Insights and Stories on Livestock

CFIA orders testing on Chinese feed ingredients

Oct. 17, 2008 at 3:38 pm CDT

Dairy ingredients and soybean meal coming from China for use in Canadian livestock feed now must be tested for melamine. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency, working with the Canada Border Services Agency, ordered the new testing regime for such products on Friday, “effective immediately,” looking both for melamine and for […]

Ont. sees uptake in manure biogas funding

Oct. 17, 2008 at 1:41 pm CDT

Canada, U.S. claim WTO win over EU on beef

Oct. 16, 2008 at 8:40 pm CDT

Sask. offers rebates on gopher poisons

Oct. 16, 2008 at 8:02 pm CDT

U.S. court approves Menu Foods settlement

Oct. 15, 2008 at 3:08 pm CDT

New margarine too buttery for Quebec: report

Oct. 14, 2008 at 5:41 pm CDT

Unilever’s new margarine, Becel Gold with Buttery Taste, may have crossed the line in Quebec’s food labelling laws, according to an interview with Agriculture Minister Laurent Lessard in the farm newspaper La Terre de Chez Nous. In an article Tuesday on the newspaper’s website, Lessard said he has asked the […]

Korea to resume beef talks: report

Oct. 14, 2008 at 12:06 pm CDT

South Korea plans to reopen negotiations with Canada on beef imports early next month, the Yonhap news agency reported Sunday, quoting “Seoul officials.” The decision comes almost a year after talks between the two countries were suspended, Yonhap said. Before Korea closed to Canadian beef in 2003, Canada was the […]

S. Ont. farmers eligible for wetland funding

Oct. 10, 2008 at 5:56 pm CDT

Ontario’s natural resources ministry (MNR) and Ducks Unlimited Canada will put up $1 million over two years for a plan to help rural southern Ontario landowners with protection and upkeep of wetland habitats. Under the Ontario Wetland Care program, announced Friday as part of the “Healthy Wetlands, Healthy Communities II” […]

Hog sector braves financial storm, for now

Oct. 10, 2008 at 5:15 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Financial uncertainty gripping the international markets could also take its toll on the Canadian hog sector, according to market sources, who noted that prices have declined over the past month. Lower feed grain costs and a weaker Canadian dollar are, however, helping boost the profitability of […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Listeria found again at Maple Leaf plant

Oct. 9, 2008 at 2:12 am CDT

Just a few weeks after deep-cleaning and reopening to a far heavier testing regime, Maple Leaf Foods’ Bartor Road meat processing plant in Toronto has yielded a few product samples contaminated with listeria. Listeria monocytogenes was detected in four positive test results out of over 2,700 product samples reported to […]

By FBC staff