Insights and Stories on Livestock

Editors’ Picks: USDA boss wants stricter COOL

Feb. 18, 2009 at 6:02 pm CST

The U.S. government’s relaxed rules for mandatory country-of-origin labeling (COOL), which led Canada to set aside a planned trade challenge, have earned a frosty reception from the incoming U.S. administration. President Barack Obama’s agriculture secretary, Tom Vilsack, said in a conference call Tuesday with U.S. consumer groups, farm groups and […]

Saudi Arabia reopens to Canadian boneless beef

Feb. 18, 2009 at 2:28 am CST

Alta. ranchers urged to insure feed supplies

Feb. 18, 2009 at 2:12 am CST

Commons ag committee to run own listeria probe

Feb. 17, 2009 at 6:16 pm CST

Cattle, hog, sheep inventories all drop: StatsCan

Feb. 17, 2009 at 5:21 pm CST

By Statistics Canada

Second infected B.C. farm’s birds destroyed

Feb. 15, 2009 at 10:48 am CST

All the birds on a second commercial poultry farm in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley have been destroyed following Wednesday’s confirmation of an H5 type of avian flu on the property. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said in a release Saturday that the second farm’s birds were “humanely destroyed” and would […]

Prairie beef co-op gets “sustainable” certification

Feb. 14, 2009 at 1:13 am CST

A ranchers’ beef co-operative in Alberta and Saskatchewan has picked up certification from a U.S. group for meeting a long list of social and environmental standards for their product. Food Alliance Certification Co-operative, based in Portland, Ore., has given Prairie Heritage Producers its certification for “sustainably-produced” beef. Prairie Heritage becomes […]

Bird flu found in another B.C. flock

Feb. 12, 2009 at 3:30 am CST

Less than three weeks after H5N2 avian flu appeared in a commercial turkey flock in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley, a neighbouring flock has been confirmed with avian flu. This second flock had been tested within a ring of surveillance for three km all around the Abbotsford-area turkey farm where low-pathogenic […]

Quebec extends traceability rules to cervids

Feb. 12, 2009 at 1:38 am CST

Farmed cervids such as elk, deer and moose are to be covered under Quebec’s livestock ID and traceability regulations by the end of this month. Provincial Agriculture Minister Laurent Lessard said Wednesday that he would amend the regulations, which first included cattle in 2002 and was amended to include sheep […]

Tight U.S. market to shut Cargill feed mill

Feb. 11, 2009 at 6:07 pm CST

Citing costs and restrictions making the U.S. feed market uncompetitive, the Canadian wing of U.S. agrifood giant Cargill plans to stop production at a southwestern Ontario feed plant. Winnipeg-based Cargill Ltd. announced Tuesday it will “cease” operations at its animal feed production mill at Arkona, Ont., about 55 km west […]

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