Insights and Stories on Livestock

Calculator to gauge horses’ disease risks

Oct. 8, 2008 at 10:27 pm CDT

The University of Guelph’s horse health centre plans to launch an online calculator program with which horse owners can pencil out the impact of their farm practices on their animals’ risk of infectious disease. Equine Guelph, in a notice on its website, said it plans to unveil what it calls […]

COOL confusion costs producers: CCA, CPC

Oct. 7, 2008 at 6:22 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Alta. ships PID forms for AFRP II funding

Oct. 7, 2008 at 6:06 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Sask. boosts water funding for dry southwest

Oct. 7, 2008 at 5:52 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Editors’ Picks: Testicular cuisine goes online

Oct. 7, 2008 at 4:59 pm CDT

By FBC staff

CFIA caps melamine in Chinese milk imports

Oct. 7, 2008 at 3:31 pm CDT

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has set interim standards to limit the amount of melamine in imported foods that contain milk or milk products from China. CFIA announced in a memo to importers Monday that it will require documentation to prove product safety. Any imports of baby food or infant […]

By FBC staff

Ontario Pork out as single-desk hog marketer

Oct. 7, 2008 at 1:32 am CDT

Ontario Pork has until Dec. 1 to come up with a new structure and governance model to match its new role in hog marketing in Ontario. That role, announced Monday in a decision by the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Commission, will be to “represent, and collect license fees from, producers […]

By FBC staff

Equipment funding extended for VBP participants

Oct. 6, 2008 at 1:11 pm CDT

Cattle producers taking part in a Verified Beef Production (VBP) workshop now have until Dec. 31 to apply for funding to purchase equipment via the Canadian Food Safety and Quality Program. The federal agriculture department has extended the deadline to allow more producers to take advantage of the funding available, […]

By FBC staff

Quebec to back beleaguered cheese industry

Oct. 3, 2008 at 6:37 pm CDT

Quebec’s cheese industry, fighting an uphill marketing battle against a recent listeria crisis of its own, will get $8.4 million in provincial support over the next three years for development. The cash will go to fund the province’s five-point plan for development and economic growth in the province’s fine cheese […]

By FBC staff

Alberta’s ALMA launches web site

Oct. 3, 2008 at 5:21 pm CDT

Alberta’s provincial Livestock and Meat Agency (ALMA), has opened up its new website for information on programs coming up as part of the province’s livestock and meat strategy. The site features updates on livestock and meat sector competitiveness initiatives and information about the Alberta Livestock and Meat Strategy (ALMS) and […]

By FBC staff