Difficult Year For Weed Control

Sep 07, 2021

2021 was a difficult year for weed control.

Kim Brown-Livingston is the province's weed specialist.

"We were so very dry at the beginning. We didn't have a lot of weeds come up and then after that we got little flushes of rain and so some of the weeds were coming but it was really difficult for guys to spray...Then we had a terrible time in spray season. We did not have a lot a good days for spraying. We either had high winds or we had a lot of temperature extremes."

She reminds farmers to be on the lookout for waterhemp.

"We are finding pockets of it and it is a Tier 1 noxious weed. It must be destroyed, we can't let it go to seed. It has to be destroyed, there's no exception to that. These are terrible weeds. Tier 1 weeds are very competitive weeds that can cause an awful lot of economic loss and especially something like a waterhemp if it gets into our crop land and really limits growing crops like soybeans and corn and sunflowers, because a lot of our herbicide options are limited in those crops."

Click here to see more...

Video: What Does 20 MILLION Hogs a Year Look Like?

?? The Multi-Plant System Processing 20 Million Hogs Annually in the Midwest JBS USA operates multiple large-scale pork processing facilities across the Midwest, including major plants in Iowa, Minnesota, and Indiana. Combined, these facilities have the capacity to process approximately 20 million hogs annually.

Each plant operates high-speed automated slaughter systems capable of processing up to 20,000 head per day, followed by fabrication lines that break carcasses into primals, sub-primals, and case-ready retail products.

Hog procurement is coordinated through electronic marketing platforms that connect regional contract finishing operations and independent producers to plant demand schedules. This digital procurement system allows for steady supply flow and scheduling efficiency across multiple facilities.

Processing plants incorporate comprehensive food safety systems, including pathogen intervention technologies, rapid chilling processes, and integrated cold-chain management. USDA inspection is embedded throughout the harvest and fabrication stages to ensure regulatory compliance and product integrity. Finished pork products — from bulk primals to retail-ready packaged cuts — are distributed through coordinated logistics networks serving domestic and export markets.