Insights and Stories on Livestock

WTO body rips EU ban on Canadian beef

Mar. 31, 2008 at 4:18 pm CDT

A World Trade Organization panel has found the European Union’s ban on Canadian and U.S. beef to be inconsistent with the bloc’s WTO obligations, but doesn’t let Canada off the hook for its retaliation. The EU since 1989 has banned Canadian and U.S. beef from hormone-treated cattle, while the two […]

Flax processing among dairy projects funded

Mar. 28, 2008 at 2:09 pm CDT

By FBC staff

NAFTA partners standardize breeding cattle trade

Mar. 27, 2008 at 6:16 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Man. pork council “pauses” research funding

Mar. 27, 2008 at 5:27 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Ont. to flow communities funding toward farms

Mar. 27, 2008 at 5:04 pm CDT

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Quebec ag receipts up in 2007: ISQ

Mar. 25, 2008 at 5:18 pm CDT

Farm cash receipts in Quebec were up 9.3 per cent in 2007 over 2006, the provincial statistician reported Tuesday. The province’s farmers posted receipts of $6.77 billion in the last calendar year, l’Institut de la statistique du Quebec (ISQ) said. That’s up $574.9 million, about half of which comes from […]

By FBC staff

Marketing funded for dairy test kits

Mar. 25, 2008 at 4:24 pm CDT

A new diagnostic kit to test vitamin A and D content in fortified milk and other dairy products will get almost $1 million in federal funding to help see it through the marketing phase. SciMed Technologies of Edmonton has developed VitaKit A and VitaKit D, which the company says will […]

By FBC staff

Sask. to fund ag water projects

Mar. 20, 2008 at 7:10 pm CDT

Saskatchewan’s provincial budget calls for a new $6 million farm and ranch water infrastructure fund to deal with “long-standing water supply issues” in parts of the province. The historically dry southwestern part of the province was mentioned in particular in the province’s press release, part of a series of releases […]

By FBC staff

Cattlemen name new president, VP

Mar. 20, 2008 at 12:01 am CDT

The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association has officially installed Brad Wildeman of Lanigan, Sask., as its new president and Tony Saretsky of Ponoka, Alta., as its vice-president. The CCA’s board of directors held elections for the posts during the association’s annual general meeting last week in Ottawa. Wildeman, who heads Pound-Maker AgVentures, […]

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Quebec flock culled for scrapie

Mar. 19, 2008 at 4:29 pm CDT

A cull of “high-risk animals” is underway on a farm in Quebec’s Rimouski district after a sheep in a small herd was confirmed last month with scrapie. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) confirmed both the cull and a quarantine on the farm in a statement Wednesday. The agency said […]

By FBC staff