Insights and Stories on Livestock

Feb. 25, 2009 at 6:45 pm CST

A new viral hoax e-mail in circulation has the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association, the Alberta Cattle Feeders Association and the e-mail’s alleged author stepping up to the defense of McDonald’s Canada. The viral e-mail, which has been posted on a substantial number of publicly available blogs and has been spreading at […]

By Dave Bedard

Feb. 25, 2009 at 2:00 am CST

Hot dogs caught by Maple Leaf Foods’ listeria net were accidentally shipped anyway from a Hamilton processing plant, leading to a relatively small product recall, the company said Tuesday. The recall is for 450-gram packages of Shopsy’s Deli Fresh All Beef frankfurters (product code 20730, UPC 6487520730, best before April […]

Feb. 25, 2009 at 1:17 am CST

Still smarting from last summer’s major deli meat recall, Maple Leaf Foods was nevertheless able to post a smaller net loss for its fourth fiscal quarter (Q4). The Toronto food manufacturing giant on Tuesday reported a net loss of $14.58 million on $1.34 billion in sales for its Q4 ending […]

Feb. 24, 2009 at 5:49 pm CST

Winnipeg (Resource News International) — Canadian hog producers are starting to see some profitability for the first time in over two years, but whether or not those profits stay is seen depending on the value of the Canadian dollar. Analyst Steve Dziver of Winnipeg-based Phoenix Agri-Tec Inc. told the Canadian […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Feb. 23, 2009 at 4:00 pm CST

A report from a council tasked with building Manitoba’s cattle slaughter capacity sees serious risk in flowing federal support to the “already overdeveloped” beef sectors in Alberta and Ontario. Following federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s budget in late January, the Manitoba Cattle Enhancement Council recently released a report on the […]