Two Saskatchewan hog enterprises closed their public share offerings Dec. 31, 1997. Manitou Hog Enterprises, located near Neilburg, Marsden and Baldwinton, and Bear Hills Pork Producers, near Biggar and Perdue, both ended the public offering of limited partnership units in their farrow-to-finish production facilities.
The Manitou production facility, estimated to cost $12 million, is almost complete and stocking of the barns has begun.
The first farrowing is expected in late January, according to a joint news release by Manitou Hog Enterprises and Heartland Livestock Services.
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Once finished, the facility is expected to produce 1,100 piglets each week. There will be four nursery barns and four finishing barns.
John LaClare, chief operating officer of Heartland, said the operation will create up to 14 full-time jobs in the region.
Manitou is the first of up to 20 hog production facilities Heartland hopes to establish, using its own capital plus equity from local investors. Heartland is a livestock marketing company owned by Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and Manitoba Pool Elevators. Manitou Hog Enterprises is a limited partnership.
The Bear Hills facility is under construction and expected to be ready for hogs this spring, with the same number of barns and piglet production as Manitou.
It also carries a $12 million capital price tag and is expected to create 14 jobs in the region, LaClare said in a news release.
Bear Hills Pork Producers is a limited partnership working with Heartland to establish and operate the facility.
