Insights and Stories on Livestock

Jan. 7, 2009 at 4:21 pm CST

Nova Scotia’s environment minister has been sworn in as its agriculture minister in Premier Rodney MacDonald’s cabinet shuffle announced Wednesday. Mark Parent, the MLA for Kings North, takes over the agriculture portfolio from Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley MLA Brooke Taylor. Taylor, who owned and operated his own trucking business before becoming a […]

Jan. 7, 2009 at 3:53 pm CST

The now-endangered Newfoundland Pony will be the subject of a new photo archive to preserve the memory of its role in rural development of the province. The Newfoundland and Labrador government announced Wednesday it will work with the Newfoundland Pony Society and Memorial University’s history department to compile a “photographic […]

Jan. 2, 2009 at 5:50 pm CST

Manitoba’s fire commissioner is continuing work toward an updated fire code that will encompass hog barns, after a near-record year for hogs lost to fires. Provincial fire commissioner Doug Popowich told the Manitoba Co-operator in July that his office would recommend the government issue a consultation paper on building and […]

Jan. 2, 2009 at 5:06 pm CST

Extra provincial field staff who were hired to help Alberta cattle producers age-verify their 2008 calf crop will continue on the job until the end of March. Alberta’s agriculture department said in a bulletin Friday that over 30 additional department staff, as well as 30 part-time staff from the industry-owned […]

Dec. 24, 2008 at 2:48 pm CST

Canada’s horse industry has been asked to halt imports of U.S. breeding stock, embryos or semen while inspectors check farms that may have used semen infected with a contagious reproductive disease. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) on Wednesday confirmed that farms in Ontario and Alberta received semen this spring […]