Insights and Stories on Livestock

Mar. 6, 2009 at 2:53 am CST

A report by the British Columbia government and Abbotsford Chamber of Commerce finds one in four private-sector jobs supported by the ag sector in B.C.’s fifth-largest city. Provincial Agriculture Minister Ron Cantelon on Tuesday released a report that shows farming in the Abbotsford area provides 11,300 full-time jobs. As well, […]

Mar. 6, 2009 at 2:23 am CST

Plans to shut down farm operations at six federal correctional facilities across Canada imply that the federal government considers farming and food production “outmoded and irrelevant,” the National Farmers Union says. Media outlets last week reported that the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) plans to close prison farms at Kingston, […]

Mar. 5, 2009 at 6:34 pm CST

The income tax deferrals offered to Canadian livestock producers on drought-induced breeding stock sales have now been extended to flood-induced sales. Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz announced the expanded deferrals Thursday in Winnipeg, starting with the tax owed by producers in Manitoba’s Interlake and Westlake, the regions west of both […]

Mar. 5, 2009 at 5:07 am CST

Maple Leaf Foods has moved to scotch what it sees as “any inference” that it would have tried to keep information about last summer’s listeria outbreak from the public. The meat processing firm on Wednesday responded to a report by the Canadian Press news agency, which quoted handwritten notes from […]

Mar. 4, 2009 at 3:27 am CST

More livestock producers in all four western provinces will be eligible to defer part of their income taxes from the sale of animals in cases where drought forced a producer’s hand. In four separate press releases Tuesday, the federal government expanded the drought-induced income tax deferral zones to include 48 […]