Hog industry develops hiring handbook
Manitoba Pork has developed a new hiring handbook to help producers find, hire and retain workers.
The organization surveyed independent pork producers to assess the challenges they faced in hiring as well as identifying possible solutions.
Survey questions included finding workers, retention problems, the foreign worker program, salaries and training.
The handbook, which will be available this summer, includes information about screening resumes, reference checking, interview questions and where producers can advertise.
It also includes examples of letters of offer and regret letters to unsuccessful candidates and addresses job orientation and what the new worker needs to know before entering the barn.
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Angus group recognizes auction market
The Canadian Angus 2015 Auction Market of the Year Award was recently presented to Cowtown Livestock Exchange of Maple Creek, Sask.
The 35-year-old locally owned company sells more than 50,000 head a year. Its capacity is 4,000 head of cattle with 50 feed and water pens.
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Program raises money for food bank
Olds College and the Mountain View Food Bank are collaborating to address the increasing demand for food in the community.
The college will support the food bank by donating campus resources and promoting the initiative to its stakeholder network.
The college and the food bank will encourage beef donations to the food bank, which students from the college’s National Meat Training Centre will process.
The goal is to fill 259 hampers a month, including three pounds of donated hamburger. This would require a donation of two animals per month.
Processing will cost roughly $150 per animal, which covers the cost of wrapping and government-mandated labelling. The food bank will need cash donations to cover these costs.
The Mountain View Food Bank Society has operating since 1987 and helps more than 250 families a month. It says there has been a 20 percent increase this year in requests for food hampers.
The food bank will provide tax receipts based on the market value of the donated animal.
