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Pork Quality Competition highlights production management

Manitoba Pork recently highlighted some of the top producers during their Pork Quality Competition.

The event held during the Manitoba Winter Fair gives producers the opportunity to showcase their operations and the high-quality, sustainably produced pork raised here in Manitoba. 

The winners of this year's Pork Quality Competition:

Grand Champion and 1st Place - Wellwood Colony
Reserve Champion and 2nd Place - Sprucewoods Colony
3rd Place - Boundary Lane Colony

Winning charities benefiting from this year's winners include the Neepawa Hospital and the Hutterian Emergency Aquatic Response Team. 

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In this special episode of The Swine it Podcast Show Canada, marking World Veterinary Day, we welcome Dr. Daniel Gascho, swine production veterinarian and partner at Four Star Veterinary Service. He discusses how farrowing decisions must align with each farm's business model, why labor execution defines protocol outcomes, and how PRRS strategies should be tailored to each operation's health status and market position. Listen now on all major platforms!

"Protocols are only as strong as the labor that executes them, and that final step is what separates a plan on paper from results in the barn."

Meet the guest: Dr. Daniel Gascho / daniel-gascho-4a1bbb242 is a swine production medicine veterinarian and partner at Four Star Veterinary Service, based in Indiana. He focuses on individualized health strategies, vaccination planning, biosecurity, and practical protocol implementation across farrowing, nursery, and grow-finish systems.