Insights and Stories on Livestock

Ont. cattlemen name new chief

Feb. 22, 2008 at 3:29 pm CST

The Ontario Cattlemen’s Association has picked Gord Hardy, a Middlesex County feedlot operator, as its new president. Hardy, an OCA director for southern Ontario since 2000 and most recently the beef producer group’s vice-president, replaces Elgin County cow-calf operator Ian McKillop, who stepped down from the president’s chair. Hardy and […]

Man. research to boost forage feeding funded

Feb. 22, 2008 at 2:22 pm CST

By FBC staff

Cost-cutting boosts Maple Leaf’s 2007 ledger

Feb. 22, 2008 at 1:55 pm CST

By FBC staff

Man. offers hog loans, cattle loan deferrals

Feb. 22, 2008 at 3:13 am CST

By FBC staff

Farm products council gets new vice-chair

Feb. 22, 2008 at 1:41 am CST

By FBC staff

Sask. seeks exit from Big Sky hog business

Feb. 21, 2008 at 5:47 pm CST

(Resource News International) —Crown corporation Investment Saskatchewan Inc. (IS) is looking to sell its majority shares in Big Sky Farms Inc. at Humboldt, Sask., according to a Saskatchewan Party official. “It is part of our medium-term plan to sell this asset [Big Sky] when taxpayer returns can be maximized. That […]

By Alana Vannahme

Man. to review livestock veterinary services

Feb. 20, 2008 at 6:08 pm CST

Manitoba has named a task force to review the distribution of — and increased demands on — veterinarians handling livestock in the province. The review will look at how veterinary services are distributed, systems currently in place for early warning and surveillance of both local and foreign animal diseases, and […]

By FBC staff

CFIA drops permits for feeding scraps

Feb. 20, 2008 at 5:47 pm CST

Hog and poultry producers will no longer need a Canadian Food Inspection Agency permit to feed food products such as stale-dated bread, pasteurized milk and vegetable wastes to their livestock, the agency announced Wednesday. The agency has previously issued permits to livestock producers, albeit very few and all in Eastern […]

By FBC staff

Chinese pigs’ legs intercepted: CFIA

Feb. 20, 2008 at 2:08 pm CST

A Toronto-area international trading firm has been fined $10,000 over an attempt to bring undeclared pigs’ legs from China into Canada. A guilty plea was entered Jan. 9 on behalf of Merilin International Trading Inc. for violating federal animal health regulations, connected to the import of 1,600 kg of pork […]

By FBC staff

New Brunswick beekeepers get federal aid

Feb. 20, 2008 at 2:02 am CST

New Brunswick beekeepers who suffered “serious winter losses” to their bee colonies in 2006-07 will be eligible for a share of $150,000 in federal aid, the government announced Tuesday. The New Brunswick Honey Bee Revitalization Initiative is intended to help beekeepers rebuild colonies that suffered at least 25 per cent […]

By FBC staff