Insights and Stories on Livestock

Sask. Ag probes “financial irregularity”

Jul. 11, 2008 at 12:43 pm CDT

Saskatchewan’s agriculture ministry has fired an employee and called in the RCMP as it investigates a $20,000 “financial irregularity.” The ministry gave few details in a statement Thursday, other than to say one employee had been dismissed and preliminary results of its own internal investigation show the estimated total amount […]

Canadian Pork Council names new president

Jul. 10, 2008 at 2:39 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Que. ag venture capital agency antes up

Jul. 10, 2008 at 2:25 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Costs call for higher milk prices now: DFC

Jul. 7, 2008 at 6:01 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Time to give on supply management: Chamber

Jul. 4, 2008 at 11:51 pm CDT

By FBC staff

OTM rule sent back for comment: report

Jul. 4, 2008 at 5:42 pm CDT

The rule that allows older Canadian cattle to enter the U.S. must be reopened for a public comment period, a U.S. district court judge ruled Thursday, according to a report from financial news agency Bloomberg. Bloomberg’s Edvard Pettersson reported Thursday that U.S. District Judge Lawrence Piersol found for the protectionist […]

By FBC staff

Yukon names new minister for farms

Jul. 4, 2008 at 5:21 pm CDT

Yukon Premier Dennis Fentie’s cabinet shuffle Thursday puts a new minister in charge of the territory government’s ag file. Lake Laberge MLA Brad Cathers, who until now has been Fentie’s minister for health and social services, takes over from Archie Lang as minister for energy, mines and resources, a portfolio […]

By FBC staff

Lakeside sale cause for relief: GMC

Jul. 4, 2008 at 12:59 am CDT

Canadian cattle feeders can take a bit of assurance that the Lakeside beef plant at Brooks, Alta., will be in “strong hands” after its sale and may even spur new competition for cattle, according to a new report from the George Morris Centre. In a report released Thursday, the Guelph, […]

By FBC staff

So much Ont. livestock, so little corn: GMC

Jul. 3, 2008 at 11:24 pm CDT

Ontario is producing more cattle and hogs than it has home-grown corn to feed them, making those sectors uncompetitive on a cost basis, the George Morris Centre observes in a new report. The Guelph-based ag think tank on Thursday released a new report that warns those Ontario livestock sectors may […]

By FBC staff

Restaurants pan proposed dairy price hike

Jul. 3, 2008 at 3:00 pm CDT

The Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association (CRFA) is crying foul over a proposed increase in Canadian dairy prices. The group said Thursday that Canadian dairy prices are already among the highest in the world and could rise for the second time in just six months — a move it claims […]

By FBC staff