Insights and Stories of GFM Staff

Beef cattle producers seek new set-aside plan

Apr. 15, 2020 at 10:12 pm CDT

Canada’s beef cattle producer groups and federal Conservatives want to see the revival of a BSE-era program to hold cattle back against the risk of further lost options for slaughter. The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association on Monday hearkened back to its March 24 list of recommendations to the federal government for […]

Cigi, Cereals Canada vote to close merger deal

Apr. 14, 2020 at 3:21 pm CDT

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Beef Farmers of Ontario ask for curb on cull sales

Apr. 13, 2020 at 10:19 pm CDT

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Cargill halts second shift at High River beef plant

Apr. 13, 2020 at 8:07 pm CDT

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Federal government to backstop TFW isolation with funding

Apr. 13, 2020 at 1:43 pm CDT

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Quebec pork plant to restart at reduced pace

Apr. 12, 2020 at 2:16 am CDT

Olymel plans to gradually bring a hog plant in Quebec’s Mauricie region out of a two-week shutdown starting Tuesday following a number of COVID-19 cases among its employees. The meat packing arm of Quebec-based Sollio Co-operative Group announced Saturday it will resume slaughter and cutting operations at Yamachiche, Que. starting […]

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Zoetis buys livestock data management firm

Apr. 11, 2020 at 1:19 am CDT

The producer of livestock drugs such as Draxxin, Bovatec and Excede is buying space in the “precision livestock farming” market with a deal for a U.S. livestock data management firm. New Jersey-based Zoetis, which makes drugs and vaccines for the beef and dairy cattle, equine, swine, poultry and sheep sectors […]

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Alberta, Ontario open online portals for domestic ag work

Apr. 9, 2020 at 11:15 pm CDT

The Alberta and Ontario governments hope to set up “land armies” of available domestic workers to deploy on their provinces’ farms, in the event that seasonal and temporary foreign workers are unavailable. Both provinces this week announced they have set up online portals where residents can connect with farmers in […]

By GFM Staff

Low-path H7N3 bird flu believed to have gone high-path in U.S.

Apr. 9, 2020 at 7:47 pm CDT

A low-pathogenicity (“low-path”) strain of H7N3 avian influenza that recently turned up in turkeys in the southeastern U.S. appears to have gone high-path. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) on Thursday confirmed highly-pathogenic H7N3 avian flu in a commercial turkey flock in Chesterfield County, […]

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Maple Leaf poultry plant shuts for ‘deep cleaning’

Apr. 8, 2020 at 2:13 pm CDT

One of two Maple Leaf Foods plants at Brampton, Ont. has gone into shutdown mode for “deep cleaning” in the wake of three cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus among its workers. Toronto-based Maple Leaf announced Wednesday that operations at the company’s Kennedy Road poultry slaughter and packing plant in Brampton […]

By GFM Staff