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Pork Quality Competition to Highlight Brandon Hog and Livestock Show
Ron Bazylo - Manitoba Agriculture

Farmscape for November 23, 2017

Brandon Hog and Livestock Show organizers report the field of entries for the 2017 Pork Quality Competition is now close to its limit.
The 2017 Pork Quality Completion awards presentation will highlight the Brandon Hog and Livestock Show set for December 14 in Brandon.
The registration deadline is November 30 and there is space for a maximum of 30 entries.
Ron Bazylo, an Industry Development Specialist with Manitoba Agriculture and a member of the Brandon Hog & Livestock Show organizing committee says entries must be delivered to East 40 packers in Brandon by 10:00 am December 11 for processing and judging.

Clip-Ron Bazylo-Manitoba Agriculture:
When we receive them we give each individual animal its own number and that number is only known to myself and another person that helps me tattoo them.
That way, when they are judged, there's no way the judge knows which animal comes from which farm, so it's very good in that respect,
When we judge the animals we look at the color of the meat, the back fat and the loin areas.
There's about 10 or more criteria that we judge them by and each attribute that we judge for is given a score from between one and five or one and ten, depending on the importance of the attribute we're judging at that time.
We have a judge that is very experienced in this regard so it's a very good competition and it's very close, I have to admit, between the farms.
There's not much point difference from 1st to the 30th place so it's very competitive.
I'd have to say the producers are very good at selecting the animals that would grade very well in the market place.

Bazylo notes the number of entries is getting close to the limit.
For more information visit hogdaysbrandon.ca.
For Farmscape.Ca, I'm Bruce Cochrane.


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