Farms.com Home   News

Prairies Produce Over 15 Percent Of Canada's Turkeys

 
Thanksgiving weekend is always a busy time with family and friends.
 
For many families, it may include sitting down to a nice roast turkey supper.
 
Canada produces about 21.7 million turkeys or 183.3 million kilograms of eviscerated turkey.
 
Joni Rynsburger Rathwell is the general manager for Turkey Farmers of Saskatchewan and says about 32 million kilograms of eviscerated turkey is produced across the prairies.
 
"Alberta has about 1.9 million turkeys which are about 16.5 million kilograms of eviscerated, Saskatchewan we have about 800,000 which is about 5.6 million kilograms, and in Manitoba, they produce about 1.5 million turkeys or 10.3 million kilograms."
 
Source : Discoverestevan

Trending Video

Episode 82: Keep Your BVD Down

Video: Episode 82: Keep Your BVD Down

Bovine Viral Diarrhea (BVD) is a serious disease that can lead to abortion, infertility, immune suppression, and calf losses. If the virus crosses the placenta in the first four months of gestation, calves may be born persistently infected and shed high levels of the virus throughout their lives—posing a major risk to unvaccinated cattle. In this episode, we explore why it’s critical to keep BVD out of your herd and how different vaccination protocols can help protect your cattle.