Insights and Stories on Livestock

N.B. tops up milk prices

Aug. 26, 2008 at 3:04 pm CDT

New Brunswick’s dairy consumers will pay 3.5 cents per litre more for milk beginning Sept. 1, the New Brunswick Farm Products Commission announced Tuesday. “The price adjustment is wholly based on the effects of the rise of fuel costs throughout the supply chain,” chairman Hazen Myers said in a provincial […]

Maple Leaf delays Toronto plant restart

Aug. 26, 2008 at 2:04 am CDT

By FBC staff

BIC plans new beef brand identity

Aug. 25, 2008 at 7:05 pm CDT

By bic-release

CEMA now “Egg Farmers of Canada”

Aug. 25, 2008 at 6:27 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Drenched Man. farmers to get forage aid program

Aug. 25, 2008 at 3:50 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Mexico bans Alberta breeding cattle

Aug. 22, 2008 at 2:31 pm CDT

Mexico has banned imports of breeding cattle from Alberta in the wake of the latest case of BSE discovered in the province last week. The ban does not affect imports of Canadian beef. The federal government was notified of the ban on Wednesday. “They’re (Mexico is) very concerned that if […]

By FBC staff

Sask food banks distributing meat from pig cull

Aug. 22, 2008 at 2:24 pm CDT

Hundreds of low-income families across Saskatchewan are now receiving quality porkas a result of the Saskatchewan portion of a national pork cull. In April the provincial government announced $440,000 in funding to process sows into pork for Saskatchewan Food Banks. The sows were culled as a result of the National […]

StatsCan hog report shows rapid restructuring

Aug. 20, 2008 at 10:51 am CDT

Canada’s hog industry is continuing its record of rapid consolidation according to a report by Statistics Canada that shows one in five hog producers has left the industry since the start of 2008. On January 1 there were 9,725 farms raising hogs in Canada and as of July 1 that […]

By FBC staff

Blue-green algae warning issued in Sask

Aug. 18, 2008 at 2:42 pm CDT

Saskatchewan officials are warning livestock producers and other provincial residents of the dangers of water containing blue-green algae blooms. They’re advising livestock producers and pet owners to keep their animals away from such water and telling the public to avoid swimming in or drinking water that’s been contaminated. Algae blooms […]

Canada’s 14th mad cow found in Alta.

Aug. 15, 2008 at 3:12 pm CDT

A six-year-old beef cow from an Alberta farm is Canada’s 14th case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed Friday. CFIA said in a release that this latest case shouldn’t affect exports of Canadian cattle or beef, though the cow was born well after Ottawa imposed […]

By FBC staff