Insights and Stories on Livestock

Project seeks feed use for dried dairy byproducts

Feb. 19, 2008 at 2:13 pm CST

A B.C. whey and milk protein processor will run a pilot project to make dairy byproducts into ingredients for livestock feed and pet food. Vitalus Nutrition of Abbotsford on Friday announced the pilot project, along with $220,090 in federal government funding through the Advancing Canadian Agriculture and Agri-Food (ACAAF) program […]

Liberals’ task force urges short-term livestock aid

Feb. 19, 2008 at 12:48 am CST

By FBC staff

Viterra buys Oklahoma feed firm

Feb. 14, 2008 at 5:31 pm CST

By FBC staff

Cattle, hog herds dropping: StatsCan

Feb. 14, 2008 at 3:36 pm CST

By Statistics Canada

Menu Foods posts $62M net loss for 2007

Feb. 14, 2008 at 2:32 am CST

By FBC staff

No Alta. pigs bound to Hawaii, for now: WSPA

Feb. 14, 2008 at 2:02 am CST

The Alberta-to-Hawaii hog shipping route detailed in a report Tuesday by an international coalition of animal welfare groups as “one of the world’s cruelest transport routes” hasn’t seen any Canadian hogs since October last year, one of the groups said Wednesday. The World Society for the Protection of Animals, a […]

By FBC staff

NOFG manager to run P.E.I. hog board

Feb. 14, 2008 at 1:14 am CST

The plant manager for Prince Edward Island’s ill-fated NOFG pork processing plant has been hired as the new executive director for the Prince Edward Island Hog Commodity Marketing Board. Tim Seeber has over 30 years’ experience in the industry, currently as the plant manager for the Charlottetown facility that Quebec […]

By FBC staff

Agropur posts record earnings

Feb. 13, 2008 at 6:35 pm CST

Quebec dairy co-op Agropur reports that it’s still in expansion mode, having posted “new record” results in 2007. At its annual meeting Wednesday in Montreal, the company reported 2007 earnings (before patronage dividends and taxes) of $129.7 million on sales of $2.45 billion, up from $110 million on $2.3 billion […]

By FBC staff

Alta.-Hawaii hog shipments dubbed “worst” cruelty

Feb. 13, 2008 at 2:09 am CST

An international coalition of animal welfare groups has launched a humane transport campaign with what it claims is damning video footage of live hogs shipped by land and sea from Lethbridge, Alta., to Hawaii in inhumane conditions for pork labelled as a Hawaiian product. The groups, spearheaded by the World […]

By FBC staff

Halifax postpones urban poultry debate: CBC

Feb. 13, 2008 at 12:04 am CST

Halifax city council will put off further debate on the idea of allowing urban residents to keep backyard chickens until a report is completed on how other cities handle the issue, CBC reported Monday. That report isn’t expected for another six or seven months. The discussion came to council after […]

By FBC staff