Insights and Stories on Livestock

Feed sales down in Ridley’s Q1

Nov. 12, 2008 at 2:06 pm CST

First-quarter profits are up for feed maker Ridley Inc., but no thanks to its feed operations, which took nearly a 10 per cent drop in sales from the same time last year. The feed company, with headquarters in Winnipeg and in Minnesota, posted net earnings of $2.93 million on $169.3 […]

Momentum, but no beef deal yet with Korea

Nov. 11, 2008 at 4:32 am CST

NOFG audit rips P.E.I. government oversight

Nov. 8, 2008 at 4:42 am CST

Feed ration suspected in BSE Case 13

Nov. 8, 2008 at 2:58 am CST

Alta. to offer prizes for ag innovations

Nov. 8, 2008 at 1:37 am CST

Viterra names new livestock services VP

Nov. 7, 2008 at 1:58 am CST

The man in charge of port terminals for Canada’s biggest grain company is now its vice-president of livestock and feed services. Bill Mooney, the director of terminals for Viterra, takes over the new post effective immediately and will operate out of the company’s Okotoks, Alta. office, Viterra announced Thursday. Mooney […]

Maple Leaf names new safety chief

Nov. 5, 2008 at 7:14 pm CST

The head of the research arm of the American Meat Institute will be the chief food safety officer for Maple Leaf Foods. Randy Huffman will take his new post Jan. 5, reporting to the Toronto meat processing giant’s CEO, Michael McCain. Huffman is currently president of the AMI Foundation, the […]

Premium Brands eats impact of meat recall

Nov. 5, 2008 at 6:39 pm CST

Food processing firm Premium Brands says it was able to post a record quarter in spite of the blow to consumer confidence from Maple Leaf Foods’ major meat recall this summer. The Richmond, B.C. income fund, formerly known as Fletcher’s Fine Foods, with specialty food and distribution businesses across Western […]

N.S. plans tax break for conservation land use

Nov. 5, 2008 at 5:43 pm CST

The Nova Scotia government has introduced new legislation calling for a property tax exemption on private land used for conservation. The proposed Conservation Property Tax Exemption Act would make landowners eligible for an exemption, encouraging them to protect their land by taking away the financial disadvantage from a property tax […]

U.S. sees Canada as growth market for DDGS

Nov. 5, 2008 at 5:05 pm CST

(Resource News International) — Since the boom in the U.S. biofuel industry, U.S. supplies of distillers dried grains, a co-product of ethanol production, have grown significantly and U.S. exporters have been looking north to a large and growing market for their feed alternative. At the recent United States Grain Council’s […]

By Alana Vannahme