猪肥育能力的兴趣。萨斯喀彻温省猪肉协会(Sask Pork)向来致力于激发人们创造新肥育猪舍的兴趣，新肥育猪舍用来满意曼尼托巴省(Manitoba)、阿尔伯塔省(Alberta)和萨斯喀彻温省(Saskatchewan)加工场对屠宰生猪数量增添的需求。萨斯喀彻温省猪肉海外发展部主席佛罗莱恩·珀斯伯格(Florian Possberg)归忆猪肉行业在2007年经历的艰苦时期，高昂的粮食价格、高位的加拿大货币和疾病问题譬如猪流感共同导致加拿大西部的新猪圈建设基本停滞。