Insights and Stories on Livestock

Nov. 17, 2008 at 1:43 pm CST

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency doesn’t expect the discovery of Canada’s 15th case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or mad cow disease) to affect exports of Canadian cattle or beef. CFIA on Monday confirmed BSE in a seven-year-old B.C. dairy cow, which was found through the national BSE surveillance program. […]

Nov. 13, 2008 at 7:17 pm CST

A pilot program for farmers who have signed onto the Canada-Ontario Environmental Farm Plan will offer incentives for them to improve protection for wild species at risk on their land. The province on Thursday said it will put up $800,000 for the pilot program, with the Ontario Federation of Agriculture […]

Nov. 13, 2008 at 6:09 pm CST

The executive director of the Dairy Farmers of Canada has been elected president of the International Dairy Federation. Richard Doyle, the DFC’s Ottawa-based executive director, was named to a four-year term as IDF president, succeeding Jim Begg, director general of Dairy UK. The election was held Tuesday during the World […]

Nov. 13, 2008 at 1:28 am CST

The host venue for Canadian Western Agribition and the Western Canada Farm Progress Show has been re-rebranded. Regina Exhibition Park, which was rebranded Ipsco Place in 2006 when the steel firm bought the naming rights to the 102-acre park, became Evraz Place effective Wednesday. The park’s latest rebranding follows the […]

Nov. 12, 2008 at 6:44 pm CST

Makers of canned pet foods can expect a “major” increase in the price of cans in 2009, forcing them to either eat the cost or raise prices, Menu Foods warns in its latest quarterly report. The beleaguered Toronto pet food maker is in what it calls a “rebuilding year,” following […]