Insights and Stories on Livestock

Provincial courts approve Menu Foods deal

Nov. 27, 2008 at 7:48 pm CST

Courts in nine provinces have given final approval to a deal that will settle over 100 proposed class actions against Toronto pet food maker Menu Foods. The company’s proposed settlement was already approved last month in a U.S. federal district court and went to a hearing in courts in all […]

Sask. pledges “100 per cent” high-speed coverage

Nov. 26, 2008 at 5:55 pm CST

Manitoba, IBM draft “digital passport” for food

Nov. 25, 2008 at 5:54 pm CST

Sask. ramps up Agribition sponsorship

Nov. 25, 2008 at 5:07 pm CST

MLAs vote for rodeo as Alta.’s official sport

Nov. 25, 2008 at 3:44 pm CST

Manitoba brings back animal care act

Nov. 24, 2008 at 6:51 pm CST

Manitoba’s government has reintroduced amendments to its Animal Care Act that are meant to put the brakes on shipments of unfit livestock. Most of the amendments, which were first introduced during the legislature’s last session in September and were reintroduced Monday, are meant to crack down on unlicensed dog and […]

B.C., Que. farmers earn “outstanding” title

Nov. 24, 2008 at 6:22 pm CST

A dairy farming couple from Vancouver Island and a pair of southeastern Quebec hog producers are Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers for 2008. The awards were presented Friday afternoon in Calgary to David and Lisa Taylor of Viewfield Farms at Courtenay, B.C., and to Lyne Groleau and Marco Couture of Porcherie […]

Ont. names hog industry advisory committee

Nov. 22, 2008 at 4:35 am CST

A committee has been named to steer Ontario’s hog industry past Ontario Pork’s single desk and into a new marketing system. “We’ve established the Ontario Hog Industry Advisory Committee (HIAC) to help Ontario Pork Producers’ Marketing Board transition to a new hog marketing environment in which producers will have more […]

Sask. grants deferrals on livestock loans

Nov. 21, 2008 at 2:44 pm CST

The Saskatchewan government will give cattle and hog producers the option to defer principal payments owed on loans under its short-term cattle and hog loan programs. Hog producers will have the option to defer the principal portion of the first payment from May 2009, to May 2010, the province said […]

Sask. pork plant plans still proceeding

Nov. 20, 2008 at 4:29 pm CST

(Resource News International) — The chairman of the Saskatchewan Slaughter Plant Initiative says the group continues to move ahead with plans to construct a one million-head-per-year hog slaughter plant to open by next fall “We know that the best time to start production is the fall, to open when the […]

By Alana Vannahme