Pork exports strengthen Manitoba's economy

Manitoba’s pork export business has changed, according to a new provincial trade report released earlier this year.

The report looked to sum up the province’s current pork trade landscape and identify alternate markets the province could be selling into. 

It was one of several such commodity specific reports the province released this year.

Manitoba’s total pork exports reached $1.7 billion in 2024, according to the report.

Pork was also one of the province’s top-three exports in 2023, a year where total ag exports hit a whopping $9.39 billion, growing over six per cent from the year before. 

At the time, almost all of the $111-million annual jump in Manitoba’s meat exports were driven by pork.

Manitoba Agriculture reported that over the last five years, the province has sold over $7.5 billion worth of pork and pork products abroad.