Insights and Stories on Livestock

N.B., P.E.I. raise milk prices Feb. 1

Jan. 28, 2008 at 4:29 pm CST

Dairy farmers in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island will receive price increases of about 2.95 cents per litre on the milk they produce starting next month. The New Brunswick Farm Products Commission on Monday announced an average increase of 2.95 cents for producers, with no increase at the processor […]

Bison making comeback: StatsCan

Jan. 25, 2008 at 5:33 pm CST

By FBC staff

Feds put up $660K against FMD in South America

Jan. 25, 2008 at 3:44 pm CST

By FBC staff

Sask. hog farmers say TAP yanked back

Jan. 25, 2008 at 2:19 pm CST

By FBC staff

Prairie hog farmers can buy into N.D. hog plant

Jan. 25, 2008 at 11:59 am CST

By Alana Vannahme

Alta. climate plan eyes emission cuts for ag

Jan. 24, 2008 at 3:25 pm CST

The Alberta government’s climate change action plan is expected to include strategies to help farmers reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The action plan, a general outline of which was released Thursday by Environment Minister Rob Renner and Premier Ed Stelmach, focuses largely on development of a “made-in-Alberta” plan for carbon capture […]

By FBC staff

Ont. to fund farm help line, business training

Jan. 23, 2008 at 2:05 pm CST

Ontario will dip into a $20 million fund for livestock and horticulture producers to back business training and a phone-in help line. The provincial government on Wednesday said it will direct $300,000 from that funding to the Centre for Rural Leadership. The centre will use the money to identify and […]

By FBC staff

N.B. plans $3M loan program for hog farmers

Jan. 23, 2008 at 1:38 pm CST

New Brunswick will put up $3 million in loans for its hog farmers over the next two years, the agriculture department announced Wednesday. Citing the rising loonie, the “significant” drop in hog prices and escalating feed and fuel costs, the province said its program “will help stabilize the industry from […]

By FBC staff

COOL legislation remains a mystery

Jan. 23, 2008 at 12:15 pm CST

(Resource News International) — Uncertainty surrounding the U.S. government’s plans this fall for mandatory country-of-origin-labelling (COOL) continues to confound the Canadian livestock industry, a sector already reeling from the effects of higher costs and lower prices. Mandatory COOL “is still being debated and how it actually ends up in its […]

By Alana Vannahme

Mexico, Canada move toward cattle trade

Jan. 23, 2008 at 2:15 am CST

Mexican and Canadian ag officials are to meet next month to review the “final details” in protocols aimed at restoring trade in live Canadian cattle. Coming out of a meeting with Alberto Cárdenas Jimenez, Mexico’s secretary for agriculture and livestock, federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said Tuesday that technical officials […]

By FBC staff