Insights and Stories on Livestock

Apr. 15, 2009 at 11:05 pm CDT

Alberta’s provincial ag financing agency has raised its bar for how much a farmer or agribusiness can borrow. Agriculture Financial Services Corp. (AFSC) on Wednesday said it has increased the maximum loan or guarantee it provides to any individual or entity to a “cumulative total” of $5 million, up from […]

Apr. 15, 2009 at 5:13 pm CDT

The Newfoundland and Labrador government will put up over $170,000 to expand the Centre for Agrifood Development at the College of the North Atlantic. The centre, at CNA’s Carbonear campus, about 110 km west of St. John’s, will get $170,720 from the province’s Innovation Enhancement Program (IEP) to add a […]

Apr. 14, 2009 at 5:39 pm CDT

The Saskatchewan government plans to ramp up its efforts to shed the assets of its cash-losing meat processing plant at Melfort. “We believe that government has no role in owning a meat processing plant,” Ag Minister Bob Bjornerud said in a release Tuesday, announcing the province’s plans to find buyers […]

By Dave Bedard

Apr. 13, 2009 at 2:12 pm CDT

An audit of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s ability to serve farmers in both official languages finds many of its offices in Western Canada lacking. Graham Fraser, the federal commissioner of official languages, on March 30 released the results of his audit of AAFC, conducted between November 2006 and November 2007. […]

Apr. 13, 2009 at 1:50 am CDT

Ontario Pork’s first female chair and a number of new directors will lead the organization while a major overhaul of its mandate waits in the wings, pending hog farmers’ appeals. Previously the director for Zone B (Districts 7-12), Wilma Jeffray of Bruce County was elected last week as chair for […]