Insights and Stories on Livestock

Alberta appoints board and chair of new meat agency

Jul. 3, 2008 at 1:38 pm CDT

The Alberta government’s strategy to revitalize the provincial livestock and meat industry has reached its first major milestone by naming the chair and the initial board members of the Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency (ALMA). Joe Makowecki, President of Heritage Frozen Foods, has been appointed as the first chair of […]

Ont. farm premises registry goes live

Jul. 2, 2008 at 2:02 pm CDT

By FBC staff

B.C. BSE case was five-year-old dairy cow

Jun. 27, 2008 at 4:17 pm CDT

By FBC staff

XL Foods to buy Lakeside Packers

Jun. 26, 2008 at 1:34 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Food prices not yet seen cutting beef demand

Jun. 26, 2008 at 12:54 pm CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

Financing lined up for E. coli vaccine plant

Jun. 25, 2008 at 6:14 pm CDT

An Ontario firm’s planned scale-up of production for an E. coli vaccine for cattle is now fully financed, the company announced Wednesday. Pharmaceutical firm Bioniche Life Sciences of Belleville said it has picked up an extension on a pre-existing $7.6 million contribution agreement with Industry Canada from its Industrial Technologies […]

By FBC staff

Better certificates boost pork access to Russia

Jun. 24, 2008 at 11:57 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Enhanced security features on Canadian meat certificates played an important role in recently improving Canada’s access to Russian pork markets, federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said Tuesday. Ritz was in Russia to participate in a meeting of the Russia-Canada agriculture working group of the Intergovernmental Economic […]

By Alana Vannahme

Hagen renamed B.C. ag minister in shuffle

Jun. 23, 2008 at 6:06 pm CDT

A former British Columbia agriculture minister will take on the portfolio again in a cabinet shuffle Monday by Premier Gordon Campbell. Comox Valley MLA Stan Hagen, who has been Campbell’s minister for tourism, sport and the arts since 2006, takes over from Pat Bell as minister of agriculture and lands. […]

By FBC staff

Canada’s 13th mad cow found in B.C.

Jun. 23, 2008 at 5:10 pm CDT

Few details have been released so far about Canada’s 13th case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), found in a cow in British Columbia. Details not yet available Monday in the CFIA’s announcement include the animal’s age, and the area of the province where it was found. The Canadian Food Inspection […]

By FBC staff

Man. pork co-op to shut assembly yard

Jun. 23, 2008 at 4:52 pm CDT

The Manitoba Pork Marketing Co-op plans to close its St. Boniface hog assembly yard this Friday after 43 years, as it plans a new location on Winnipeg’s outskirts. And in light of lower operating costs as a result, the co-op said it will lower its marketing fee starting July 7. […]

By FBC staff