CANADA - The General Manager of Manitoba Pork reports the province's pork industry is seeing the first signs of a rebound in the number of hogs available for processing, writes Bruce Cochrane.Over the past decade a combination of factors has led to a decline in the number of hogs produced in Manitoba resulting in challenges for the province's pork processing plants in accessing the numbers of slaughter hogs necessary to operate at capacity.Andrew Dickson, the General manager of Manitoba Pork, reports the numbers of pigs on farms, have crept up a little bit so we're back to where we were back in about 2006 in terms of numbers of animals on farms, productivity continues to improve and we've got producers now thinking of expanding their operations.

　　布鲁斯·科克伦(Bruce Cochrane)写道，据加拿大曼尼托巴省猪肉协会总经理称，从屠宰生猪的数目来看，曼尼托巴省的养猪业看到首席个生产反弹迹象。在过去十年，多种因素交织，导致曼尼托巴省生产的生猪数目减少，让该省想要满负荷运行的猪肉加工场在接收出栏生猪数量上遇到挑战。曼尼托巴省猪肉协会总经理安德鲁·迪克森(Andrew Dickson)说：“养猪场的生猪数目已经往上爬了一点，以至于让我们归到了我们曾在2016年达到的数目水平。而且生产力正不断提高，我们的生产商也在考虑扩张生产。”