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Annual food contest has new category for alcoholic beverages

Jul. 24, 2017 at 2:04 pm CDT

Aspiring Manitoba entrepreneurs with creative ideas for new foods or alcoholic beverages are invited to enter the 11th annual Great Manitoba Food Fight (GMFF), Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler announced yesterday “Manitoba is home to many budding entrepreneurs with a passion for food and drink and the skill to create innovative […]

Small hive beetle appears in New Brunswick

Jul. 24, 2017 at 10:28 am CDT

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Olymel to expand Quebec sausage plant

Jul. 24, 2017 at 1:38 am CDT

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Chicken farmers to expand phase-out of antibiotics

Jul. 23, 2017 at 8:10 pm CDT

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B.C. NDP’s ag critic named ag minister

Jul. 23, 2017 at 5:04 am CDT

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Ministers agree on new ag funding framework

Jul. 23, 2017 at 1:46 am CDT

Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial ministers for agriculture have agreed on the bones of a new five-year policy funding framework, committing them to a review of its business risk management (BRM) programming. The ministers came out of three days of meetings Friday in St. John’s with the “key elements” of […]

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Nilsson Bros. to buy back JBS feedlot for $50 million

Jul. 14, 2017 at 5:29 pm CDT

Scandal-plagued Brazilian meat packing giant JBS’s plans to sell off non-core assets will see its major cattle feedlot in southern Alberta sold back to its previous owner. JBS USA announced Friday its JBS Food Canada arm has reached a deal to sell Lakeside Feeders, its cattle feedlot and “adjacent farmland” […]

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BCCA connecting ranchers, haulers in wildfire areas

Jul. 11, 2017 at 12:16 pm CDT

Livestock producers needing to move animals out of wildfire zones in British Columbia’s Interior are being asked to contact the B.C. Cattlemen’s Association. The BCCA, on its website, said it’s helping to co-ordinate haulers with producers who need to evacuate livestock. “With closures of highways and evacuation orders, permits are […]

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Olymel plans sausage production at Red Deer

Jul. 10, 2017 at 7:23 pm CDT

New equipment and refrigerated storage are going into Olymel’s Alberta pork processing plant at Red Deer as the facility gets into the sausage business. Pork and poultry processor Olymel, owned mainly by Quebec agribusiness co-operative La Coop federee, announced Monday it will put up $2 million to convert a section […]

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Saskatchewan sets new cougar, bear trapping seasons

Jul. 10, 2017 at 3:33 am CDT

Saskatchewan has set up a new cougar season for trappers, plus a southern expansion of its black bear trapping season, in part to help limit livestock predation. The province on Wednesday announced a new “trapping-only” cougar season will open Oct. 15, 2017 and close March 15, 2018. It also announced […]

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