Insights and Stories on Livestock

May. 6, 2009 at 1:52 am CDT

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has confirmed that the influenza virus found in hogs at a now-quarantined farm in central Alberta is the novel human strain of the H1N1 flu. The situation on the Alberta farm has been “isolated and contained,” federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and U.S. Agriculture Secretary […]

May. 6, 2009 at 1:18 am CDT

A Manitoba hog production firm has signed a deal to buy agrifood giant Cargill’s feed mill at Swift Current in southwestern Saskatchewan for an undisclosed sum. New Generation (NG) Pork Finishing Inc. and Cargill Animal Nutrition, the company’s Winnipeg-based Canadian feed production arm, expect to close their deal by May […]

May. 6, 2009 at 12:28 am CDT

With approvals in place for the $27 million settlement of what Maple Leaf Foods calls the largest human food contamination class action in Canada’s history, Canadians now have until Nov. 2 to file claims for a piece of the settlement fund. Courts in Saskatchewan, Ontario and Quebec have approved the […]

May. 4, 2009 at 5:57 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — The placing of restrictions on Canadian pork products by numerous countries because of an outbreak of swine flu on a small Alberta hog operation was deemed totally unnecessary and was viewed more as opportunistic. “There is no threat to the safety of food in Canada,” said […]

By Dwayne Klassen

May. 4, 2009 at 1:25 am CDT

A herd of reportedly over 2,000 hogs in Alberta has been placed under quarantine with what the Canadian Food Inspection Agency suspects to be the H1N1 virus that has so far sickened over 100 people in Canada. “It is highly probable that the pigs were exposed to the virus from […]