Insights and Stories on Livestock

CFIA eyes funding cut for BSE sample tests

Jul. 18, 2008 at 11:42 am CDT

(Resource News International) — The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has considered cutting funding to a BSE sampling program that provides reimbursement to farmers who submit suspected animals for testing. But a CFIA official stressed that the proposal was simply that, and will not be implemented any time soon. Freeman Libby, […]

Release food inspection plan now: Liberals

Jul. 17, 2008 at 6:08 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Supreme Court allows BSE lawsuit: report

Jul. 17, 2008 at 5:42 pm CDT

By FBC staff

P.E.I. cuts farm building assessments

Jul. 17, 2008 at 2:58 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Alta. bison wanted to test mobile abattoir

Jul. 17, 2008 at 2:38 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Milk price hikes defeat sector growth: GMC

Jul. 16, 2008 at 2:52 pm CDT

Efforts to grow Canada’s dairy sector are likely to be stymied as long as dairy producers can simply raise the price they get for industrial milk, according to a new report from the George Morris Centre. The Canadian Dairy Commission on July 11 approved an unscheduled $1.45 per hectolitre increase […]

By FBC staff

Alta. names MLAs to land-use committee

Jul. 16, 2008 at 11:46 am CDT

Long-term tasks outlined in Alberta’s new Land-Use Framework will be spearheaded by a new committee of MLAs, the provincial government announced Tuesday. Evan Berger, the MLA for Livingstone-Macleod, parliamentary assistant for sustainable resource development and a former reeve of the M.D. of Willow Creek, will chair the committee. The committee’s […]

By FBC staff

Lallemand opens Montreal probiotic feed lab

Jul. 15, 2008 at 5:10 pm CDT

Montreal feed additive firm Lallemand Animal Nutrition has opened a new centre of excellence in ruminant research to develop next-generation probiotics for livestock. The company, whose parent specializes in developing yeast- and bacteria-based products for the feed, pharmaceutical, baking and winemaking industries, opened the centre at Montreal’s Biotechnology Research Institute […]

By FBC staff

Quebec to flow culled pork to food banks

Jul. 14, 2008 at 5:31 pm CDT

The Quebec government will put up $400,000 to direct 300,000 kg of pork from hogs slaughtered through the federal cull program to 18 food banks in the province. Dr. Alain Poirier, the province’s director of public health, said in a release Monday that while the $50 million federal program covers […]

By FBC staff

Aleutian disease funds in for Nfld. ranchers

Jul. 11, 2008 at 3:36 pm CDT

Mink ranchers in Newfoundland and Labrador can now apply for funding to improve on-farm biosecurity under a provincial Aleutian disease management program. “Under this program, eligible operators can access up to $200,000 to implement biosecurity measures to manage and/or protect against Aleutian disease,” said Kathy Dunderdale, minister for the provincial […]

By FBC staff