Raising the Hogs the Market Wants

195516 minFilm: Documentary

Direction: Julian Biggs

Production: Julian BiggsDavid Bairstow

Produced by the National Film Board of Canada for the Canadian Department of Agriculture.

Filmed at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, this film shows improved hog breeding methods. Two specialists explain the feeding and management programs developed to ensure production of the lean, bacon-type quality hogs which bring top prices from meat packers and produce the pork products the public will buy.

Other versions

Des porcs qui se vendront bien

Subject categories

  • Animals > Agricultural LivestockResearch, Evolution and Animal Behaviour
  • Food and Food Industries > Beef and Pork
  • Agriculture > LivestockOntarioResearch

Credits

director
Julian Biggs
producer
Julian Biggs
narrator
Julian Biggs
executive producer
David Bairstow
photography
Reginald Morris
sound
Marcel Carrière